See also:RUTEBEUF, or RUSTEBUEF (fl. 1245-1285)
, See also:French irouvere, was See also:barn in the first See also:half of the 13th See also:century
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His name is nowhere mentioned by his contemporaries
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He. frequently plays in his See also:verse on the word See also:Rutebeuf, which was probably a nom de guerre, and is variously explained by him as derived from See also:rude &zuf and rude a;uvre
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He was evidently of humble See also:birth, and he was a Parisian by See also:education and See also:residence
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Paulin See also:Paris thought that he began See also:life in the lowest See also:rank of the See also:minstrel profession as a jongleur
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Some of his poems have autobiographical value
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In Le Mariage de Rutebeuf, he says that on the 2nd of See also:January 1261 he married a woman old and ugly, with neither See also:dowry nor amiability.' In the Complaints de Rutebeuf he details a See also:series of misfortunes which have reduced him to abject destitution
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In these circumstances he addresses himself to See also:Alphonse, See also:comte de See also:Poitiers, See also:brother of See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis IX., for See also:relief
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Other poems in the same vein reveal that his own miserable circumstances were chiefly due to a love of See also:play, particularly a See also:game played with See also:dice; which was known as griesche
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It would :seem that his See also:distress could not be due" to lack of patrons, for his metrical life of See also:Saint See also:Elizabeth of See also:Hungary was written by See also:request of See also:Erard de Valery, who wished to See also:present it to See also:Isabel, See also:queen of See also:Navarre; and he wrote elegies on the deaths of Anceau de 1'Isle See also:Adam, the third of the name, who died about 1251, Eude, comte de See also:Nevers (d
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1267), See also:Thibaut V. of Navarre (d
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1270), and Alphonse, comte de Poitiers (d
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1271), which were probably paid for by the families of the personages celebrated
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In the Pauvrete de Rutebeuf he addresses Louis IX. himself
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The piece which is most obviously intended for popular recitation is the Dit de l'Herberie, a dramatic See also:monologue in See also:prose and verse supposed to be delivered by a See also:quack See also:doctor
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Rutebeuf was ' also a See also:master in the verse See also:conte, and the five of his fabliaux that have come down to us are See also:gay and amusing
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The See also:matter,' it may be added, is sufficiently See also:gross
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The adventures of See also:Frere Denyse le cordelier, and of " la See also:dame qui alla trois fois autour du moaner," find a See also:place in the Cent Nouvelles nouvelles
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Rutebeuf's serious See also:work as a satirist probably See also:dates from about• 1260
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His See also:chief topics are the iniquities of the friars, and the See also:defence of the See also:secular See also:clergy of the university of Paris against their encroachments; and he delivered a series of eloquent and insistent poems (1262, 1263, 1268, 1274) exhorting princes' and See also:people to take See also:part in the See also:crusades
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He was a redoubtable See also:champion of the university of Paris in its See also:quarrel with the religious orders who were supported by See also:Pope See also:Alexander IV., and he boldly defended See also:Guillaume de Saint-Amour when he was driven into See also:- EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)
exile
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The libels, indecent songs and rhymes condemned by the pope to be burnt together with the Perils See also:des derniers temps attributed to Saint-Amour, were probably the work of Rutebeuf
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The See also:satire of Renart le Bestourne, which borrows from the Reynard See also:cycle little but the names under which the characters are disguised, was directed, according to Paulin Paris, against See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip the Bold
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To his later years belong his religious poems, and also the Voie de Paradis, the description of a See also:dream, in the manner of the See also:Roman de la See also:Rose
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The best work of Rutebeuf is to be found in his satires and verse conies
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A See also:miracle play of his, Le Miracle de See also:Theophile, is one of the earliest dramatic pieces extant in French
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The subject of See also:Theophilus, the Cilician 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 who made a pact with the See also:devil, which was afterwards returned to him by the intervention of the Virgin, was a See also:familiar one with the See also:story-tellers of the See also:middle ages
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Rutebeuf can claim no priority in the choice of the subject, which had been treated dramatically in the Latin piece ascribed to the See also:nun Hroswitha of See also:Gandersheim, but his piece has considerable importance in dramatic See also:history
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The Euvres of Rutebeuf were edited by Achille Jubinal in 1839 (new edition, 1874) ; a more See also:critical edition is by Dr Adolf Kressner
' It has been suggested that Brunetto See also:Latini was thinking of Rutebeuf when he wrote in his Li',re du Tresor: " Le Rire, le jeu, voila la See also:vie du jongleur, qui se moque de lui-mcme, de sa femme, de ses enfants, de tout le monde."
(Rusiebuef's Gedichte; Wolfenbiittel, 1885)
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See also the See also:article by Paulin Paris in Hist. lilt. de la See also:France (1842), vol. xx. pp
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719-83, and Rutebeuf (1891), by M
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See also:Leon Cledat, in the Grands Ecrivains See also:francais Series
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