See also:HOUDENC (or HOUDAN), RAOUL DE
, 12th-See also:century See also:French See also:trouvere, takes his name from his native See also:place, generally identified with Houdain (See also:Artois), though there are twelve places bearing the name in one or other of its numerous variants
.
It has been suggested that he was a See also:- MONK (O.Eng. munuc; this with the Teutonic forms, e.g. Du. monnik, Ger. Witch, and the Romanic, e.g. Fr. moine, Ital. monacho and Span. monje, are from the Lat. monachus, adaptedfrom Gr. µovaXos, one living alone, a solitary; Own, alone)
- MONK (or MONCK), GEORGE
- MONK, JAMES HENRY (1784-1856)
- MONK, MARIA (c. 1817—1850)
monk, but from the scattered hints in his writings it seems more probable that he followed the See also:trade of jongleur and recited his chansons, with small success apparently, in the houses of the See also:great
.
He was well acquainted with See also:Paris, and probably spent a great See also:part of his See also:life there
.
His undoubted See also:works are: Le Songe d'enfer, La Voie de paradis, Le See also:Roman See also:des eles (pr. by A
.
See also:Scheler in Trouveres belges, New
See also:Series, 1897) and the See also:romance of Meraugis de Portlesguez, edited by M
.
Michelant (1869) and by Dr M
.
Friedwagner (See also:Halle, 1897)
.
See also:Houdenc was an imitator of Chretien de See also:Troyes; and Huon de Merl, in his Tournoi de l'antechrist (1226) praises him with Chretien in words that seem to imply that both were dead
.
Meraugis de Portlesguez, the See also:hero of which perhaps derives his name from Lesguez, the See also:port of See also:Saint Brieuc in See also:Brittany, is a roman d'aventures loosely attached to the Arthurian See also:cycle
.
See Gaston Paris in Hist. lift. de la See also:France, See also:xxx
.
22o-237; W
.
See also:Zingerle, Uber Raoul de Houdenc and See also:seine Werke (See also:Erlangen, 188o); and O
.
Boerner, Raoul de Houdenc
.
Eine stilistische Untersuchung (1885)
.
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