Chapter II: Part I: General

CHAPTER I.
THE LANGUE D’OC.

Decline of classic language 3

Its mixture with German dialects 3

Derivation of Romance languages 4

Provençal branch 5

Its limits 5

Its relations to the sister languages 6

Its dialects 7

Its perfection by the Troubadours 8

Its decline 8

CHAPTER II.
EARLY POPULAR EPICS.

The North-French epic 10

The cycles of Arthur and Charlemagne 11

The popular epic chanted 11

Ferabras 12

Girart de Rossilho 12

CHAPTER III.
THE ARTISTIC EPIC.

Roman de Jauffre 14

Flamenca 15

CHAPTER IV.
OTHER NARRATIVE AND DIDACTIC POEMS.

Castia-Gilos 27

Lay of the Parrot 27

Essenhamen de la Donzela 28

Rhymed chronicle of Navarre 28

The Song of the Crusade 30

Tale of the Heretic 31

Legends 35

Boethius 35

Corbiac’s Tezaur 37

Breviari d’Amor 37

The biographies of the Troubadours 39

Their authors 39

CHAPTER V.
APOCRYPHA.

Provençal literature chiefly lyrical 42

Fauriel’s theory 42

Aversion to epic poems 42

Arnaut Daniel an epic poet 43

His praise by Dante 45

His lost epic of ‘Lancelot’ 47

His obscurity 48

An anecdote from his life 49