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- Also spelled:
- geste
- Related Topics:
- narrative
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Also known as: geste
gest, a story of achievements or adventures. Among several famous medieval collections of gests are Fulcher of Chartres’s Gesta Francorum, Saxo Grammaticus’s Gesta Danorum, and the compilation known as the Gesta Romanorum. The term was also used to refer to a romance in verse.
The word is ultimately from the Latin gesta, meaning “deeds” or “exploits.”
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