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Earlier scholars erroneously believed that the poem was written by its hero, Hugh. In fact, the poet appears not to have been a knight but rather a cleric and possibly even a priest. The tone of the poem has been likened to that of a sermon and
Bataille went so far as to suggest that it may have been
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The King listened to all this and then asked him if anything was lacking. "Sire, yes, but I dare not do it. — What is it, then? — It is the accolade. — Why have you not given it to me and told me its meaning? — Sire, he said, it is a reminder to the knight of him who dubbed him and ordained him, but
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A prose version of the poem appeared early. The poem (or its prose version) survives in whole or in part in ten medieval manuscripts, a further five modern ones and has been printed at least five times. The prose version is also found inserted into two manuscripts of the
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This fictional account seems to be based on the conflation of a historical event and a legendary one regarded as historical at the end of the 12th century. In 1178 or 1179, Hugh of
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I will not give it you, for I am here in your prison, and I should commit no wickedness, whatever is said or done to me; for this reason, I do not wish to strike you. You must just accept this.
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Characterising Medieval Multi-Text Codices". In Karen Pratt; Bart Besamusca; Matthias Meyer; Ad Putter (eds.).
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designed to be read publicly in church. Judging by his language and his choice of hero, the poet was probably from the vicinity of
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on the chivalric tradition. It has been claimed without evidence as a source for
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wrote his doctoral thesis on the poem in 1922, but it was never deposited in the
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