The romaunce of the Sowdone of Babylone and of Ferumbras his sone who conquerede Rome

Titre:	the Romaunce of the Sowdon of Babyloyne and of Ferumbras his sone who conquerede Rome, And Kynge Charles off Fraunce withe XII Dosyperes toke the Sowdon in the feelde And smote of his heede (ms., expl.); The Sultan of Babylon (trad. Lupack); The sowdan of Babylon
Date:	XV^e siècle
Langue:	Anglais
Genre:	Roman
Forme:	1840 vers (incomplet du début)
Contenu:	Roman s'inspirant d'une version anglo-normande perdue de Fierabras et de la Destruction de Rome.
Incipit:	God in glorye of myghteste moost, that al thinge made in sapience by vertue of woorde and holy goost, gyvinge to man grete excellence…
Explicit:	… but brynge here soules to goode reste! That were so worthy in dede. And gyf vs ioye of the beste, that of here gestes rede! Here endithe the Romaunce of the Sowdon of Babyloyne and of Ferumbras his sone who conquerede Rome, And Kynge Charles off Fraunce withe XII Dosyperes toke the Sowdon in the feelde And smote of his heede.

Manuscrits

Éditions anciennes

Éditions modernes

The Romaunce of the Sowdone of Babyloyne and of Ferumbras his Sone who Conquerede Rome, London, William Nicol, Shakspeare Press, 1854, [vii] + xii + 137 p. [GB] [IA]
The English Charlemagne Romances. Part V. The Romaunce of the Sowdone of Babylone and of Ferumbras his Sone who Conquerede Rome. Re-edited from the unique MS. of the late Sir Thomas Phillipps, with introduction, notes, and glossary, by Emil Hausknecht, London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co. (Early English Text Society. Extra Series, 38), 1881, lxvii + 144 p. [GB] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
Réimpressions:
- 1969
- 2002
Middle English Metrical Romances, edited by Walter Hoyt French and Charles Brockway Hale, New York, Russell and Russell, 1964, 2 t. (ici t. 1, p. 239-284) [IA: t. 1-2]
Édition antérieure:
- Middle English Metrical Romances, edited by Walter Hoyt French and Charles Brockway Hale, New York, Prentice-Hall, 1930, 2 t. [IA: t. 1-2]
Lappert, Stephen F., The Sowdon of Babylon: A Critical Edition, Ph. D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1975.
Three Middle English Charlemagne Romances, edited by Alan Lupack, Kalamazoo, Medieval Institute Publications (Middle English Texts Series), 1990, viii + 207 p. [lib.rochester.edu]

Traductions modernes

Études

Akbari, Suzanne Conklin, Idols in the East: European Representations of Islam and the Orient, 1100-1450, Ithaca et London, Cornell University Press, 2009, xii + 323 p. [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
Barron, W. R. J., English Medieval Romance, London et New York, Longman (Longman Literature in English Series), 1987, xiv + 288 p. [IA]
Grinberg, Ana, « The lady, the giant, and the land: the monstrous in Fierabras », eHumanista, 18, 2011, p. 186-192. [www]
Hausknecht, Emil, Ueber Sprache und Quellen des mittelenglischen Heldengedichts vom Sowdan of Babylon, Berlin, Schade, 1879, 50 p. [GB] [IA]
Compte rendu:
G. Gröber, dans Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie, 4, 1880, p. 163-170. [BNC] [Gallica] [GB] [HT] [IA]
Mehnert, R., « Alte und neue Fierabras-Fragen », Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie, 60, 1940, p. 49-62. [Gallica] DOI: 10.1515/zrph.1940.60.1.29
Smyser, H. M., « The Snowdon of Babylon and its author », Harvard Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature, 13, 1931, p. 185-218.