The 'child of Babylon' and the problem of paternity in Medieval French Alexander romances

Leglu, C. (2013) The 'child of Babylon' and the problem of paternity in Medieval French Alexander romances. Reading Medieval Studies, 39. pp. 63-74. ISSN 0950-3129

Abstract/Summary

A study of the use of hybrid physical appearance both to signal and to explore the disputed paternity of Alexander the Great throughout its vernacular French tradition. The article compares the 'child of Babylon' portent and Alexander's son Alior in the twelfth-century French "Roman d'Alexandre" poem cycle, and a fifteenth-century prose adaptation of it.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/34136
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Arts, Humanities and Social Science > Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies (GCMS) Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Literature and Languages > Languages and Cultures > French
Publisher	Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies (University of Reading)
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