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This book offers a detailed interpretation of the Song of Roland, one of the best-known texts in all heroic literature. It also includes a commentary that treats the poem's place in the eleventh (or early twelfth) century, its importance to the society that produced it, and the ways in which it is read today.

Epic poetry, French --- Roland (Legendary character) --- Roncesvalles, Battle of, Spain, 778, in literature. --- Musical Arts & Ethnomusicology. --- History and criticism. --- Romances --- Chanson de Roland.