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Samson and Delilah in Medieval Insular French

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This chapter compares the different treatments of the story of Samson in three prose translations of the fourteenth century: an image cycle with rubrics in French produced for a royal owner, the Bible anglo-normande, and a summary translation that derives from the twelfth-century Poème. The images are a series of translations, adaptations and mistranslations. The last section examines the case made by Richard Ingham for viewing monastic schools as key players in the transmission of Anglo-Norman French until the Black Death.

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Léglu, C. (2018). Prose and Image. In: Samson and Delilah in Medieval Insular French. The New Middle Ages. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90638-6_4

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