Frontière religieuse et frontière chevaleresque dans L’Entrée en Espagne

Abstract

L’Entrée in Espagne is a XIVth century epic Franco-Italian poem that narrates Charlemagne’s military campaign to release the way of Santiago, inclu-ding a long episode relative to the feats of Roland, when he was in the East at the service of the Persian sultan. Our study tries to bring to light the relationships that settle down in this epic universe between the both sides faced: Muslims and Christians. On the one hand, it is shown the existence of an insurmountable border of religious and, first of all, cultural nature, between the we, with whom the author identifies himself, and the others, the enemies to win or to turn. Nevertheless, on the other hand a tendency is perceived to come near to the other, thanks to a common chivalrous ethics between Muslim and Christian elites. All it shows that the relationships between ones and others are more complex than those that it seemed at first sight in this epic universe.