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John W. Baldwin, « Jean Renart et le tournoi de Saint-Trond : une conjonction de l'histoire et de la littérature », Annales, ID : 10.3406/ahess.1990.278858
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Jean Renart's Tournament at Saint-Trond : A Conjuncture between History and Literature. By juxtaposing historical sources (Gislebert de Mons and the Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal) with imaginative literature (Chrétien de Troyes and Jean Renart) this study poses four questions concerning the conduct of tournaments northern France at the turn of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries : (1) How Knights fought, in groups or singly ? (2)Why they fought, for boot or glory? (3) Were women present? (4) What was the influence of churchmen? It concludes that answers to these questions may be found in the tensions created by the interaction between historical and literary texts.