Quand la chanson de croisade se compose en cycle. Expériences d’écritures françaises et occitanes

This paper considers the process of cyclic writing in epic crusade songs. Examining first the well-known French corpus, and then the more unfamiliar Occitan texts, the author proposes to identify an Occitan Crusade cycle composed of three texts : the Occitan Canso d’Antioca, the Albigensian Crusade Song, and the Navarra War Poem. She studies how this cycle is formed and by which critical criteria it can be identified. She stresses the specificities of this Occitan corpus and its cyclization in comparison to the French one, highlighting the pivotal role that the two parts of the Albigensian Crusade Song had in establishing the Occitan Crusade cycle.