The Vigdís Finnbogardóttir Institute of Foreign Languages invites you to the following lecture in English on Thursday, September 9th 2010 in room 111 of the main building of the University of Iceland:

Gabrielle Lafitte, University of Sevilla

The Chanson de Geste and the figures of French medieval epic’s imagination

The literary genre of the chanson de geste is one of the most ancient and most popular in French medieval literature, from the 11th to the 16th century. It allows us a privileged point of view about the medieval epic heroe, his place in the contemporary society and the imaginarium he belongs to.

La chanson de geste française et les figures de l’imagination épique

La chanson de geste est l’un des genres littéraires qui a connu le plus de succès au Moyen Age, c’est le plus ancien et il a perduré jusqu’au XVIe siècle. A travers lui nous disposons aujourd’hui d’un aperçu privilégié sur le héros épique médiéval, sa relation à la société et l’imaginaire auquel il appartient.

Gabrielle Lafitte, Junior Assistant in the French Department of Seville University, Spain.

Teaching French literature and language, she has been researching mainly in Medieval Literature and specially epics, around the notion of heroism in European medieval literatures and on the animal figures in French epics.