Industry (literary studies)

A priest from the Convent of La Croix-en-Brie who is currently writing a new branch of the Roman de Renart . Miniature , around 1325-1350; BNF , Paris

The various authors of the old French novel de Renart , written between 1170 and 1250, referred to the respective resumption and continuation of the episodes already available to them as branch (French; German branch, branch ) . The term was adopted from literary studies and today describes the individual branches of tradition and also special forms of medieval stories, especially of French origin.

literature

• Helga Jauss-Meyer (Ed.): Le Roman de Renart . Munich, 1965; P. 7f.
• Gero von Wilpert : Subject dictionary of literature (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 231). 5th, improved and enlarged edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1969, DNB 458658170 , p. 101.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Manuscrits, français 1580 f. 34v; Illustration and commentary (French) from the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris (expositions.bnf.fr: Bestiaire du Moyen Âge , accessed on July 8, 2010)