Before TV's warrior princess, before the golden lasso, fiction's first major Warrior-Woman was Bradamant, the heroine of Ludovico Ariosto's classic 16th century poem, Orlando Furioso.
Bibliography of all works, not only on the full cycle but also on Le Chanson de Guillaume and the Geste de Monglane. This is the first comprehensive critical bibliography of the Old French epic cycle of Guillaume d'Orange.
In this book, Sylvia Huot investigates how medieval readers understood the text, assessing the evidence to be found in well over 200 surviving manuscripts: annotations, glosses, illuminations, marginal doodles, rewritings, expansions and ...