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Old Occitan Literature: Occitan Literature, Chronique Romane, Se Canta, Song of the Albigensian Crusade, O Maria, Deu Maire, Old Occitan
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-05-03.
ISBN 9781155376080
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Occitan Literature, Chronique Romane, Se Canta, Song of the Albigensian Crusade, O Maria, Deu Maire, Old Occitan, Romance of Flamenca, Descort. Excerpt: The Chronique romane ("romance chronicle") or Chronicle of Montpellier (French : Chronique de Montpellier ) is an Old Occitan and Middle French chronicle of the city of Montpellier . The Chronique was probably made for the use of town officials, who would have wanted a record of local history for help in administration and in forging civic pride. The recording of town officials, such as council members, was also important, and in two manuscripts the Chronique is found along with the Charte de 1204 , a compilation of local customary law . Its annalistic format was typical of civic chronicles of the same period. Manuscripts The Chronique survived in five manuscripts at one point. The annals of Montpellier H119 , now among the fonds anciens (ancient sources) in the Bibliothèque de la faculté de médecine at Montpellier, cover the entire period 816 1364. The lost manuscript called Joubert , formerly of the Bibliothèque Royale at Paris , contained only the annals for 1088 1264. The Thalamus des archives du roi is now also lost, leaving Le grand Thalamus de Montpellier and Le petit Thalamus de Montpellier , which is kept in the municipal archives of Montpellier and covers the years 814 1604. All the manuscripts derive from a single source for they years they have in common. In general Le petit Thalamus has the most complete entries, though both it and Montpellier H119 were composed "negligently and hastily, with frequent orthographic and historical errors" and differ in the dating of many events. Orthographic evidence indicates that the manuscript Montpellier H119 is older than Le petit Thalamus . For example, the former spelling "Mon
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