Chapter 5: The Authorship of C2

Corin F. V. Corley

From The Second Continuation of the Old French Perceval: A Critical and Lexicographical Study (1987), pp. 64-67, doi:10.59860/td.c381afd

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Corin F. V. Corley

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Abstract.  The question of the authorship of C2, hinging on lines 31421-23 which mention 'Gauchiers de Dondain', has been long and widely discussed, but since the article of F. Lot on the subject, the attribution to Wauchier de Denain, known as the translator of a series of Vies des Pères, has been abandoned, until G. Vial's recent re-establishment of it.

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