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SUMMARY:Roland and his Enemies: a look into the scholarly debate on La Cha
 nson de Roland\, 1830-1900 - Isabel DiVanna
DTSTART:20110504T120000Z
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DESCRIPTION:To a twenty-first century scholar\, the reasons why Roland is 
 a symbol of\nFrench nationalism may seem evident. In life as well as in le
 gend\, Roland\nwas a young soldier and nephew of Charlemagne. In the eleve
 nth-century epic\npoem La Chanson de Roland\, the young man had the misfor
 tune (or the honour)\nof dying in combat against the Unfaithful in order t
 o preserve the moral\nand religious values of his sweet France. How much o
 f this idea of Roland\ncan be found in the original epic poem\, and how mu
 ch of it is a fabrication\nof nineteenth-century historians and literary c
 ritics whose agendas\ninvolved a whole lot more than the simple investigat
 ion of medieval texts?\nThis talk will try to answer this question by look
 ing at nineteenth-century\neditions of Roland to understand the changes in
  the hero as well as in the\nlegend of Roland in light of the convoluted p
 olitical history of France.\n
LOCATION:Combination Room\, Wolfson College
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