15. Renaut de Montauban and the Pseudo-Turpin’s Renaut d’Aubépine – two names for one person?
Is the Pseudo-Turpin’s enigmatic Rainaldus de Albo Spino just an early name of later Renaut Montauban high renown? The arguments commonly offered against this identification are disproved, and three new based on a closer analysis Pseudo- Turpin text itself make positive answer almost unavoidable. emergence toponym ‘Montauban’ in twelfth-century reality literature is examined detail, certain metamorphosis ideas underlying traced through versions from twelfth to fourteenth century. To round off picture, two other constituent elements beside part protagonist, i.e. character Maugis four brothers’ theme, also briefly studied genetic perspective.
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