A text transformed : prose textuality and notions of history in the thirteenth-century version of the Roman de Thèbes [thesis]

Introduction - 1 Chapter One: The Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César and Universal History - 14 Chapter Two: Christian Didacticism and Verse Moralizations - 42 Chapter Three: Thèbes - 65 Chapter Four: Prose: The New Literacy - 85 Chapter Five: The devise of Thèbes - 115 Chapter Six: Narrative Voice and Auctoritas - 146 Conclusion: Thèbes as Transformation - 171 Appendix I: Verse passages - 185 Appendix II: Summary of the prose Thèbes - 210 Works Consulted - 217