V - Individual Works: Manuscripts, Editions, Translations, and Critical Studies

Summary

For additional material on individual works, see the studies listed in Chapter II(b); for thematic and formal studies of poems from more than one work, see also Chapter III(h); for alphabetical list of titles as they appear in this chapter, see Table of Contents. It should be noted that no cross-references are given to incomplete editions or selections listed in Chapter IV.

Autres ballades

Critical Studies

See also Cerquiglini-Toulet, 1081; Van Hemelryck, 1281; Kosta-Théfaine, 1286; Blumenfeld-Kosinski, 1400; Margolis, 1440; Ehrhart, 1666; Tarnowski, 1878; Cerquiglini-Toulet, 1934; Walters, 1944; Willard, 1982.

1523 Deyermond, Alan. ‘Sexual Initiation in the Woman’s-Voice Court Lyric’, in Courtly Literature: Culture and Context: Selected Papers from the 5th Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society (Dalfsen, The Netherlands, 9–16 August 1986), ed. Keith Busby & Erik Kooper, Amsterdam: John Benjamins (Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature, 25), 1990, pp. 125–58.

In a perceptive survey of the theme of sexual initiation that combines both wide coverage of source material and close engagement with specific texts, gives a detailed analysis of Autres ballades, XXVI: (‘Doulce chose est que mariage’), suggesting that it ‘is one of the most subtle and moving poems of married love in any medieval language’ (p. 153). For item in this volume already covered, see Willard, 862.

1524 Laidlaw, James C. ‘L’actualité dans les premières Autres Balades’, in Au champ des escriptures, 1511, pp. 771–80.

Examination of the collection of twenty-nine poems in the first version of the Autres ballades in the Livre de Christine, Chantilly, Musée Condé 492–93, ff. 27^r–4^v, demonstrating how these reflect contemporary reality and CP’s own concerns over the years 1399–1402 (e.g. the King’s intermittent madness, the position of women, the rivalry between princes of the blood, CP’s attempts to cultivate good relationships with patrons, particularly with the Houses of Orleans and Berry, and the Queen, Isabeau de Bavière). Notes that there is no mention of the House of Burgundy in this first version.

1525 Margolis, Nadia. ‘The Poem’s Progress: Christine’s Autres Balades no. 42 and the Fortunes of a Text’, in Christine 2000, 1510, pp. 251–62 (notes, pp. 336–38).