Renaud de Beaujeu

For the work 'Le Bel Inconnu', see Gingalain.

Renaud de Beaujeuor Renaut de Bâgé or de Baugé is the name of a medieval French author of Arthurian romance. He is known for only one major work, Le Bel Inconnu, the Fair Unknown, a poem of 6266 lines[1] in Old French that was composed in the late-twelfth or early-thirteenth century.[3][5][7] Renaud left us his name at the end of this poem: 'Renals de Biauju, or, as usually written, Renaud de Beaujeu',[8] In modern French he is known as Renaut de Beaujeu. Le Bel Inconnu survives in only one manuscript: Chantilly, Bibliothèque du Château/Musée Condé, 472.[6][9]

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  2. ^ Fresco ed. & Donager tr. (1992), p. xi.
  3. ^ Various sources give this broadly phrased range, which Fresco narrows more precisely to some time from 1191 to 1212/1213,[2]
  4. ^ Walters (1993), p. 22.
  5. ^ Walters claims the early dating of c. 1185–1190 to be the majority scholarly opinion, but also naming Guerreau (c. 1200) and Alice M. Colby-Hall (as late as 1230) as detractors.[4]
  6. ^ a b Perret ed. (2003), p. viii.
  7. ^ Perret assigns the later part of the date range: "début XIIIe siècle".[6]e
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  9. ^ "Renaut de Beaujeu - Arlima - Archives de littérature du Moyen Âge". arlima.net.