Guernes de Pont-Sainte-Maxence (Garnier)

The La Vie de Saint Thomas le Martyr by Guernes de Pont-Saint Maxence can be considered to be a Lais [a Lay or Chanson de Geste] of the life of St. Thomas of Canterbury.

A lay is a song or poem written in stanzas [laisses]. The classic is the Song of Roland.


References

English: Guernes de Pont-Sainte-Maxence - Wikipedia

French: Guernes de Pont-Sainte-Maxence - Wikipédia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanson_de_geste

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laisse

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Song_of_Roland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lai_(poetic_form)

https://ia800906.us.archive.org/19/items/laviedesainttho00pontgoog/laviedesainttho00pontgoog.pdf

Eugène Étienne (1883). La vie Saint Thomas la Martir, poème historique du XIIe siècle composé par Garnier de Pont-Sainte-Maxence: étude historique, littéraire et philologique .... F. Vieweg.

Bibliothèque de l'École des chartes. Librairie Droz. 1843. pp. 208–.
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Hagiographie et historiographie : La Vie de saint Thomas Becket de Guernes de Pont-Sainte-Maxence et la Vie de saint Louis de Joinville = Hagiography and historiography : The Life of Saint Thomas Becket by Guernes de Pont-Sainte-Maxence and the Life of Saint Louis by Joinville

Céline Guillot; Serge Heiden; Sophie Prévost (2006). À la quête du sens: études littéraires, historiques et linguistiques en hommage à Christiane Marchello-Nizia. ENS Editions. pp. 321–. ISBN 978-2-84788-102-8.

Henning Andersen (18 May 1995). Historical Linguistics 1993: Selected papers from the 11th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Los Angeles, 16–20 August 1993. John Benjamins Publishing Company. pp. 251–. ISBN 978-90-272-7649-0.

Vie de saint Thomas Becket

Brunel Clovis. Guernes de Pont-Sainte-Maxence. La vie de Saint Thomas, le martyr. Poème historique du XIIe siècle (1172-1174), publié par E. Wallberg. In: Journal des savants. 22e année, Janvier-février 1924. pp. 39-40.url :http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/jds_0021-8103_1924_num_22_1_5444_t1_0039_0000_4

Emmanuel Walberg (1929). La tradition hagiographique de Saint Thomas Becket avant la fin du 12e siècle: études critiques. Slatkine.

Collectif. Introduction to the Study of Old French Literature. Slatkine. pp. 105–.

Marjorie Chibnall (1992). Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1991. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. pp. 236–. ISBN 978-0-85115-316-2.


[PDF] Vent'anni di studi sulla Vie de saint Thomas Becket di Guernes de Pont-Sainte-Maxence
S Modena - Vent'anni di studi sulla Vie de saint Thomas Becket di …, 2012 - academia.edu
An Ecclesiastical Epic: Garnier de Pont-Ste-Maxence's "Vie de Saint Thomas le Martyr"
Timothy Peters
Mediaevistik
Vol. 7, (1994), pp. 181-202
Published by: Peter Lang AG
Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/42584180

[PDF] Elements of the Chanson de Geste in an Old French Life of Becket: Garnier's Vie de Saint Thomas le Martyr
T Peters - Olifant, 1993 - scholarworks.iu.edu
Littlefair, John Robert Siddle (1980) Intention and achievement in La Vie De Saint Thomas Becket by Guernes De Pont-Sainte-Maxence. Masters thesis, Durham University.
http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/7800/

Peters, T. (1994). Elements of the Chanson de Geste in an Old French Life of Becket: Garnier’s Vie de Saint Thomas le Martyr. Olifant, 18(3-4).

CUER MA (Center : Aix-en-Provence, France) (1994). La violence dans le monde médiéval. CUER MA. ISBN 978-2-901104-37-7. pp. 397-412 http://goo.gl/I76Yw5
Violence et sacré : du meurtre au sacrifice dans la Vie de Saint Thomas Becket, de Guernes de Pont-Sainte-Maxence par Jean-Pierre Perrot

Works

Guernes (de Pont-Sainte-Maxence); Immanuel Bekker (1838). Leben des hl. Thomas von Canterbury: altfranzösisch. Berlin.

Guernes de Pont Sainte-Maxence; C. Hippeau (1859). La vie de saint Thomas le martyr: archevêque de Canterbury. Chez A. Aubry.

La vie de Saint Thomas le martyr; poème historique du 12e siècle (1172-1174) Publié par E. Walberg (1922)

http://archive.org/details/laviedesaintthom00gueruoft

The Anglo-Norman On-line Hub- Becket

Translations

Guernes (de Pont-Sainte-Maxence); Janet Shirley (1975). Garnier's Becket: translated from the 12th-century Vie saint Thomas le martyr de Cantorbire of Garnier of Pont-Sainte-Maxence. Phillimore. ISBN 978-0-85033-200-1.

Guernes (de Pont-Sainte-Maxence); Jean-Guy Gouttebroze; Ambroise Queffélec (1990). La vie de saint Thomas Becket. Libr. H. Champion. ISBN 978-2-85203-111-1.

Guernes (de Pont-Sainte-Maxence); Jacques Thomas (2002). La vie de Saint Thomas de Canterbury. Vol 1. Peeters. ISBN 978-90-429-1188-8.

Guernes (de Pont-Sainte-Maxence); Jacques Thomas (2002). La vie de Saint Thomas de Canterbury. Vol 2. Peeters. ISBN 978-90-429-1202-1.

