Byzantium and France : the twelfth-century renaissance and the birth of the medieval romance

Introduction 1 I. Alienor and Michael: The Visit 5 II. Ysminias and Ysmene: The Byzantine Romance 15 III. Habrocomes and Anteia: The Hellenistic Antecedents 22 IV. Dionysos and Demeter: The Mystery Cults 28 V. Paul and Thecla: The Christianized Romance 43 VI. Anthony and Symeon: The Hagiographic Connection 56 VII. Eustache and Magdalen: The Translation of Hagiography 75 VIII. Charlemagne and Irene: Circumstances in the West 90 IX. Otto and Theophano: The Beginning of a Renaissance 126 X. The Crossroads: Norman Sicily 133 XI. Floire et Blancheflor: The Birth of the Old French Romance 154 XII. Tristan and Iseult, The Arthurian Cycle, and the Flowering of the Old French Romance 192 XIII. Erec and Enide: Chretien's Arthurian Romances 215 XIV. The Grail Castle Revisited 232 XV. The Passing of Alienor and the Conquest of Constantinople 289 Epilogue 300 Conclusions 305 Bibliography 307 Vita 326