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My final thesis, based on study of primary and secondary sources, is focused on the idea of sovereign around 1300 AD. Old-Czech poem Alexandreida and German version Alexander of Ulrich von Etzenbach are used as primary repository of information. Thesis follows both of them and in their comparison shows, how the idea was formulated. Final thesis deals also with works of historians, literary historians and German studies related to its topic. The goal is not an linguistic analysis but to evaluate the poems as an historiographic source, on which we can study medieval notions of rulers and their role in society. Second main task for this final thesis is to reconstruct niveau of bohemian court surrounding King of Bohemia at the end of 13th century, where the poems were originally written. In the end, thesis describes so called "court culture" in the relation to both of Alexandrian poems and their influence in bohemia society.

O objetivo principal desta tese foi editar a segunda e a terceira partes da Crônica de Dom Duardos, escrita por Dom Gonçalo Coutinho no final do século XVI ou início do XVII, completando o trabalho iniciado por Raúl Cesar Gouveia Fernandes, que, em sua tese defendida em 2006, editara a primeira parte desse livro de cavalarias inédito. Dividimos o trabalho em três volumes: o primeiro contém a apresentação da obra, do autor e da edição; o segundo e terceiro volumes trazem, respectivamente, a segunda e terceira partes da Crônica de Dom Duardos. / The main objective of this thesis was to edit the second and third parts of the Crônica de Dom Duardos, written by Don Gonçalo Coutinho in the late sixteenth or early seventeenth centuries, completing the work begun by Raúl Cesar Gouveia Fernandes, who, in his thesis defended in 2006, edited the first part of this unpublished book of chivalry. We divided the work into three volumes: the first contains the presentation of the work, the author and edition, the second and third volumes bring, respectively, the second and third parts of the Crônica de Dom Duardos.

A Chanson de Roland, obra construída no século XIX como fundadora da literatura francesa, foi bastante explorada ao longo dos últimos 150 anos, muitas vezes com usos políticos, nem sempre expressos. Apesar de exaustivamente trabalhada pelos estudos literários, são quase inexistentes as investigações históricas sobre o seu conteúdo cristão e suas possíveis relações com a legitimação do combate contra os pagãos. Este trabalho investiga de que forma os pagãos são representados na gestas do final do século XI, e como estas constroem uma alteridade através da religião, da moralidade, da territorialidade, e da etnicidade. Investiga também como os cristãos são representados dentro uma unidade pan-européia, numa sobreposição das noções de império e cristandade, e como sua luta contra os pagãos é legitimada, e mesmo santificada, pelas obras, através do martírio dos seus cavaleiros. / The Song of Roland, explored in the nineteenth century as the main text of French literature, was heavily exploited over the past 150 years, often with political uses, not always expressed. Despite extensive work by literary studies, there hardly any historical research on its Christian content and its possible association with the legitimacy of the combat against the pagans. This work investigates how the pagans are represented in the gestas of the late eleventh century, and how they build an otherness through religion, morality, territoriality, and ethnicity.It also investigates how Christians are represented in a pan-European unity, in a superposition of the notions of empire and Christianity, and how their fight against the heathen is legitimated and even sanctified through the martyrdom of their knights.

Durante o Renascimento Italiano, em meio a uma situação de guerras e de incertezas, em uma sociedade cortesã permeada de relações aparentes motivadas por interesses políticos e pessoais, surge o Orlando Furioso, uma novela de cavalaria trabalhada durante quase trinta anos por Ludovico Ariosto, literato da corte de Ferrara que dedica seu poema a Ippolito dEste, seu senhor e mecenas. Embora se trate de uma novela de cavalaria. Ariosto deixa nela marcas que nos ajudam a entender um pouco da sociedade em que autor e obra estavam inseridos, por meio, sobretudo, das reflexões do narrador, o qual se coloca como personagem pertencente a uma sociedade historicamente determinada. Essa mistura espácio-temporal acaba concedendo um caráter paródico ao texto ariostesco. Diante disso, nosso estudo tem como objetivo analisar o comportamento contraditório da voz narrativa (que ora se mostra onisciente, ora se compara aos cavaleiros carolíngios errantes) e da principal personagem feminina do Furioso, Angélica, buscando relacionar tal comportamento com o meio social em que se dá a composição da obra e ao qual o próprio narrador demonstra pertencer / During Italian Renaissance, in the midst of a war situation and uncertainties, in a courtesan society permeated with apparent relationships motivated by political and personal interests comes Orlando Furioso, a novel of chivalry worked for nearly thirty years for Ludovico Ariosto, literati at the court of Ferrara, who dedicates his poem to Ippolito dEste, his master and patron. Despite being a novel of chivalry, Ariosto leaves marks on it that help us understand a little of the society in which author and work were inserted through mainly reflections of the narrator which arises as historically determined character; this spatiotemporal mixture just granted a parodic character to the text of Ariosto. Before that, our study aims to analyze the ambiguous behavior of narrative voice (that either shows itself omniscient, or compares itself to Carolingian knights errant) and the main female character of the Furioso, Angelica, seeking to relate such behavior to the social environment in which it gives the composition of the work to which the narrator demonstrates belong

