Studies on the various branches and significant figures of the Roman de Renart and on its continuations, imitations, adaptations... from the 13th to the 20th century: latest branches, recasts of the old novel, works for young people and comics. Roman de Renart is a medieval set of animal stories written in old French and in verse. These disparate stories, written by different authors, were called “branches” from the Middle Ages. They are composed mainly in octosyllables with flat rhymes. The oldest branches (around 1174) are attributed to a certain Pierre de Saint-Cloud. From the 13th century, the branches were grouped into collections, providing a certain unity. The authors of the Roman de Renart are mostly anonymous but a few are identified: Pierre de Saint-Cloud, Richard de Lison, and a priest from Croix-en-Brie. Le Roman de Renart (with the definite article) is the title of modern editions, which consider this set as a coherent work. This tells of the tricks and violence of which the goupil Renart is the author, at the expense of the other animals of the kingdom. The animals are presented with anthropomorphic characteristics, but living in contact with humans. It is from the proper name of a Paris lawyer that the author wanted to mock, Renart (from the Germanic Reinhard), that the common name fox comes, which replaced the word goupil (from the Latin vulpes) in the French language. - [Publisher]

Language: French

978286878269; DOI: 10.4000/crm.7723