Hans-Erich Keller was a professor of French at The Ohio State University, where he taught Occitan and medieval French literature, and the history of French, Occitan, and Italian, as well as Romance linguistics.

• Contents Acknowledgments Introduction by Hans-Erich Keller Towards the Morphology of the Romance Epic by Ruth House Webber Textes medievaux et tradition: la chanson de geste est-elle une epopee? by William Calin Measuring Units of Poetic Discourse: Analogies between Laisse and Verse in the chanson de geste by Edward A. Heinemann A l'altre feiz: Narrative and Structural Patterns in the Chanson de Guillaume by Barbara Schurfranz Moorman On Structuring Baudouin de Sebourc by Larry S. Crist Au commencement etait l'ecole (de theologie): A New Paradigm for the Study of the Old French Epic by J. L. Roland Belanger L'hegemonie normande dans la Chanson de Roland et les Gesta Tancredi: De la Neustrie a la chretiente, ou Turold est-il nationaliste? by Jean Charles Payen Forest and Voyage: Signs of Sententia in the Entree d'Espagne by Nancy Bradley-Cromey Reconstructing the Lost Chanson de Basin: Was it a Couronnement de Charlemagne? by Constance B. Hieatt In Search of the Lost Epics of the Lower Rhone Valley by Alice M. Colby-Hall The Evolution of the Matter of Fierabras: Present State of Research by Andre de Mandach Le developpement de la Geste de Montauban en France jusqu'a la fin du moyen age by Francois Suard Ganelon's Defense by Emanuel J. Mickel Jr. Three Old French Magicians: Maugis, Basin, and Auberon by William W. Kibler Saracen Heroes in Adenet le Roi by Peter S. Noble On the Saracens in Early Italian Chivalric Literature by Antonio Franceschetti La imagen del rey en el Cantar de Mio Cid by Aristobulo Pardo The Economy of Mio Cid by Miguel Garci-Gomez Contributors

Hans-Erich Keller was a professor of French at The Ohio State University, where he taught Occitan and medieval French literature, and the history of French, Occitan, and Italian, as well as Romance linguistics.

• Contents Acknowledgments Introduction by Hans-Erich Keller Towards the Morphology of the Romance Epic by Ruth House Webber Textes medievaux et tradition: la chanson de geste est-elle une epopee? by William Calin Measuring Units of Poetic Discourse: Analogies between Laisse and Verse in the chanson de geste by Edward A. Heinemann A l'altre feiz: Narrative and Structural Patterns in the Chanson de Guillaume by Barbara Schurfranz Moorman On Structuring Baudouin de Sebourc by Larry S. Crist Au commencement etait l'ecole (de theologie): A New Paradigm for the Study of the Old French Epic by J. L. Roland Belanger L'hegemonie normande dans la Chanson de Roland et les Gesta Tancredi: De la Neustrie a la chretiente, ou Turold est-il nationaliste? by Jean Charles Payen Forest and Voyage: Signs of Sententia in the Entree d'Espagne by Nancy Bradley-Cromey Reconstructing the Lost Chanson de Basin: Was it a Couronnement de Charlemagne? by Constance B. Hieatt In Search of the Lost Epics of the Lower Rhone Valley by Alice M. Colby-Hall The Evolution of the Matter of Fierabras: Present State of Research by Andre de Mandach Le developpement de la Geste de Montauban en France jusqu'a la fin du moyen age by Francois Suard Ganelon's Defense by Emanuel J. Mickel Jr. Three Old French Magicians: Maugis, Basin, and Auberon by William W. Kibler Saracen Heroes in Adenet le Roi by Peter S. Noble On the Saracens in Early Italian Chivalric Literature by Antonio Franceschetti La imagen del rey en el Cantar de Mio Cid by Aristobulo Pardo The Economy of Mio Cid by Miguel Garci-Gomez Contributors