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Be·noît de Sainte-Maure

(bən-wä′ də săNt-môr′) fl. 12th century.

French trouvère whose Roman de Troie was a source for later works set during the Trojan War, such as Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde.

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Benoît de Sainte-Maure

(French bənwa də sɛ̃t mɔr)

(Biography) 12th-century French trouvère: author of the Roman de Troie, which contains the episode of Troilus and Cressida

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Nos detendremos solamente en dos textos particulares que se relacionan entre si en la medida en que hacen parte del mismo movimiento de regreso a la Antiguedad latina del siglo XII: el Roman de Troie de Benoit de Sainte-Maure (compuesto hacia 1165) y el Roman d'Alexandre en la version de Alexandre de Paris (compuesto hacia 1180).

Las traducciones de ovidio en la edad media: el lai de narcisse

Once Benoit de Sainte-Maure's twelfth-century elaboration of the sorrows of Homer's obscure Trojan prince and his treacherous lover Briseida had been put into Latin by the Sicilian jurist Guido delle Colonne, the tale of their deluded and faithless affection quickly gained popularity.

The Tragic Argument of 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Focusing on Benoit de Sainte-Maure's Roman de Troie, Bernart de Ventadorn's 'Can vei la lauzeta mover', and Guillaume de Lorris's Roman de la rose, the article argues that this counter-claim is caught up in a larger process of affirmation.

'I am not he': Narcissus and ironic performativity in medieval French literature

In the midst of the Renaissance of the Twelfth Century in Western Europe, one Benoit de Sainte-Maure composed his Roman de Troie, based on both Dares and Dicrys as authentic sources for this innovative romancer.

Heroic narratives from Homer to medieval Japan and France: cross-cultural perspectives

Though Guido never acknowledges it, his Historia is actually a reworking of Benoit de Sainte-Maure's Roman de Troie of about 1160.

"Deaf as Ulysses to the Siren's Song": The Story of a Forgotten Topos [*]

3 Le Roman de Troie par Benoit de Sainte-Maure, ed.

Calchas, renegade and traitor: Dares and Joseph of Exeter

Thought to be a condensed version of the French Roman de Troie by Benoit de Sainte-Maure, Guido's work was widely translated throughout Europe.

Guido, delle Colonne

Their story appeared for the first time in Dares Phrygius and Dictys Cretensis, then about the 12th century in Benoit de Sainte-Maure, and in the 13th century in Guido delle Colonne.