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Guilty as Charged? Subjectivity and the Law in La Chanson de Roland and "Lanval"

Guilty as Charged? Subjectivity and the Law in La Chanson de Roland and "Lanval"
Katherine Kong
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
La Chanson de Roland and Marie de France's lai "Lanval," both seminal French texts of the twelfth century, touch on aspects of legitimacy, legality and the power of the sovereign. As such, they provide excellent opportunities for exploring the bounds of subjectivity in the law, especially in their trial scenes. In examining the figures of Ganelon, "who has comm

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