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Andrea Ghidoni
The 13th-century manuscript Paris, BnF, français 1448 (=D) contains alinking text betweenEnfances VivienandChevalerie Vivien. It can be divided intotwo nuclei, the first narrating the adventures of a young Rainouart and the seconddeveloping the dubbing of Vivien: in both cases, events of the biographies of twopopular heroes only hinted at in other major poems, which a compiler decided tonarrate extensively to fill the gap in the cycle ofchansonson thegeste Monglane.This paper, alongside the first critical edition of that text, offers a broad introduc-tion on the literary and cultural features of these two stories (which can be classi-fied as exemplars of theenfancessub-genre of medieval French epic).
