Université de Caen Normandie

matière de Rome was the work of clercs who demoted Greek myth in favour of modern forms of magic and appealed to courtly taste by giving a new role to the dawning and ruses of love. But they also purported to be history. The Chronique des ducs de Normandie (c.1175) of Benoît de Saint-Maure, author of the Roman de Troie, was a vast fresco which connected the world of antiquity to the Anglo-Norman kings: if Charlemagne is a descendant of Francus of Troy, so the Plantagenet family tree is traced to Aeneas