Joseph Bédier

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Joseph Bédier
Born28 January 1864
Died29 August 1938 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 74)
Occupation
  • Writer
  • historian
Awards
  • Corresponding Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America (1927) Edit this on Wikidata

Joseph Bédier (28 January 1864 – 29 August 1938) was a French writer and historian of medieval France.

Biography

Bédier was born in

Université de Fribourg, Switzerland (1889–1891) and the Collège de France
, Paris (c. 1893).

Modern theories of the

chansons de geste are based on two of Bédier's studies.[citation needed
]

Bédier revived interest in several important old French texts, including

Académie française
from 1920 until his death.

His Le roman de Tristan et Iseut was translated into Cornish by A. S. D. Smith, into English by Hilaire Belloc and Paul Rosenfeld, and into German by Rudolf G. Binding. In 2013, a new English translation by Edward J. Gallagher was published by Hackett Publishing Company.

Bédier was also joint editor of the two-volume Littérature française, one of the most valuable modern general histories of French literature. He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1929[1] and an International Member of the American Philosophical Society in 1937.[2]

Bédier died in Le Grand-Serre, France. He was awarded the Grand-Croix de la Legion d'honneur in 1937.

Works

  • Le lai de l’ombre (1890)
  • Le fabliau de Richeut (1891)
  • Les fabliaux, études de littérature populaire et d’histoire littéraire du Moyen Âge (1893)
  • De Nicolao Museto (gallice Colin Muset), francogallico carminum scriptore (1893)
  • Le roman de Tristan et Iseut (1900)
  • Le roman de Tristan par Thomas (2 vol., 1902–1905)
  • Études critiques (1903)
  • Les deux poèmes de la folie Tristan (1907)
  • Légendes épiques, recherches sur la formation des chansons de geste (1908–1913)
  • Les chansons de croisade (1909)
  • Les chansons de Colin Muset (1912)
  • Les crimes allemands d’après les témoignages allemands (1915)
  • Comment l’Allemagne essaie de justifier ses crimes? (1915)
  • Joseph Bédier and Paul Hazard: Histoire de la littérature francaise. 2 Vol. (1923/24)
  • L’effort français (1919)
  • La chanson de Roland (critical edition, 1920)
  • La chanson de Roland (after the Oxford manuscript, 1922)
  • Commentaires sur la chanson de Roland (1927)

Use of military diaries

Bédier used the

sexual and sadistic crimes by the German soldiers.[3]

Uses

Fran Martin set chapters from Le roman de Tristan et Iseut to music as Le Vin herbé first performed in 1942, conceived as an oratorio for 12 vocalists, seven strings and piano, which was staged in 1948 for the Salzburg Festival.

References

  1. ^ "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter B" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 29 May 2011.
  2. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2023-05-30.
  3. ^ Horne, John, and Alan Kramer. German "Atrocities" and Franco-German Opinion, 1914: The New Evidence of German Soldiers' Diaries. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1994.

Further reading

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