Cantar de Mio Cid

Cantar de Mio Cid

by | Mar 19, 2019

Spain Composed: ca. 1140-1207 CE Earliest extant manuscript: ca. 1300 CE Anonymous Cantar de mio Cid The oldest and most intact of the three Spanish epic poems to survive in writing, the Cantar de mio Cid—known also as the Poema de mio Cid—recounts the deeds of a...
Renaut de Montauban

Renaut de Montauban

by | Feb 18, 2019

France late 12th century C.E.   Anonymous Renaut de Montauban (Les Quatre Fils Aymon)   Probably composed during the reign of Philip Augustus, known for toughness in his dealings with barons, the chanson de geste known as Renaut de Montauban encapsulates the...
Boccaccio, The Theseid

Boccaccio, The Theseid

by | Sep 18, 2018

Italy ca. 1340     Giovanni Boccaccio, Teseida (The Theseid)     The Teseida—or Teseida: Delle nozze d’Emilia (The Theseid: Of the nuptials of Emilia), the full title we derive at the closure of the text—is an epic poem written by Giovanni Boccaccio in the...
Boiardo, Orlando Innamorato

Boiardo, Orlando Innamorato

by | Aug 18, 2018

Italy Published: 1483 CE; 1495 CE Matteo Maria Boiardo, Orlando Innamorato Written for a fifteenth-century Italian court society hooked on Arthurian romance but also attuned to current world events, Boiardo’s Orlando Innamorato (Orlando in Love) charts a complex...
Martorell, Tirant lo Blanch

Martorell, Tirant lo Blanch

by | Aug 2, 2018

Spain First edition, 1490     Joanot Martorell Tirant lo Blanch​     A Valencian knight named Joanot Martorell replaced his sword with a pen on January 2, 1460, in order to narrate the adventures of a fictional knight. This undertaking resulted in...
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