• The Crusade cycle is an Old French literary cycle of chansons de geste concerning the First Crusade and its aftermath. The cycle contains a number of initially...
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    do not provide specific identity to this knight, but the Old French Crusade cycle of chansons de geste adapted it to make the Swan Knight (Le Chevalier...
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    Stonehenge, long predating Islam. The rhyming stories of the Old French Crusade cycle were popular with medieval audiences in Northern France, Occitania and...
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  • composed a cycle of four sirventes in the summer of 1285 concerning the Aragonese Crusade. The Matter of Britain (or the "Arthurian cycle"), which centers...
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    rhymed form is from the opening lines of Les Chétifs, a chanson in the Crusade cycle. The rhyme is on ie: These forms of versification were substantially...
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    Chanson d'Antioche (category Crusade poetry)
    embedded in a quasi-historical cycle of epic poems inspired by the events of 1097–99, the climax of the First Crusade: the conquest of Antioch and of...
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    Manchester University Press. Mickel, Emanuel J., ed. (1999). The Old French Crusade Cycle:Les Enfances Godefroi and Le Retour de Cornumarant Les Enfances Godefroi...
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    variation of the Knight of the Swan tale, previously attached to the Crusade cycle of medieval literature. Loherangrin and his twin brother Kardeiz join...
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    The Albigensian Crusade (French: Croisade des albigeois), also known as the Cathar Crusade (1209–1229), was a military and ideological campaign initiated...
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  • Chanson des chétifs (category Crusade poetry)
    falling about halfway through the Old French Crusade Cycle (a series of narrative poems about the First Crusade). It takes its name from the fact that its...
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    Siege of Jerusalem (1099) (category Battles of the First Crusade)
    The siege of Jerusalem marked the successful end of the First Crusade, whose objective was the recovery of the city of Jerusalem and the Church of the...
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    Godfrey of Bouillon (category Christians of the First Crusade)
    fiction, he was the hero of the "Crusade cycle", a collection of French chansons de geste dealing with the First Crusade, which connected him to the legend...
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  • Chanson de Jérusalem: Completing the Central Trilogy of the Old French Crusade Cycle. Translated by Carol Sweetenham. Routledge, 2016, ISBN 978-1-1383-0724-7...
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  • A fourth grouping, not listed by Bertrand, is the Crusade cycle, dealing with the First Crusade and its immediate aftermath. Jean Bodel's other two...
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  • The list of sources for the Crusades provides those contemporaneous written accounts and other artifacts of the Crusades covering the period from the Council...
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    Toghtekin (category Muslims of the Crusades)
    Toghtekin died in 1128. He was succeeded by his son Buri. In the Old French Crusade cycle chansons de geste, Toghtekin is known as "Dodequin". Bahram al-Da'i...
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    variation of the Knight of the Swan tale, previously attached to the Crusade cycle of medieval literature. Loherangrin and his twin brother Kardeiz join...
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    Siege of Antioch (category Battles of the First Crusade)
    First Crusade in 1097 and 1098, on the crusaders' way to Jerusalem through Syria. Two sieges took place in succession. The first siege, by the crusaders against...
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    century) A fourth grouping, not listed by Bertrand, is the Crusade cycle, dealing with the First Crusade and its immediate aftermath, and including: Chanson...
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    Odo Arpin of Bourges (category Christians of the Crusade of 1101)
    donated by Emperor Alexius. Odo's capture was incorporated into the Crusade cycle of epic poetry, in the section known as Les Chétifs ("the captives")...
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    Mickel, Emanuel J. (1994). "The Three Godfreys and the Old French Crusade Cycle". In Wright, Monica L.; Lacy, Norris J.; Pickens, Rupert T. (eds.)....
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    geste called the Crusade cycle had associated the legend with the ancestors of Godfrey of Bouillon (d. 1100), the hero of the First Crusade. Although Godfrey...
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    Knight, today most familiar from Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin. The Crusade cycle, a group of Old French chansons de geste, had associated the legend...
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  • "It's a horror film, not a crusade", Channel NewsAsia. Re-cycle at IMDb Re-cycle at AllMovie Re-cycle at Rotten Tomatoes Re-cycle at the 2006 Cannes Film...
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  • The Matter of France, also known as the Carolingian cycle, is a body of medieval literature and legendary material associated with the history of France...
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  • Jerusalem Continuations: The London and Turin Redactions of the Old French Crusade cycle, Simon de Puille: Chanson de geste, Karlamagnús saga: The Saga of Charlemagne...
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    The crusading movement encompasses the framework of ideologies and institutions that described, regulated, and promoted the Crusades. The crusades were...
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  • Theory of the Crusade. Norman Daniel, Cairo. Chapter II. Crusade Propaganda. Norman Daniel. Chapter III. The Epic Cycle of the Crusades. Alfred Foulet...
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    Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death is a 1969 semi-autobiographic science fiction-infused anti-war novel by Kurt...
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    Royal Enfield (England) (category Cycle manufacturers of the United Kingdom)
    Royal Enfield was a brand name under which The Enfield Cycle Company Limited of Redditch, Worcestershire, England, sold motorcycles, bicycles, lawnmowers...
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