ACMRS Lecture Series
Return to Roncesvalles: Reflections on the Song of Roland
Coor Hall 4403, Tempe campus
March 8, 2011 - 2:00pm
Dr. Gerard J. Brault is the Edwin Erle Sparks Emeritus Professor of French and Medieval Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. His talk will cover four main topics:
- The battle in history vs. in the poem
- A typology of the characters in the Song of Roland
- The Twelve Peers
- The death of Roland
Professor Brault's two-volume edition and line-by-line analysis of the poem was first published in 1978. It is still in print. He is the author of numerous other books and articles on a variety of topics, chiefly medieval.
Free and open to the public.
