[ { "id": "https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/81yy4-q3r10", "eprint_id": 82383, "eprint_status": "archive", "datestamp": "2023-08-19 11:54:27", "lastmod": "2023-10-17 22:14:45", "type": "article", "metadata_visibility": "show", "creators": { "items": [ { "id": "Benton-J-F", "name": { "family": "Benton", "given": "John F." } } ] }, "title": "\"Nostre Fran\u00e7ais n'unt talent de fu\u00efr\": The Song of Roland and the Enculturation of a Warrior Class", "ispublished": "pub", "full_text_status": "public", "note": "A former publication of the American-Canadian Branch of the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Rencesvals, Olifant published articles dedicated to the study of the Romance epic from 1973 to 2012.\n\nThis is a revised version of a paper presented on October 6, 1978 at the\nconference Roncevaux 778-1978 held at the Pennsylvania State University. The\nauthor wishes to express his gratitude to the organizers and the participants at that\nfruitful gathering. In addition, he owes special thanks to Professor Joseph J. Duggan\nof the University of California at Berkeley for generous bibliographic and critical\nassistance, and to Professor James W. Greenlee of Northern Illinois University for\nprimary research on modern aspects of the topic. Besides the older, standard tools of\nRoland scholarship, I have made extensive and generally unacknowledged use of\nDuggan's A Guide to Studies on the \"Chanson de Roland,\" Research Bibliographies\nand Checklists, 15 (London, 1976) with mimeographed supplements supplied by\nthe compiler, and Gerard J. Brault, The Song of Roland: An Analytical Edition, 2\nvols. (University Park, Pa., and London, 1978).\n\n
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", "abstract": "[Introduction] During the German siege of Paris in December 1870, a learned and patriotic medievalist, Gaston Paris, delivered a set of lectures at the\nColl\u00e8ge de France on La Chanson de Roland et la nationalit\u00e9 fran\u00e7aise. It would now be timely for a specialist in contemporary history and literature\nto prepare another study on the Song of Roland and modern nationalism, particularly in the period of World War I. Influential historians have\nblamed the newspapers and the popular press for inflaming public opinion on the eve of the Great War. That \"yellow journalism\" helped to indoctrinate\nthe masses who marched enthusiastically to war cannot be doubted, but scholars and professors also played their part in the movement, and\nwhile the press harangued the future foot soldiers, the academic elite was addressing the officer class. Every poilu knew about Joan of Arc, but the\nofficers had also learned in their lyc\u00e9es of the valor of the heroes of Roncevaux. While the greater part of this paper is devoted to the social and\npolitical values conveyed by the Chanson in the Middle Ages, the use of literature to buttress values can conveniently be illustrated by some reference\nto the Song in more modern times.", "date": "1979", "date_type": "published", "publication": "Olifant", "volume": "6", "number": "3-4", "publisher": "Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Rencesvals (American-Canadian Branch)", "pagerange": "237-258", "id_number": "CaltechAUTHORS:20171016-141954381", "official_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20171016-141954381", "rights": "No commercial reproduction, distribution, display or performance rights in this work are provided.", "primary_object": { "basename": "19058-42156-1-SM.pdf", "url": "https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/81yy4-q3r10/files/19058-42156-1-SM.pdf" }, "resource_type": "article", "pub_year": "1979", "author_list": "Benton, John F." }, { "id": "https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/cjrby-e2g98", "eprint_id": 83708, "eprint_status": "archive", "datestamp": "2023-08-19 09:13:46", "lastmod": "2023-10-17 23:26:25", "type": "article", "metadata_visibility": "show", "creators": { "items": [ { "id": "Benton-J-F", "name": { "family": "Benton", "given": "John F." } }, { "id": "Prosperetti-Ercoli-F", "name": { "family": "Prosperetti Ecroli", "given": "Fiorella" } } ] }, "title": "The style of \"historia calamitatum\": A preliminary test of the authenticity of the correspondence attributed to Abelard and Heloise", "ispublished": "pub", "full_text_status": "restricted", "note": "\u00a9 1975 University of California Press. \n\nThe authors are grateful to the California Institute of Technology for financial support for the preparation of this paper and to Dr. Andrea Prosperetti for technical assistance and encouragement. A condensed version was presented at the Ninth Conference on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan on 9 May 1974; we appreciate the criticism and advice of members of that audience and of many others. \n\nFormerly SSWP 44.", "abstract": "In 1972 at the International Colloquium on Peter Abelard and Peter the Venerable held at the abbey of Cluny, Professor Jacques Monfrin called for a study of the correspondence of Abelard and Heloise which would make use of machine-readable texts and recently developed techniques for computer-assisted tests of authenticity and the attribution of authorship. This paper is not a response to that request for a full-scale investigation of the correspondence, for it is based on conventional hand counting of only a few words and constructions. Instead, this is a modest preliminary study to test the validity of earlier statements about the style of the correspondence and its authorship, to attempt to determine whether a computer-assisted investigation would be worth the cost and effort, and to consider how such a study might best be undertaken.", "date": "1975", "date_type": "published", "publication": "Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies", "volume": "6", "publisher": "University of California Press", "pagerange": "59-86", "id_number": "CaltechAUTHORS:20171205-154257236", "issn": "0083-5897", "official_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20171205-154257236", "rights": "No commercial reproduction, distribution, display or performance rights in this work are provided.", "funders": { "items": [ { "agency": "Caltech" } ] }, "doi": "10.1484/J.VIATOR.2.301605", "resource_type": "article", "pub_year": "1975", "author_list": "Benton, John F. and Prosperetti Ecroli, Fiorella" } ]