Anglo-Norman Fiction / Romance / Novel / Short Story

Chivalric / Heroic Romances

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1. Medieval Epic
2. Contemporary Society
3. Folktale and Folklore
4. Classical Origins
5. Religious Practice
6. Courtly Love
7. Breton Lais: a type of writing developed by writer like Marie de France and Chretien de Troyes into the form known as Romance.
8. Romance is a literary genre flourished from 12th C. to 14th C. John Bodel, author of Chanson des Saisnes or Songs of Saxons classified medieval romances into:

1. Roman de Troie
2. Roman de Eneais : story taken fromm Virgil’s Aeneid
3. Roman de Alexander
4. Roman de Thebes : an adaptation of the latin poet Statius. The story depicts how the curse of oedipus was passed to his sons, Etiocles and polynices over who would rule thebes.

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1. Sir Degare – 14th C. Verse omance, The story of Diarge. (Similar to Oedipus), based upon a Breton Lay.
2. Sir Orfeo – 13th c. by unknown Celtic author, renews the myth of great musician Orpheus( in this poem Orfeo) and his wife Eurydice. Translated from a Breton Lay.
3. Emare
4. The Earl of Toulouse
5. Geste des Bretons(Deeds of the Britons) – Robert Wace
6. The knight of Cart – Chretien de Troyes.

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1. Stories deal with Cherlemange, Christian emperor of west – 9th Century and Songs of Deeds (Chansons de Geste)
2. Concerned with War and Heroism
3. Jene Anderson Jones Divided The Matter of France into two groups:

1. 1. Otuel – 1330 – in East Midlands
      1. About the battle fought between Christians and Saracans. Saracan Emperor Garcy. A duel between Roland and Otuel. 
   2. The Sage of Melayne –
      1. A part of Otuel group of Chrlemangne romances.
      2. 12 line rhyming stanzas.
      3. Protagonist – Bishop Turpin. The main story concerns how Lombardy was conquered by the Saracens.
   3. Roland and vernagu

4. 1. The Sowdone of Babylone
   2. The Sage of Melayne
   3. Sir Ferumbras.

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