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The essential concern of this study is an investigation of the impact of the Naccabean legend on the art of the Kiddle Ages, To this end, we have seen fit to divide our subject under two general headings, the first treating of the literary aspects of this theme and the second dealing with the visual tradition as manifested in particular in illuminated manuscripts. Part One is devoted to a consideration of two fundamental currents of mediaeval vernacular literature on the Maccabees that we have designated quite simply as the "secular" and the "religious." The secular current, best characterized by the epic fragments in Berne and the prolix romances of Gautier de Belleperche and Pierre du Riés, was essentially the province of the jongleur or lay poet, and the form and presentation of this poetry was invariably in conformity with that of epic and courtly literature. Moreover, the most salient feature of these poems was a concentration upon the implicit knightly and chivalric elements in the Maccabean histories; in short, those aspects of the biblical account most readily subject to interpretation as an exhortation to, and a justification for, the Crusades. The religious tradition of v
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- Author
- Robert Leon McGrath
- Publisher
- Princeton University
- Published
- 1963
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction