Roman d'Enéas

The Roman d' Eneas ( Äneasroman ) is an handed down without the author's name old French epic poem of the 12th century.

The resulting probably shortly after 1160 plant belongs to the genus of the Ancient novels that flourished in France from about 1160 to about 1180 and a middle position between the older kind chanson de geste ( exploits song) and the little younger genre of courtly novel occupies. It is written in rhyming pairs Achtsilblern and some 10,000 verses long. His submission is primarily Virgil's epic Aeneid, Rome 's founding ( about 20 BC ), but it also uses additional sources, such as Ovid's works.

Target group of the unknown author is the aristocratic audience of contemporary princely courts. Accordingly, he takes pleasure in the detailed representation of knights fighting, but also, and this is new, the theme love, which he admits a significantly higher value than its forerunner, also unknown author of probably the first successful and school -giving Ancient Romans, the Roman de Thebes.

It was certainly not least, the intuitive form of female figures Dido and Lavinia, what the minstrel Heinrich von Veldeke led to 1170, the Roman d' Eneas rewrite in Middle High German verse ( Eneasroman ).