Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner: A Bibliography
- Part I Shaping Real and Fictive Courts
- Part II Shaping Courtly Narrative
- Meraugis de Portlesguez and the Limits of Courtliness
- The Art of “Transmutation” in the Burgundian Prose Cligés (1454): Bringing the Siege of Windsor Castle to Life for the Court of Philip the Good
- Thomas's Raisun: Désir, Vouloir, Pouvoir
- Humanimals: The Future of Courtliness in the Conte du Papegau
- A Matter of Life or Death: Fecundity and Sterility in Marie de 139 France's Guigemar
- Le Roman de la Rose, Performed in Court
- Part III Shaping Women's Voices in Medieval France
- Part IV Shaping the Courtly Other
- Envoi
- List of Contributors
- Index
- Tabula Gratulatoria
- Already Published
Le Roman de la Rose, Performed in Court
from Part II - Shaping Courtly Narrative
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner: A Bibliography
- Part I Shaping Real and Fictive Courts
- Part II Shaping Courtly Narrative
- Meraugis de Portlesguez and the Limits of Courtliness
- The Art of “Transmutation” in the Burgundian Prose Cligés (1454): Bringing the Siege of Windsor Castle to Life for the Court of Philip the Good
- Thomas's Raisun: Désir, Vouloir, Pouvoir
- Humanimals: The Future of Courtliness in the Conte du Papegau
- A Matter of Life or Death: Fecundity and Sterility in Marie de 139 France's Guigemar
- Le Roman de la Rose, Performed in Court
- Part III Shaping Women's Voices in Medieval France
- Part IV Shaping the Courtly Other
- Envoi
- List of Contributors
- Index
- Tabula Gratulatoria
- Already Published
Summary
What a pleasure to be honoring Matilda, whom I have known for a very long time, and to be thinking – with her decades-long interests in mind – both about medieval court culture and about performance. I loved the piece she did for Cultural Performances in Medieval France, the Festschrift for Nancy Freeman Regalado: “The Pitfalls and Promise of Classroom Performance.”
So here's to you, Matilda!
For us today, The Romance of the Rose is a book, as it was for many people in the Middle Ages as well. It is likely that a wide variety of reading and reception practices were involved in the presentation of the Rose to medieval audiences. I have worked on some of these issues myself. I have argued that the Rose lent itself to “erotic reading”: that is, reading aloud in intimate settings by a man and a woman, one to another – a courtly reading practice that promoted love and couple-formation; I have also argued that divergent, and evolving, reading and performance practices may have fed the famous “querelle du Roman de la Rose.”
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- Shaping Courtliness in Medieval FranceEssays in Honor of Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner, pp. 151 - 162Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2013