Baudouin de Sebourc

Baudouin de Sebourc is a fourteenth-century French chanson de geste which probably formed part of a cycle related to the Crusades,^[1] and may well be related to Bâtard de Bouillon.^[2] The poem was likely composed c. 1350 in Hainaut.^[3]

The poem consists of 25,750 lines and is retained in two manuscript copies and was printed in 1841; a critical edition wasn't published until 1940.^[1] This edition, by Edmond-René Labande, advanced two ideas about the poem. The first was that it should be dated to the middle of the fourteenth century rather than earlier in that century, and the second that it was written by two poets—the first a very capable writer with a fine sense of humor, the second a much less original one.^[4]

^ ^a ^b Bossuat, Robert (1941). "Rev. of Edmond-René Labande, Étude sur Baudouin de Sebourc, chanson de geste, légende poétique de Baudoin II du Bourg, roi de Jérusalem". Bibliothèque de l'école des chartes. 102 (1): 229–30.
^ Cook, Robert F. (1989). "Baudouin de Sebourc: Un poème édifiant". Olifant. 14 (2). Société Rencesvals.
^ Claassens, G. H. M. (2000). "Baudoin de Sebourc". In Willem Pieter Gerritsen (ed.). A Dictionary of Medieval Heroes: Characters in Medieval Narrative Traditions and Their Afterlife in Literature, Theatre and the Visual Arts. Anthony G. van Melle, Tanis Guest. Boydell & Brewer. pp. 53–54. ISBN 9780851157801.
^ Kibler, William W. (1970). "The Unity of Baudouin de Sebourc". Studies in Philology. 67 (4): 461–71. JSTOR 4173696.

[bossuat-1] Bossuat, Robert (1941). "Rev. of Edmond-René Labande, Étude sur Baudouin de Sebourc, chanson de geste, légende poétique de Baudoin II du Bourg, roi de Jérusalem". Bibliothèque de l'école des chartes. 102 (1): 229–30.

[cook-2] Cook, Robert F. (1989). "Baudouin de Sebourc: Un poème édifiant". Olifant. 14 (2). Société Rencesvals.

[claassens-3] Claassens, G. H. M. (2000). "Baudoin de Sebourc". In Willem Pieter Gerritsen (ed.). A Dictionary of Medieval Heroes: Characters in Medieval Narrative Traditions and Their Afterlife in Literature, Theatre and the Visual Arts. Anthony G. van Melle, Tanis Guest. Boydell & Brewer. pp. 53–54. ISBN 9780851157801.

[4] Kibler, William W. (1970). "The Unity of Baudouin de Sebourc". Studies in Philology. 67 (4): 461–71. JSTOR 4173696.

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