Cantilène

A cantilène ( French "Singsang", possibly from Italian cantilena "Singerei" to Latin cantilena ) is a French sung poem that was cultivated in the High Middle Ages and was used to worship saints . A well-known example is the Cantilène de Sainte Eulalie , written anonymously around 880 .

The existence of the epic- lyric heroic song of the same name as the forerunner of the chanson de geste is disputed today.

literature

• Albert Louis Rossi: Vernacular authority in the late ninth century . (Dissertation) Princeton 1986
• Roger Berger: Les séquences de sainte Eulalie . Geneva 2004. ISBN 2-600-00880-2
• Marie-Pierre Dion: La Cantilène de sainte Eulalie . Lille 1990. ISBN 2-902133-02-2