Download or read book The Character Types in the Old French Chansons De Geste (Classic Reprint) written by William Wistar Comfort and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-03 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Character Types in the Old French Chansons De Geste The new view-point has been found in the characters Which figure in the chansons dc geste. Their conventionality' and unvarying recurrence enable us, without violence, to divide them conveniently into types. Each type Of charac ter will be studied chronologically, so far as possible, and the significance of its evolution will be noted. With the belief that such an exposition along six different lines will contribute to our knowledge of the mediaeval man in his relation to literary expression, we pass to our examination of the poems themselves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.