Tournaments become literary events in these romances, which intriguingly blur the
line between history and fiction.
Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski
[See also: CHRÉTIEN DE TROYES; HUON D’OISY; ROMANCE;
TOURNAMENT]
Bretel, Jacques. Le tournoi de Chauvency, ed. Maurice Delbouille. Paris: Droz, 1932.
Sarrasin. Le roman du Hem, ed. Albert Henry. Brussels: Éditions de la Revue de l’Université de
Bruxelles, 1939.
Duvernoy, Émile, and René Harmand. Le tournoi de Chauvency en 1285: étude sur la société et les
mœurs chevaleresques au XIIIe siècle. Nancy: Berger-Levrault, 1905.
——. Histoire littéraire de la France 23(1856):469–83.
TOURNUS
. A Celtic city that became a Roman castrum, Tournus (Saône-et-Loire) has preserved
remains of its Roman fortifications. One of France’s earliest monastic sites, the city was
evangelized by St. Valérien, who gave his name to a Merovingian foundation. In the late
9th century, monks from Noirmoutier, fleeing the Vikings, arrived with relics of St.
Philibert, the founder of the abbey of Jumièges. After destruction by Hungarian raiders in
937, the abbey was rebuilt after 949.
The Benedictine church of Saint-Philibert in Tournus is a complex structure
approximately 265 feet in length. A twin-towered façade stands on the western bay of the
10th-century narthex, itself a museum of Romanesque vaulting techniques. Downstairs,
the central vessel is covered with groin vaults and its flanking aisles with transverse
barrel vaults. Upstairs, the central vessel has a longitudinal barrel vault and the aisles
quadrant vaults. Adjacent to the narthex is an aisled nave, with walls carried on massive
cylindrical piers and originally a wooden roof. This nave
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