Richard Coeur de Lyon

Titre:	Richard Coeur de Lyon; Richard, Coer de Lyon; Kynge Rycharde cuer de lyon (imprimés du XVI^e s.); Richard the Lion-Hearted (trad. moderne)
Date:	Vers 1300
Langue:	Anglais
Genre:	Roman
Forme:	7136 vers
Contenu:
Incipit:	Lord Jesus kyng of glorye suche grace and vyctorye thou sente to Kyng Rychard, that neuer was found coward!…
Explicit:	… Thus endyd Richard our kyng: God geve us alle good endyng, and hys soule reste and roo, and oure soules whenne we com thertoo!

Manuscrits

Version courte:
1. Badminton, Badminton House, 704.I.16, 1 f.
2. Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Advocates, 19.2.1, f. 326-327 (L) [⇛ Description]
3. London, British Library, Egerton MS 2862, f. 1 (E) [⇛ Description]
4. London, British Library, Harley MS 4690 (C)
5. London, College of Arms, Arundel, 58
6. Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 228
Version longue:
1. Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College Library, 175/96, p. 1 (C) [⇛ Description]
2. London, British Library, Add MS 31042, f. 125 [⇛ Description]
  « Thornton MS »

Éditions anciennes

Version longue:
1. Kynge Rycharde cuer du lyon
  London, Wynkyn de Worde, 1509
  ARLIMA: EA2883 USTC: 501039 ESTC: S120269
2. Kynge Rycharde cuer du lyon
  London, Wynkyn de Worde, 1528
  ARLIMA: EA2884 USTC: 502059 ESTC: S101588

Éditions modernes

Metrical Romances of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Centuries: published from ancient manuscripts, with an introduction, notes, and a glossary by Henry Weber, Edinburgh, Constable, 1810, 3 t. (ici t. 2, p. 1-278 et 475-478; t. 3, p. 347-360) [GB: t. 1, t. 1, t. 2, t. 3] [HT] [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3]
Kölbing, E., « Kleine Publikationen aus der Auchinleck-Hs. III. Zwei Fragmente von King Richard », Englische Studien, 8, 1885, p. 115-119. [GB] [HT] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
Der mittelenglische Versroman über Richard Löwenherz: kritische Ausgabe nach allen Handschriften mit Einleitung, Anmerkungen und deutscher Übersetzung von Karl Brunner, Wien et Leipzig, Braumüller (Wiener Beiträge zur englischen Philologie, 42), 1913, x + 604 p. [GB] [IA]
Smithers, G. V., « Two newly-discovered fragments from the Auchinleck MS. », Medium Ævum, 18, 1949, p. 1-11. DOI: 10.2307/43626333

Traductions modernes

en allemand:
- Brunner 1913 (voir sous Éditions modernes)
en anglais:
- Ellis, George, Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances, Chiefly Written During the Early Part of the Fourteenth Century; to which is Prefixed an Historical Introduction, Intended to Illustrate the Rise and Progress of Romantic Composition in France and England. A new edition, revised by J. O. Halliwell, London, Bohn (Bohn's Antiquarian Library), 1848, viii + 600 p. (ici t. 2, p. 282-341) [GB] [IA]
  Éditions antérieures:
  - Ellis, George, Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances, Chiefly Written During the Early Part of the Fourteenth Century; to which is Prefixed an Historical Introduction, Intended to Illustrate the Rise and Progress of Romantic Composition in France and England, London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme; Edinburgh, Constable, 1805, 3 t., vii + 387, [iv] + 404, [iv] + 419 p. [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3]
  - Ellis, George, Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances, Chiefly Written During the Early Part of the Fourteenth Century; to which is Prefixed an Historical Introduction, Intended to Illustrate the Rise and Progress of Romantic Composition in France and England, London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811, 3 t., vii + 408, [iv] + 419, [iv] + 432 p. [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3]
- Richard the Lion-Hearted and Other Medieval English Romances, translated, edited and with an introduction by Bradford B. Broughton, New York, Dutton (A Dutton Paperback, D179), 1966, 255 p. [IA]

