Chansons de geste, epic and chilvary romance: the elevated poetic genres in the Iberian narratives of Trojan matter

• Grant number: 23/03431-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Master's degree
• Start date: September 04, 2023
• End date: March 03, 2024
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Other Vernacular Literatures
• Principal Investigator: Adma Fadul Muhana
• Grantee: Fabiana Nicoli Dias
• Supervisor: Ricardo Pichel
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Universidad de Alcalá (UAH), Spain
• Associated to the scholarship: 22/01997-8 - Chansons de geste, epic and chilvary romance: the meanings and uses of elevated poetic genres in Historia troyana of Pedro I of Castile, BP.MS

Abstract

This project integrates the master's research related to the FAPESP process 2022/01997-8, from which it is proposed to recognize the role of meanings and uses of epic, chanson de geste and roman in the formation of Pedro I from Castile's Historia troiana. This 14th century knightly narrative emulates its main model - a lost version of Alfonso XI's Crónica troyana -, by adding supplementary material from a certain unknown copy of Alfonso X's General estoria. In order to carry out this study more efficiently, we request the approval of an internship in Spain, under the supervision of Prof. PhD. Ricardo Pichel Gotérrez, from the University of Alcalá, for more accurately verifying the reformulations of the elevated poetic genres of Greek, Latin and vernacular culture in the 14th century of the Iberian Peninsula, mainly with regard to the rhetorical-poetic practices that are part of the transmission and composition of Trojan stories manuscripts. As investigated in the first months of the research, the appropriation of classical material, especially during the 13th and 14th centuries, stems from the articulation between the authority attributed to them, the allegorical interpretations and the defense of the constitutive historical truth of events about the city, readings verified in Historia troiana. Following, it is necessary to continue the study of ancient and medieval rhetorical-poetic treatises that address the genres in question, as well as of the contact with examples of Trojan material (and their editions) present in libraries and collections in Spain, with the aim to obtain a more general understanding about the place occupied by such works in the 14th century peninsular context. (AU)