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Epic literature, Romance --- French poetry --- Littérature épique romane --- Poésie française --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Jacques, --- Alexander, --- Romances --- History and criticism --- Epic literature, Romance-language --- Littérature épique romane --- Poésie française --- Jacques de Longuyon. --- Epic literature, Romance - History and criticism --- French poetry - To 1500 - History and criticism --- Jacques, - de Longuyon, - active 1290-1312. - Voeux du Paon --- Alexander, - the Great, - 356 B.C.-323 B.C. - Romances - History and criticism --- Alexander, - the Great, - 356 B.C.-323 B.C.

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Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 264 is one of the most famous and most sumptuous illuminated manuscripts of the entire Middle Ages. Completed in 1344 in Tournai, in what is now Belgium, the manuscript preserves the fullest version of the interpolated Old French 'Roman d'Alexandre' (Romance of Alexander the Great), and some of the most vivid illustrations of any medieval romance, ranking amongst the greatest achievements of the illuminator's art, its borders in particular offering a panorama of medieval society and imagination. A celebration of courtliness, a commemoration of urban chivalry, a mirror for the prince instructing in the arts of rule, and a meditation on crusade, it manifests the extraordinary richness and creativity of late medieval manuscript culture. This study examines the manuscript as a monumental expression of the beliefs and social practices of its day, placing it in its historical and artistic context; it also analyzes its later reception in England, where the addition of a Middle English Alexander poem and of Marco Polo's 'Voyages' reflects changing concepts of language, historiography, and geography. Mark Cruse is Assistant Professor of French, School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University.

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval. --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, French. --- French illumination of books and manuscripts --- Painting, Medieval --- Alexander, --- Alejandro, --- Alekjhāṇḍara, --- Aleksandar, --- Aleksander, --- Aleksandr, --- Alekʻsandre, --- Aleksandros bar Filipos, --- Aleksandŭr, Makedonski, --- Alessandro, --- Alexander --- Alexandre, --- Alexandros --- Alexandros, --- Alexandros, Megalos, --- Alexandru, --- Alexantros, --- Aleksandŭr, --- Александър, --- Iskandar, --- Maḳdonya, Aleksandros bar Filipos, --- Makedonski, Aleksandŭr, --- Македонски, Александър, --- Megalexandros, --- Megas Alexandros, --- Nagy Sándor, --- Sikandar, --- Iskender, --- Μέγας Ἀλέξανδρος, --- Ἀλέξανδρος, --- Ἀλέξανδρος --- אלכסנדר בן פיליפוס, --- אלכסנדר, --- اسكندر كبير --- اسکندر اعظم --- سکندراعظم --- Roman d'Alexandre --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval --- Themes, motives. --- History and criticism. --- Bodleian Library. --- Arts of Rule. --- Courtliness. --- Crusade. --- Historical Context. --- Illuminated Manuscript. --- Manuscript Culture. --- Medieval Art. --- Medieval Manuscript. --- Medieval Society. --- Roman d'Alexandre. --- Romance of Alexander the Great. --- Tournai. --- Urban Chivalry.