rie de France and Ruteboeuf. Drama. Adam de la
Halle. _Robin et Marion._ The _Jeu de la Feuillie_. Comparison of
them. Early French prose. Laws and sermons. Villehardouin. William of
Tyre. Joinville. Fiction. _Aucassin et Nicolette_ 265

CHAPTER VIII.

ICELANDIC AND PROVENCAL.

Resemblances. Contrasts. Icelandic literature of this time mainly
prose. Difficulties with it. The Saga. Its insularity of manner. Of
scenery and character. Fact and fiction in the sagas. Classes and
authorship of them. The five greater sagas. _Njala._ _Laxdaela._
_Eyrbyggja._ _Egla._ _Grettla._ Its critics. Merits of it. The parting
of Asdis and her sons. Great passages of the sagas. Style. Provencal
mainly lyric. Origin of this lyric. Forms. Many men, one mind. Example
of rhyme-schemes. Provencal poetry not great. But extraordinarily
pedagogic. Though not directly on English. Some troubadours. Criticism
of Provencal 333

CHAPTER IX.

THE LITERATURE OF THE PENINSULAS.

Limitations of this chapter. Late Greek romance. Its difficulties as a
subject. Anna Comnena, &c. _Hysminias and Hysmine._ Its style. Its
story. Its handling. Its "decadence." Lateness of Italian. The
"Saracen" theory. The "folk-song" theory. Ciullo d'Alcamo. Heavy debt
to France. Yet form and spirit both original. Love-lyric in different
European countries. Position of Spanish. Catalan-Provencal.
Galician-Portuguese. Castilian. Ballads? The _Poema del Cid_. A
Spanish _chanson de geste_. In scheme and spirit. Difficulties of its
prosody. Ballad-metre theory. Irregularity of line. Other poems.
Apollonius and Mary of Egypt. Berceo. Alfonso el Sabio 375

CHAPTER X.

CONCLUSION 412

INDEX 427

THE FLOURISHING OF ROMANCE

AND THE

RISE OF ALLEGORY.

CHAPTER I.

THE FUNCTION OF LATIN.

REASONS FOR NOT NOTICING THE BULK OF MEDIAEVAL LATIN
LITERATURE. EXCEPTED DIVISIONS. COMIC LATIN LITERATURE.
EXAMPLES OF ITS VERBAL INFLUENCE. THE VALUE OF BURLESQUE.
HYMNS. THE "DIES IRAE." THE RHYTHM OF BERNARD. LITERARY
PERFECTION OF THE HYMNS. SCHOLASTIC PHILOSOPHY. ITS
INFLUENCE ON PHRASE AND METHOD. THE GREAT SCHOLASTICS.

[Sidenote: _Reasons for not noticing the bulk of mediaeval Latin
literature._]

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