Noble Merchant: Problems of Genre and Lineage in Hervis de Mes by Catherine M. Jones

Noble Merchant: Problems of Genre and Lineage in Hervis de Mes

North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatu

Catherine M. Jones

192 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history literary poetry medium-paced
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Jones argues that the Old French epic Hervis de Mes offers valuable insight into the expansion and diversification of a prominent medieval genre. In the early thirteenth century, the chanson de geste diversified by assimilating plots, compositiona...

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