page_title: Chanson de geste
hierarchical_section_title: Chanson de geste
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Zusammenrückung von 8 Stationen der Rolandslied in ein Bild English: Eight stages of The Song of Roland in one picture Español: Ocho escenas del Cantar de Roldán en una imagen Français&#160;: Huit etapes de La Chanson de Roland en une image Čeština: Ilustrace k Písni o Rolandovi. Velké kroniky Francie, polovina 15. století.
context_page_description: The chanson de geste is a medieval narrative, a type of epic poem that appears at the dawn of French literature. The earliest known poems of this genre date from the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries, before the emergence of the lyric poetry of the trouvères and the earliest verse romances. They reached their highest point of acceptance in the period 1150–1250.
  Composed in verse, these narrative poems of moderate length were originally sung, or recited, by minstrels or jongleurs. More than one hundred chansons de geste have survived in approximately three hundred manuscripts that date from the 12th to the 15th century.
context_section_description: The chanson de geste (Old French for '"song of heroic deeds"', from Latin gesta "deeds, actions accomplished") is a medieval narrative, a type of epic poem that appears at the dawn of French literature. The earliest known poems of this genre date from the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries, before the emergence of the lyric poetry of the trouvères (troubadours) and the earliest verse romances. They reached their highest point of acceptance in the period 1150–1250.
  Composed in verse, these narrative poems of moderate length (averaging 4000 lines) were originally sung, or (later) recited, by minstrels or jongleurs. More than one hundred chansons de geste have survived in approximately three hundred manuscripts that date from the 12th to the 15th  century.
caption: The eight phases of The Song of Roland in one picture.
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