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Secondhand book for saleD. D. R. Owen.
The Legend of Roland: A Pageant of the Middle Ages.
Published London: Phaidon Press, 1973.
ISBN 0714815462.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printer: Loiseau SA, Brussels.
Size: 217x251x22mm.
Page count: 205pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: the dustjacket is rather ragged; the book itself looks in generally good order, text appears to be free of marking.
This item £10.00
P&P inc. within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)Weight without packaging: 1037g.
Traces the origins and eventual influences of the Song of Roland, lavishly illustrated from contemporary manuscripts of Roland and other sources. The central section of the book provides a prose adaptation of Roland, with events in the text keyed to the accompanying illustrations.
Contents: Facts & fictions — Franks & Saracens — Charlemagne — Roncevaux — History into epic — Later Roland legends — Roland in art; Song of Roland; Later legends.
Illustrations: 115 monochrome, 24 colour
Maps & plans: 1Notes: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 1 page
Index: yes[BML/LF][PC2]
See also | Chanson de Roland |
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