JEHAN See also:

• JEHAN BODEL (died c. 1210)

BODEL (died c. 1210)  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French See also:

• TROUVERE

trouvere, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• ARRAS

Arras in the second See also:

• HALF

half of the 12th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . Very little is known of his See also:

• LIFE

life, but in 1205 he was about to start for the crusade when he was attacked by leprosy . In a touching poem called Le See also:

• CONGE

Conge (pr. by Meon in Recueil de fabliaux et conies, vol. i.), he bade farewell to his See also:

• FRIENDS, SOCIETY
• FRIENDS, SOCIETY OF

friends and patrons, and begged for a nomination to a leper See also:

• HOSPITAL (Lat. haspitalis, the adjective of hospes, host or guest)

hospital . He wrote Le Jeu de See also:

• SAINT (lat. sanctus, " holy ")

Saint See also:

• NICOLAS
• NICOLAS, SIR NICHOLAS HARRIS (1799–1848)

Nicolas, one of the earliest See also:

• MIRACLE (Lat. miraculum, from mirari, to wonder)

miracle plays preserved in French (printed in Monmerque and See also:

• MICHEL
• MICHEL, CLAUDE
• MICHEL, FRANCISQUE XAVIER (1809-1887)

Michel's Thedtre See also:

• FRANCAIS, ANTOINE, COUNT (1756-1836)

francais du moyen See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age, 1839, and for the See also:

• SOC

Soc. See also:

• DES

des bibliophiles francais, 1831); the Chanson des Saisnes (ed . F . Michel 1839), four pastourelles (printed in K . Bartsch's Altfranz . Romanzen and Pastourellen, See also:

• LEIPZIG

Leipzig, 1870); and probably, the eight fabliaux attributed to an unknown See also:

• JEAN

Jean Bedel . The See also:

• LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

legend of Saint See also:

• NICHOLAS
• NICHOLAS (1841– )
• NICHOLAS (or NICLAES), HENRY (or HENDRIK) (c. 1501-C. 158o)
• NICHOLAS, SIR EDWARD (1593-1669)
• NICHOLAS, ST

Nicholas had already formed the subject of the Latin Ludus Sancti Nicholai of See also:

• HILARIUS (fl. 1125)
• HILARIUS (HILARY), ST (c. 403-449)
• HILARIUS, or HILARUS (HILARY)

Hilarius . See also:

• BODEL, JEHAN (died c. 1210)

Bodel placed the See also:

• SCENE (Fr. scene, Lat. scaena, Gr. oflvil, a tent or booth, a stage or scene)

scene partly on a See also:

• FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
• FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
• FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
• FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
• FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
• FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
• FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
• FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
• FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
• FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
• FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)

field of See also:

• BATTLE

battle in See also:

• AFRICA
• AFRICA, ROMAN

Africa, where the crusaders perish in a hopeless struggle, and partly in a See also:

• TAVERN

tavern . The piece, loosely connected by the miracle of Saint Nicholas narrated in the See also:

• PROLOGUE (from Gr. 7rpo, before, and Myer, a word)

prologue, ends with a wholesale See also:

• CONVERSION (Lat. conversio, from convertere, to turn or ,change)

conversion of the See also:

• AFRICAN

African See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king and his subjects . The See also:

• DIALOGUE

dialogue in the tavern scenes is written in thieves' See also:

• SLANG

slang, and is very obscure .

The Chanson des Saisnes, Bodel's authorship of which has been called in question, is a chanson de geste belonging to the See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period of decadence, and is really a See also:

• ROMAN

roman d'aventures based on earlier legends belonging to the See also:

• CHARLEMAGNE [CHARLES THE GREAT] (c. 742-814)
• CHARLEMAGNE, JEAN ARMAND (1753–1838)

Charlemagne See also:

• CYCLE
• CYCLE (Gr. KUK)^os, a circle)

cycle . It relates the See also:

• WARS

wars of Charlemagne against the See also:

• SAXONS

Saxons under Guiteclin de Sassoigne (Witikind or See also:

• WIDUKIND
• WIDUKIND, or WITTEKIND (d. c. 807)

Widukind),with the second revolt of the Saxons and their final submission and conversion . Jehan Bodel makes no allusion to Ogier the Dane and many other personages of the Charlemagne cycle, but he mentions the defeat of See also:

• ROLAND
• ROLAND, LEGEND OF

Roland at Roncevaux . The See also:

• ROMANCE

romance is based on See also:

• HISTORICAL

historical fact, but is overlaid with romantic detail . It really embraces three distinct legends—those of the wars against the Saxons, of Charlemagne's rebellious barons, and of Baudouim and Sebille . The earlier French poems on the subject are lost, but the substance of them is preserved in the Scandinavian versions of the Charlemagne cycle (supposed to have been derived from See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• SOURCES

sources) known as the Karlamagnussaga (ed . Unger, See also:

• CHRISTIANIA (officially KRISTIANIA)

Christiania, 1860) and Keiser Karl See also:

• MAGNUS, HEINRICH GUSTAV (1802-1870)

Magnus Kronike (Romantisk Digtnung, ed . C . J . Brandt, See also:

• COPENHAGEN (Danish Kjobenhavn)

Copenhagen, 1877) . See also the See also:

• ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

article on Jehan Bodel by Paulin See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris in Hist. lilt. de la See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France, xx. pp . 605–638; Gaston Paris, Histoire poetique de Charlemagne (1865) ; See also:

• LEON
• LEON, LUIS PONCE DE (1527-1591)
• LEON, MOSES BEN SI
• LEON, or LEON DE LAS ALDAMAS

Leon See also:

• GAUTIER
• GAUTIER, EMILE THEODORE LEON (1832-1897)
• GAUTIER, THEOPHILE (1811-1872)

Gautier, See also:

• LES

Les Epopees francaises (revised edition, vol. iii. pp .

650-684), where there is a full See also:

• ANALYSIS (Gr. avci and Meta, to break up into parts)

analysis of the Chanson des Saisnes and a bibliography; H . See also:

• MEYER, CHRISTIAN ERICH HERMANN VON (18or-1869)
• MEYER, HEINRICH AUGUST WILHELM (1800-1873)
• MEYER, JULIUS LOTHAR (183o-1895)
• MEYER, KONRAD FERDINAND (1825-1898)
• MEYER, VICTOR (1848-1897)
• MEYER, [MARIE] PAUL HYACINTHE (184o- )

Meyer, in Ausgaben and Abhandlungen aus . der romanischen Philologie (See also:

• MARBURG
• MARBURG, COLLOQUY OF (Marburger Religionsgesprach)

Marburg, 1883), pp . 1-76, where 'its relation to the See also:

• REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest of the Charlemagne cycle is discussed .