Abstract

DUMAS, María. Cities, Wanderings, and Tournaments. Dissonant Echoes of Arthurian Romance in Ipomedon by Hue de Rotelande. Scripta Mediaevalia [online]. 2021, vol.14, n.2, pp.47-75. ISSN 1851-8753.  http://dx.doi.org/10.48162/rev.35.006.

Ipomedon, dated to 1180-1185, has been described by Penny Eley as an irritating text. This description proves to be highly fitting, due to the author’s inclination to use and, simultaneously, distort the narrative conventions of Arthurian romance established a few years earlier by Chrétien de Troyes. In this paper, Hue de Rotelande’s peculiar reception of the Arthurian narrative model will be analyzed with a focus on the role ascribed to the city throughout the story. It will be suggested that, in his work, Hue disrupts the different inside/outside dynamics traditionally established by the city in romances in order to drive the action and, thus, the story: errantry and tournaments. The rather defective working of these dynamics in Ipomedon will bring to light Hue’s playful rewriting of the genre of romance, in which the author, simultaneously, inscribes his story.

Keywords : Ipomedon; Hue de Rotelande; Anglo-Norman literature; Arthurian romance; medieval city.

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