Les romans moyen-anglais Octavian et le bone Florence of Rome: convergences thématiques ou vestiges d'un cycle perdu?

This article reconsiders several points of contact between the Middle English tail-rhyme romances Octavian (in its northern as well as its southern versions) and Le Bone Florence of Rome, which survive in fifteenth-century manuscripts. By analysing their literary and textual relations and comparing them with their French sources and the latter’s adaptations, it offers a glimpse of an epic cycle that may have existed in England in a period predating the witnesses that have come down to us.