Weather-meaning in the French Middle Ages
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Keywords

weather
environment
Le Debat d’entre le gris et le noir
La Chanson de Roland
Chrétien de Troyes
René d’Anjou

How to Cite

Tarnowski, A. (2021). Weather-meaning in the French Middle Ages. Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, 48(1), 5–15. https://doi.org/10.14746/strop.2021.481.001

Abstract

An analysis of “weather events” and their meaning in works of French medieval literature – La Chanson de Roland, Le Chevalier au lion, Le Roman de la rose, Le Livre du Cuer d’amours espris and Le Debat d’entre le gris et le noir – finds different forms of interaction between the outside world and human beings. Whether a connection between man and nature is mediated by God, set by the human arrangement of or incursion into a natural setting, or left so loose as to suggest nature’s indifference to human witness, weather contributes to the picture.

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