Jean Bodel, who lived in the late twelfth century, was an Old French poet who wrote a number of chansons de geste. He lived in Arras. (11th century - 12th century - 13th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 12th century was that century which lasted from 1101 to 1200. ... Old French is a term sometimes used to refer to the langue doïl, the continuum of varieties of Romance language spoken in territories corresponding roughly to the northern half of modern France and parts of Belgium and Switzerland during the period roughly from 1000 to 1300 A.D... The chansons de geste, Old French for songs of heroic deeds, are the epic poetry that appears at the dawn of French literature. ... Arras is a city and commune in northern France, préfecture (capital) of the Pas-de-Calais département. ...

Bodel wrote the Chanson des Saisnes, about the war of King Charlemagne with the Saxons and their leader Widukind, whom Bodel calls Guiteclin. He also wrote a miracle play called the Jeu de Saint Nicolas, which tells a story of how St Nicholas forces some thieves to restore a stolen treasure. Charlemagne is also the name of a column in The Economist on European affairs Charlemagne (c. ... The Saxon people or Saxons were a large and powerful Germanic people located in what is now northwestern Germany and a small section of the eastern Netherlands. ... Widukind or Wittekind was a Saxon leader, duke of Saxony and one of the heads of the nobility of Westphalia. ... Mystery plays or miracle plays are one of the earliest formally developed plays in medieval Europe. ... Saint Nicholas, also known as Nikolaus in Germany and Sinterklaas (a contracted form of Sint Nicolaas) in the Netherlands and Flanders, is the common name for the historical Saint Nicholas of Myra, who lived in 4th century Byzantine Anatolia, (now in modern Turkey) and had a reputation for secret gift... A thief is someone or something that performs theft, a crime against property. ...

Bodel was the first person of record to classify the legendary themes and literary cycles known to medieval literature into the the "Three Matters"; the "Matter of Rome", or retellings of stories from classical antiquity; the "Matter of Britain", concering King Arthur; and the "Matter of France", concerning Charlemagne and his paladins. Daniel Is a Legend by all means the greatesdt lookin man of our age!!! Kay Fee is a MINGA Sean is a A legend (Latin, legenda, things to be read) is a narrative of human actions that are perceived both by teller and listeners to take place within human history... Literary cycles are groups of stories grouped around common figures, based on mythical figures or loosely on historic ones. ... Medieval literature is a broad subject, encompassing essentially all written works available in Europe and beyond during the Middle Ages (encompassing the one-thousand years from the fall of the Western Roman Empire ca. ... According to the mediæval poet Jean Bodel, the Matter of Rome was the literary cycle made up of Greek and Roman mythology, together with episodes from the history of classical antiquity, focusing on military heroes like Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar. ... Classical antiquity is a broad and perhaps misleading term for a long period of European, Middle East and North African history, that begins roughly with the earliest recorded Greek poetry of Homer (7th century BC), and continues through the rise of Christianity and the fall of the Western Roman Empire... The Matter of Britain is a name given collectively to the legends that concern the Celtic and legendary history of the British Isles, centering around King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table. ... King Arthur is an important figure in the mythology of Great Britain, where he appears as the ideal of kingship in both war and peace. ... The Matter of France is a body of mythology and legend that springs from the Old French medieval literature of the chansons de geste. ... Charlemagne is also the name of a column in The Economist on European affairs Charlemagne (c. ... Roland is girt with a sword by Charlemagne; from a manuscript of a chanson de geste. ...

In 1202, Bodel contracted leprosy and entered a leprosarium. Events August 1 - Arthur of Brittany captured in Mirebeau, north of Poitiers Beginning of the Fourth Crusade. ... Father Damien was a Roman Catholic missionary who helped lepers on Hawaii and also died of the disease. ...