The Medieval Tradition of Thebes: History and Narrative in by Dominique Battles
By Dominique Battles
The 1st complete examine of the classical legend of Thebes within the center a long time.
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Consequently, medieval readers received a warrant for reading, enjoying and learning from a poem of incomparable violence and cruelty. Statius’ position as a moral authority for medieval readers also takes the form of sententiae (“sentences”), or lines of worldly wisdom excerpted from various secular and sacred texts. 44 One twelfth-century florilegium (Paris, Bib. Nat. lat. 151) 45 [A starveling realm was their cause of battle…]
In the Roland, the Saracens remark at the white beards of the Franks spread over their hauberks (Roland 3087), and Charlemagne is prominent for his large, white beard (3654). Another Greek soldier, Alexander of Moncensis (4812), is identified as the son of Boniface from Lombardy, based on Boniface of Montferrat, a prominent figure in the Fourth Crusade. Parthenopeus, one of the seven commanders, rides a horse from Spain (4125) and dresses “en guise de François” (4124) [“in the manner of a Frenchman”], as does Meleazar of Margerye (8302).
This repetition in the chronicles serves, among other things, to convey the full extent of enemy territory. Similarly, in the Thèbes, Montflor extends Ethïoclés’ domain; he controls an entire region, not just a single city. By prefacing the siege of Thebes with the preliminary siege of Montflor, the Thèbes imitates the narrative terrain of the crusade chronicle. Furthermore, the poet describes the tactics of siege warfare in the same detail that we find in the chronicles. For example, Thideüs summons engineers to build siege engines (3270-80).