A Life of Thomas Becket in Verse

La Vie de saint Thomas Becket

by Guernes de Pont-Sainte-Maxence

Translated with an introduction and notes by Ian Short

www.pims.ca-pdf-mst56.pdf

 

Manuscripts

Les Archives de littérature du Moyen Âge (ARLIMA)
Guernes de Pont Sainte Maxence
http://www.arlima.net/no/284

Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek: Cod. Guelf. 34.6 Aug. 4° (Heinemann-Nr. 3406) ff. 1a-83a
Link

London, British Library, Harley 270; ff. 1a-122b
Link
Details of an item from the British Library Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts

Bibliothèque Nationale de France: français 13513 (cote) Link
Supplément français 2636 (ancienne cote)
Vie de St Thomas de Cantorbéry, en vers français, par GARNIER DU PONT-SAINTE-MAXENCE.
XIIIe siècle
Parchemin. 98 feuillets: ff 1r-98v
200 × 132 mm. Reliure maroquin rouge.
http://goo.gl/0wHIBG

British Library Add. Mss 70513 ff. 9-50v
PORTLAND PAPERS. Vol. DXIII [formerly Welbeck Abbey]
Saint Thomas Becket,; Archbishop of Canterbury: Garnier de Pont-Saint-Maxence: Life of St Thomas à Becket by Garnier de Pont-Saint-Maxence: early 14th cent.
http://goo.gl/G0JT4x

British Library Add Mss 59616. ff. 27a-141a Link
[formerly Phillipps, 8113]
Guernes or Garnier de Pont-Sainte-Maxence, Life of Thomas Becket.
http://goo.gl/TIWymq

British Library, Cotton Domitian XI; ff. 27a-45b

British Library Harley 270

BnF archives et manuscrits — Français 13513 (FRBNFEAD000044302)

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9060901g

British Library Add Ms 70513 [ex Welbeck IC1]  ff. 9-50: St Thomas Becket

Cotton MS Domitian A XI, ff 3–108 : 1st quarter of the 14th century

La vie seint Thomas de Canterbery (27r–45v: Dean 508, imperfect)

Notes from ARLIMA

Guernes de Pont Sainte Maxence Arlima - Archives de littérature du Moyen Âge 

Manuscrits

• Première Rédaction:
• 1. London, Society of Antiquaries of London, 716, f. 1r-6vFragments
  2. 
     
• Seconde Rédaction:
• 1. London, British Library, Additional, 59616, f. 16r-130rAncien Cheltenham, Thomas Phillipps, 8113

1. 1. London, British Library, Additional, 70513, f. 9ra-50va |N|
   2. London, British Library, Cotton, Domitian XI, f. 27r-45v |N|
   3. London, British Library, Harley, 270, f. 1r-122v
   4. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson, C. 641, f. 10r-13r
   5. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, français, 13513, f. 1r-98v
   6. Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, 34. 6. Aug. 4o, f. 1r-83r

THOMAS BECKET The National Archives

http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/910c56c0-7d2d-4de8-8707-a955a4635af4
SAL/MS/716 - THOMAS BECKET

Emmanuel Walberg (1975). La tradition hagiographique de Saint Thomas Becket: avant la fin du XIIe siècle : études critiques. Slatkine.

Guernes de Pont Sainte Maxence Arlima - Archives de littérature du Moyen Âge - Bibliography



Sections by Line Number in

La vie de Saint Thomas le martyr edited by E. Walberg
https://archive.org/stream/laviedesainttho00guer#page/n7/mode/2up
or
https://archive.org/stream/laviedesaintthom00gueruoft#page/n5/mode/2up
or
http://txm.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/bfm/pdf/becket.pdf
or
Guernes (de Pont-Sainte-Maxence); Jacques Thomas (2002). La vie de Saint Thomas de Canterbury. Volume 1. Peeters.  ISBN 978-90-429-1188-8.
Lines Section

1-165 Prologue

166-275 Beginnings of his Life

276-395 As Chancellor to Henry II

396-550 Election as Archbishop

531-640 His Habit and the Pallium

641-730 Concerning Predestination

731-825 Divergences concerning Customs

923-1035 The Council of Clarendon

1036-1105 Pressures put on the Pope

1106-1380 Concerning Criminous Clerics

1381-1985 The Trap laid at Northampton

1986-2235 On the Roads into Exile

2236-2330 A Pope well warned

2331-2390 Thomas before the Pope

2391-2560 The Constitutions of Clarendon

2561-2780 Reactions to the Departure of Thomas

2781-2845 An Exchange of Letters

2846-3040 Letter from Thomas to Henry II

3041-3180 Another Letter to the King

3181-3320 Letter from the Bishop of London

3321-3565 Thomas' Reply to the Bishop of London

3566-3610 On Customs

3611-3675 Life of Thomas at Pontigny

3676-3800 From Pontigny to Sens

3801-3980 His Stay at Sens

3981-4070 Attempts at Rapprochement

4071-4215 Lost Accord

4216-4305 Towards a Renewal of Constact

4306-4440 The Meeting at Fréteval

4441-4580 Meanders through an Accord

4581-4765 Return Home [to England]

4766-4835 The Filling of [Vacant] Bishoprics

4836-4970 Towards Rupture

4971-5160 The conspiracy and its Start

5161-5380 Scene with the archbishop

5381-5465 Transfer to the Cathedral

5466-5655 On Blood in the Holy Sanctuary

5656-5740 Aftermath of the Crime

5741-5830 His Entombment

5831-5855 Subjection of the Archbishop's See

5856-5905 Homage to the Saint

5906-6080 The King's Penitence

6081-6155 Warnings and Prospects

6156-6180 Clarification