Alexandre de Bernay

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Li Romans d'Alixandre by Lambert le Tort and Alexandre de Bernay (German edition from 1846)

Alexandre de Bernay (also Alexander of Paris ; * around 1150 in Bernay ; † around 1190) was an author from Normandy who, with Li romans d'Alixandre, created one of the earliest vernacular versions of the Alexander romance, the so-called twelve-syllable version .

meaning

Instead of the eight- or ten-syllable verse as before, Bernay's Alexander novel was written in twelve syllables, so-called alexandrines , which were used throughout for the first time. That is why it was believed for a while that the Alexandrian meter ( verse alexandrin ) went back to Alexandre de Bernay and was named after him.

Alexandre de Bernay gave the Alexander novel its final form, which has been handed down to this day in fifteen to sixteen thousand Alexandrians. The division into four lines of tradition or “branches” ( branches ) also comes from him . As a compiler, Bernay integrated both the “Alexanderlied” by Albéric de Pisançon and the ten-syllable Alexander novel ( Alexandre decásyllabique ) and Alixandre en Orient des Lambert le Tort (old French: Lamberz li Tors) into his version.

Works

  • Li romans d'Alixandre. Composé par Alexandre de Paris & Lambert li Cort. ( Digitized online )
  • Roman ou la Geste d'Alexandre : 1) Le Voeu du Paon ; 2) Le Restor du Paon ; 3) Le Testament d'Alexandre ; 4) La Vengeance d'Alexandre .
  • Athis et Prophilas ( chivalric novel )
  • La belle Hélene de Constantinople

literature

  • Angelica Rieger: The Alexander novel. A chivalric novel about Alexander the Great. Text and picture book with illustrations from the manuscript 78 C 1 Kupferstichkabinett. Berlin / Wiesbaden 2006, pp. 165–170, ISBN 3-928127-97-7 .
  • Jan Cölln, Susanne Friede, Hartmut Wulfram (eds.) With the assistance of Ruth Finckh: Alexander Dichtungen im Mittelalter. Cultural self-determination in the context of literary relationships. Collaborative Research Center “Internationality of National Literature”, Wallstein Verlag Göttingen, August 2000, ISBN 978-3892441991 .

Web links

Commons : Alexander romance  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gert Pinkernell: Leaflets for an introduction to literary studies (French), Wuppertal 2002 .
  2. ↑ Ignaz Jeitteles : Aesthetic Lexicon. An alphabetic handbook on the theory of philosophy of the fine and fine arts. First volume A – K, Vienna 1835, p. 26.
  3. ↑ Angelica Rieger: The Alexander novel. A chivalric novel about Alexander the Great , p. 166.
  4. ↑ Dr. Karl Rosenkranz : Handbook of a general history of poetry. Halle 1832, p. 90.
personal data
SURNAME Alexandre de Bernay
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alexander of Paris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French author of the Middle Ages
DATE OF BIRTH around 1150
PLACE OF BIRTH Bernay
DATE OF DEATH around 1190