Une Vendetta Tableau Synthese

between Christians and Saracens, the genre soon turned its attention to other conflicts: quarrels between emperor and subject, lord and liegeman, one family and another. Raoul de Cambrai, the blackest and most brutal of all these epics, pursues a vendetta begun by the injustice of Charlemagne to his vassal. Le Couronnement de Louis (c.1131–50) sets Charlemagne against Louis, his son and appointed successor, while in Le Charroi de Nîmes (c.1150–70) Guillaume’s adventures grow out of his quarrel with