Jean Bodel

Jean Bodel (1165 - 1210) was a Trouvère which lived towards the end of the 12th century with Arras. This Poète wrote to a certain number of chansons de geste in Former French.

Bodel is the author of the Chanson of Saisnes reporting the war of the king Charlemagne against the Saxons and their chief Widukind that Bodel calls Guiteclin . He also wrote the Play Of Saint Nicolas which tells the history in the way in which Saint Nicolas forced Voleur S to restore a stolen treasure.

Jean Bodel was the known first nobody to have classified the legendary topics and the literary cycles known by the medieval Littérature in the Matière of Rome (tales of the traditional Antiquité), the Matière of Brittany (concerning the King Arthur), and the Matière of France (concerning Charlemagne and its Paladin S).

In 1202, Jean Bodel contracted the Lèpre and entered a Léproserie. In his Vacation , the leprous poet bids his farewell at his birthplace and his friends. The poem is not thus only any more on death, but on its death. Text founder which, with the Worms of dead the of Hélinand de Froidmont, opens the way with a personal poetry, that of the known as , whose Rutebeuf will be famous representing

One owes him the Chanson of Saxon the , published by france Michel, 2 volumes in-8, 1839 and a drama ( Vie of Saint Nicolas's Day ), published by the same one in the French Théâtre in the Middle Ages .

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