Études

Akbari, Suzanne Conklin, « The hunger for national identity in Richard Coer de Lion », Reading Medieval Culture: Essays in Honor of Robert W. Hanning, éd. Robert M. Stein et Sandra Pierson Prior, Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Press, 2005.
Ambrisco, Alan S., « Cannibalism and cultural encounters in Richard Coeur de Lyon », Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 29, 1999, p. 499-528.
Anderson, Carolyn B., « Constructing royal character: king Richard in Richard Coeur de Lyon », Publications of the Medieval Association of the Midwest, 6, 1999, p. 85-108.
Barron, W. R. J., English Medieval Romance, London et New York, Longman (Longman Literature in English Series), 1987, xiv + 288 p. [IA]
Blurton, Heather, Richard the Lionheart: In Life and in Legend, London, Reaktion Books (Medieval Lives), 2025, 200 p. ISBN: 9781836391234
Compte rendu:
Marisa Libbon, dans The Medieval Review, 26.07.14, 2026. [www]
Compte rendu de:
Compte rendu de:
Broughton, Bradford B., The Legends of King Richard I Coeur de Lion: A Study of Sources and Variations to the Year 1600, The Hague, Mouton, 1966.
Campbell, Leslie Jean, The Matter of England in Middle English Romance, Ph. D. dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1983, v + 155 p. [PQ]
Coote, Lesley A., « Laughing at monsters in Richard Cœur de Lion », Grant Risee? The Medieval Comic Presence. La présence comique médiévale. Essays in Honour of Brian J. Levy, éd. Adrian Tudor et Alan Hindley, Turnhout, Brepols (Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe, 11), 2006, p. 193-211.
Czarnowus, Anna, Fantasies of the Other's Body in Middle English Oriental Romance, Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang (Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature, 40), 2013, 233 p. [IA]
Dolmans, Emily, Writing Regional Identities in Medieval England: From the "Gesta Herwardi" to "Richard Coer de Lyon", Cambridge, Brewer, 2020, xiv + 235 p. ISBN: 9781843845683, 9788178744
Elias, Marcel, « Violence, excess, and the composite emotional rhetoric of Richard Coeur de Lion », Studies in Philology, 114:1, 2017, p. 1-38. DOI: 10.1353/sip.2017.0000
Finlayson, John, « Richard, Coer de Lyon: romance, history or something in between? », Studies in Philology, 87:2, 1990, p. 156-180.
Finlayson, John, « Legendary ancestors and the expansion of romance in Richard, Coeur de Lyon », English Studies, 79, 1998, p. 299-308.
Furrow, Melissa, Expectations of Romance: The Reception of a Genre in Medieval England, Cambridge, Brewer (Studies in Medieval Romance, 11), 2009, viii + 264 p. ISBN: 9781843842071, 9781846157240
Heng, Geraldine, « The romance of England: Richard Coeur de Lyon, Saracens, Jews, and the politics of race and nation », The Postcolonial Middle Ages, éd. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, New York, St Martin's Press, 2000, p. 135-172.
Jentsch, F., « Die mittelenglische Romanze Richard Cœur de Lion und ihre Quellen », Englische Studien, 15, 1891, p. 161-247. [GB] [HT] [IA]
Kölbing, E., « Kleine Beiträge zur Erklärung, Textkritik und Phraseologie mittelenglischer Dichter », Englische Studien, 13, 1889, p. 133-140. (ici p. 138) [GB] [HT] [IA]
McDonald, Nicola, « Eating people and the alimentary logic of Richard Cœur de Lion », Pulp Fictions of Medieval England: Essays in Popular Romance, éd. Nicola McDonald, Manchester et New York, Manchester University Press, 2004, p. 124-150. [IA] [oapen.org]
Mehl, Dieter, Die mittelenglischen Romanzen des 13. und 14. Jahrhunderts, Heidelberg, Winter (Anglistische Forschungen, 93), 1967, 229 p. [IA]
Traduction:
- Mehl, Dieter, The Middle English Romances of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1968, 300 p. [IA]
Needler, George Henry, Richard Cœur de Lion in Literature, Leipzig, Fock, 1890, 76 p. [IA]
Édition antérieure:
- Needler, George Henry, Richard Cœur de Lion in Literature, Leipzig, Fock, 1890, 77 p. [GB] [IA]
Paris, G., « Le roman de Richard Cœur de Lion », Romania, 26, 1897, p. 353-393. [Gallica] [GB] [HT] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2] DOI: 10.3406/roma.1897.5509
Stokoe, W. C., Jr., The Work of the Redacters of Sir Launfal, Richard Coeur de Lion, and Sir Degaré, Ph. D. dissertation, Cornell University, 1946.

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