Canso d'Antioca
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canso-d-antioca-263-7932122
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Canso d'Antioca
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The Canso d'Antioca is a late twelfth-century Occitan epic poem in the form of a chanson de geste describing the First Crusade up to the Siege of Antioch (1098). It survives only in a single manuscript fragment of 707 alexandrines, now preserved in Madrid. The Canso was a reworking of a lost earlier Occitan epic history of the First Crusade written by one Gregory Bechada and commissioned by Bishop Eustorge of Limoges probably between 1106 and 1118. Being based partially on eyewitness testimony,
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canso_d%27Antioca
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2023-03-26T12:38:21Z
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