Benoît de Sainte-Maure

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Be·noît de Sainte-Maure

 (bən-wä′ də săNt-môr′) fl. 12th century.
French trouvère whose Roman de Troie was a source for later works set during the Trojan War, such as Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde.
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Benoît de Sainte-Maure

(French bənwa də sɛ̃t mɔr)
n
(Biography) 12th-century French trouvère: author of the Roman de Troie, which contains the episode of Troilus and Cressida
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1453), is a French romance originating in Provence with recognisable topography and an unacknowledged intertextual connection with the French prose Roman de Troie tradition.
Nos detendremos solamente en dos textos particulares que se relacionan entre si en la medida en que hacen parte del mismo movimiento de regreso a la Antiguedad latina del siglo XII: el Roman de Troie de Benoit de Sainte-Maure (compuesto hacia 1165) y el Roman d'Alexandre en la version de Alexandre de Paris (compuesto hacia 1180).
In the first part the author has the novel idea of comparing the prologue of the Roman de Troie with the epistula accompanying the Latin version of Dares, followed by a similar treatment of the prologue of Herbort von Fritzlar's Liet von Troye in the light of the Roman de Troie.
Though Guido never acknowledges it, his Historia is actually a reworking of Benoit de Sainte-Maure's Roman de Troie of about 1160.
Her discussion of the Amazonian warrior is analyzed through French texts, notably Tristan de Nanteuil and Le Roman de Troie, and in the Italian versions of Chanson d'Aspremont and Rinaldo da Montalbano.
He moves as easily from the Roman de Troie to Titus Andronicus, as from Clarissa to Things Fall Apart.
Skeat ascribes it to Guido de Colonna's Historia Destructionis Troianae, completed in 1287.(2) The shift was already present in Guido's principal source, Le Roman de Troie by Benoit de Sainte-Maure (c.
Although Chaucer, represented by Troilus and Criseyde and the Knight's Tale, is Professor Nolan's final destination, more than twice as much space in her book is traversed in works which preceded Chaucer: the Roman d'Eneas, Roman de Thebes, Benoit de St Maure's Roman de Troie, and Boccaccio's II Filostrato and Teseide.
Author of an Old French poem in about 30,000 octosyllabic couplets, the Roman de Troie. Benoit's poem, a travesty of the story told in Homer's Iliad, is an immense baroque tapestry of Greek lore and fable.