Mouskes is of some importance in literary history, because of the great extent to which he has drawn on the Chansons de Gestes for his information.
The Chansons de Gestes were in their way historical poems, and they were, as we have seen, soon followed by directly historical poems in considerable numbers.
It is remarkable for a very curious list of Chansons de Gestes which the clumsy reciter quotes all wrong, and for a great number of the sly hits at chivalry and the chivalrous romances which are characteristic of all this literature.
The question whether the Chansons de Gestes were originally written in northern or southern French has often been hotly debated.
The Chansons de Gestes have been the especial care of M.
It is further possible to indicate a large class of Chansons de Gestes over which the influence of the Roman d'Aventures has passed.
There are some forty or fifty Chansons de Gestes in print, all of which save two or three I have read, and almost every one of which presents points on which it would be most interesting to me to comment.
The three chiefgestes are those of the King, of Doon de Mayence, and of Garin de Montglane.
And as diuinely the father of Romaine eloquence doth say, how that philosophers by recording the glorious gestes and dedes of others, do seke after glory themselues.
The Gestes of Antioch probably means the capture of Antioch in 1098 under the Crusader leaders Tancred and Godfrey of Bouillon.
The instances, therefore, that are scattered over the middle ages of the brave gestes of women sprang from the spirit of chivalry and not from any other principle of society.
Froissart corrected all this borrowed matter on the information of the barons and knights of his time regarding their families' gestes and prowesses.
I haue herd told of 1408 busirides þat was wo{n}t to sleen hys gestes þat herburghden in hys hous.
Sidenote: The gestes and prowesses of Sir Walter Manny.
That it is a cantar must be plain to all who possess even a slight familiarity with the chansons de gestes of France.
I have given more space to the proofs of connexion between the French chansons de gestes and the Spanish cantares de gesta than most of my predecessors who have written of Castilian romantic story.
And so descendeth doun from gestes olde To Diomede, and thus she spak and tolde.
And held after his gestes ay his pas; And aftir swiche answeres as he hadde, 1350 So were his dayes sory outher gladde.
We have also positive proof that the subject of his songs were gestes and romantic tales ([V2] note).
Had they been sons of kings, who were but earls, the story of their gestes would be sung by the minstrels, as I deem, about the world, so marvellous were their feats.
I know not if you have heard tell the marvellous gestes and errant deeds related so often of King Arthur.
George Saintsbury's The Chansons de Gestes (see his Short History of French Literature, 1892, pp.
There is another French Gestes Romaines by Gaguin the historian, which has been mistaken for a translation of the Gesta; but it is nothing more than an extract from the history of the Roman republic.
It is taken from Gaguin, Gestes Romains, printed at Paris by Ant.
But even at the present day such procedure is dangerous, and likely to be detected.
He first gives some advice about matrimony, carefully distinguishing between statements which he makes on his own authority, and rules laid down by Christ, and also between counsels of perfection and the obligations of ordinary Christians.
Diotrephes was at least a presbyter, and perhaps a bishop appointed by the apostle.
Therfore I and my fellowes, as your gestes and kinsmen, according to equitie doe procure and wish the same vnto you.
For this reason he had killed Ægestes and made the other a priestess of Vesta, that she might continue a virgin and childless.
III Between the two main epic cycles of Poictesme, as embodied in Les Gestes de Manuel and La Haulte Histoire de Jurgen, more or less comparison is inevitable.
But, natheles, yit preye we, That we mowe han so good a fame And greet renoun and knowen name, As they that han don nobel gestes .
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gestes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
