Guillaume d’Angleterre et Guillaume de Palerne, le nom de Guillaume et la parodie

Two hypotheses are examined: 1) the name “Guillaume” in Guillaume de Palerne and Guillaume d’Angleterre indicates intertextuality with Jean Renart’s romances and a poetic practice based on poetic diversion; 2) this name contributes to build a horizon of expectation which establishes Le Roman de la Rose, L’Escoufle, Guillaume de Palerne and Guillaume d’Angleterre as a corpus that can be designated as “romans de Guillaume” whose major characteristic is the parodic practice.