Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies (University of Reading)
39
63--74
Yes
International
0950-3129
[en] Medieval ; Alexander the Great ; French
[en] A study of the use of hybrid physical appearance both to signal and to explore the disputed paternity of Alexander the Great throughout its vernacular French tradition. The article compares the 'child of Babylon' portent and Alexander's son Alior in the twelfth-century French "Roman d'Alexandre" poem cycle, and a fifteenth-century prose adaptation of it.