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    Joseph Bédier (28 January 1864 – 29 August 1938) was a French writer and historian of medieval France. Bédier was born in Paris, France, to Adolphe Bédier...
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    and emphasizes the impossibility of their romance. French medievalist Joseph Bédier thought all the Tristan legends could be traced to a single original:...
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  • audience for fabliaux is estimated differently by different critics. Joseph Bédier suggests a bourgeois audience, which sees itself reflected in the urban...
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    self-explanatory (Les chansons de croisade avec leurs mélodies, ed. Joseph Bédier & Pierre Aubry, Paris 1909, p. 171) Gaunt, Simon; Pratt, Karen (2016)...
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    needed] Bédier's doubts about the stemmatic method led him to consider whether it could be dropped altogether. As an alternative to stemmatics, Bédier proposed...
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    Émile Levasseur 1911–1929: Maurice Croiset [fr; ru; de] 1929–1936: Joseph Bédier 1937–1955: Edmond Faral 1955–1965: Marcel Bataillon 1966–1974: Étienne...
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  • courtly literature was omitted for the benefit of an English audience. Joseph Bédier Bowdlerized the title, as he did others in his edition of the Fabliaux...
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    based on the medieval story of Tristan and Iseult, as reconstructed by Joseph Bédier in 1900. Martin set excerpts of the novel to music for twelve vocalists...
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    original events. Another theory (largely discredited today), developed by Joseph Bédier, posited that the early chansons were recent creations, not earlier...
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    École pratique des hautes études in Paris, where he was a pupil of Joseph Bédier. From the late 1920s, he lived in England (one of his teachers was Mildred...
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