This thesis offers an assessment of late medieval public response to the crusades through an investigation of emotional rhetoric in the Middle English crusading romances. It argues that the prevailing climate after the fall of Acre in 1291 and the evacuation of the last Christian strongholds in the Levant was characterized by a mixture of enduring enthusiasm and fascination, but also of concern, anxiety, and self-questioning, engendered by the enterprise's failures. The loss of the Holy Land had enduring repercussions on Christian crusading mindsets, marking a culminating point in Islam's seemingly relentless victories in wars believed to be ordained by God, and the collapse of Christendom's ambitions to secure lasting dominion over Christ's patrimony. The late thirteenth century was also a turning point in the history of insular romance, with the progressive displacement of Anglo Norman by Middle English, expanding the genre's audience. Reworking the emotional depictions of their sources, authors or adaptors of late medieval English crusading romances engaged with, and elicited reflection on, the cultural anxieties of the time: man's relation to God, the workings of divine providence, Christianity's ascendency over Islam, human agency, the connection between morality and fortune, the bearing of motives on actions, and the moral limitations of violence.

Reflexo de um processo histórico anterior, os romances de cavalaria fazem surgir no final do medievo ibérico uma nova moda literária, que mescla a tradição míticocavaleiresca com as mudanças sociais que caracterizam o movimentado período histórico. Estes libros se configuram durante quase um século como um sucesso de mercado, modelo de experiência máxima da nobreza cavalheiresca em um mundo cujos baluartes mostram-se movediços e sensíveis. Para além de conter uma coleção de mirabilia como objeto, estes romances são dispositivos maravilhantes que têm função e criam significações em um momento de experiência deslocada, num jogo de perspectiva. Sob a história das emoções, este trabalho se propõe a analisar a admiração no mundo ibérico quinhentista a partir da construção do dispositivo de maravilhamento. / Reflection from a previous historical process, the chivalric romances do arise at the end of the Iberian medieval a new literary fashion, blending the mythic-chivalric tradition with social changes that characterize the bustling historical period. These libros are configured for nearly a century as a market success is a model and height of a focused literature to chivalrous nobility, in a world where their moral and aesthetic strongholds show is unstable and sensitive. These novels are wrapped device boggling's appearances. Stemmed from the need to rethink the wonderful study. This study analyzes the admiration and the Iberian world from the sixteenth century construction of the wonder device.

O objetivo principal desta tese foi editar a segunda e a terceira partes da Crônica de Dom Duardos, escrita por Dom Gonçalo Coutinho no final do século XVI ou início do XVII, completando o trabalho iniciado por Raúl Cesar Gouveia Fernandes, que, em sua tese defendida em 2006, editara a primeira parte desse livro de cavalarias inédito. Dividimos o trabalho em três volumes: o primeiro contém a apresentação da obra, do autor e da edição; o segundo e terceiro volumes trazem, respectivamente, a segunda e terceira partes da Crônica de Dom Duardos. / The main objective of this thesis was to edit the second and third parts of the Crônica de Dom Duardos, written by Don Gonçalo Coutinho in the late sixteenth or early seventeenth centuries, completing the work begun by Raúl Cesar Gouveia Fernandes, who, in his thesis defended in 2006, edited the first part of this unpublished book of chivalry. We divided the work into three volumes: the first contains the presentation of the work, the author and edition, the second and third volumes bring, respectively, the second and third parts of the Crônica de Dom Duardos.

The principal objective of this paper is to analyze Sir Gawain's efforts to balance the conflicting requirements of the Code of Chivalry with the basic needs of human nature to develop insights into the Gawain's character. Using an amalgamated definition of chivalry as the standard, I will examine Gawain's attempts to achieve his goal of being the perfect chivalric knight, determine the nature of his obstacles, and analyze the development of his character. In trying to live up to perfection, Gawain discovers that he is not perfect.

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