Armi & amori nella tradizione del testo. Da Chrétien de Troyes al Roman de Guiron

Love, arms, and textual transmission. From Chrétien de Troyes to the Roman de Guiron

The author investigates the couple armes & amour (love and prowess) in Old French Arthurian romances. In them – rather surprisingly – it appears very sparsely, if at all. The study affords a detailed examination of the contexts in which the two terms feature, both as co-occurrences and separately, in Chrétien’s romances and the Roman de Guiron. It discusses the morphological and semantic forms and uses of the two terms, accounting for the various lexical equivalents that appear in the polygenetic varia lectio, and which seem to issue from the scribes’ cultural backgrounds.

Keywords: Love and prowess, Textual variants, Arthurian romance