Naming Names: Onomastics, Etymologies and Intertexts in Aimon de Varennes' "Florimont"
Naming Names: Onomastics, Etymologies and Intertexts in Aimon de Varennes' "Florimont"
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Naming Names: Onomastics, Etymologies and Intertexts in Aimon de Varennes' "Florimont"
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Neuphilologischen Verein
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Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 2012-01, Vol.113 (4), p.457-485
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The Old French romance Florimont by Aimon de Varennes, dating from 1188, has been undeservedly neglected by modern scholars. An examination of the topos of naming in this work reveals a delight in the medieval practice of etymology in which names encapsulate the nature of their bearer, as well as a contrasting play with the notion of names as signs...
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Naming Names: Onomastics, Etymologies and Intertexts in Aimon de Varennes' "Florimont"
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0028-3754
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