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Anne de Graville and Women's Literary Networks in Early Modern France
  • Elizabeth L'Estrange
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    11 January 2024
    Print publication:
    11 April 2023
  • First detailed reconstruction of Anne de Graville's library, establishing her as one of the most well-read and erudite poets of the period.

Marguerite de Navarre
  • A Critical Companion
  • Emily Butterworth
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    20 December 2023
    Print publication:
    08 April 2022
  • A new exploration of the complexities and resolutions at play in the writings of Marguerite de Navarre, offering insights into how her work reflected the turbulence, uncertainties, and assurances of her historical period.

Three Preludes to the Song of Roland
  • Gui of Burgundy, Roland at Saragossa, and Otinel
  • Translated by William W. Kibler, Catherine M. Jones
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    17 December 2023
    Print publication:
    18 July 2023
  • First English translation of the complete versions of three 'chansons de geste' inspired by the Romance epic, the Song of Roland.

Machaut and the Medieval Apprenticeship Tradition

Translation and Temporality in Benoît de Sainte-Maure's Roman de Troie

Telling the Story in the Middle Ages
  • Essays in Honor of Evelyn Birge Vitz
  • Edited by Laurie Postlewate, Kathryn A. Duys, Elizabeth Emery
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    17 June 2021
    Print publication:
    18 June 2015
  • Much of our modern understanding of medieval society and cultures comes through the stories people told and the way they told them. Storytelling was, for this period, not only entertainment; it was central to the law, religious ritual and teaching, as well as the primary mode of delivering news. The essays in this volume raise and discuss a number of questions concerning the strategies, contexts and narratalogical features of medieval storytelling. They look particularly at who tells the story; the audience; how a story is told and performed; and the manuscript and social context for such tales. Laurie Postlewate is Senior Lecturer, Department of French, Barnard College; Kathryn Duys is Associate Professor, Department of English and Foreign Languages, University of St Francis; Elizabeth Emery is Professor of French, Montclair State University.

Representing the Dead
  • Epitaph Fictions in Late-Medieval France
  • Helen J. Swift
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    17 June 2021
    Print publication:
    20 October 2016
  • Who am I when I am dead? Several late-medieval French writers used literary representation of the dead as a springboard for exploring the nature of human being. Death is a critical moment for identity definition: one is remembered, forgotten or, worse, misremembered. Works in prose and verse by authors from Alain Chartier to Jean Bouchet record characters' deaths, but what distinguishes them as epitaph fictions is not their commemoration of the deceased, so much as their interrogation of how, by whom, and to what purpose posthumous identity is constituted. Far from rigidly memorialising the dead, they exhibit a productive messiness in the processes by which identity is composed in the moment of its decomposition as a complex interplay between body, voice and text. The cemeteries, hospitals, temples and testaments of fifteenth- and early-sixteenth-century literature, from the "Belle Dame sans mercy" querelle to Le Jugement poetic de l'honneur femenin, present a wealth of ambulant corpses, disembodied voices, animated effigies, martyrs for love and material echoes of the past which invite readers to approach epitaphic identity as a challenging question: here lies who, exactly? In its broadest context, this study casts fresh light on ideas of selfhood in medieval culture as well as on contemporary conceptions of the capacities and purposes of literary representationitself.

    Helen Swift is Associate Professor of Medieval French at St Hilda's College, Oxford.

Sacred Fictions of Medieval France

The Futures of Medieval French

The Face and Faciality in Medieval French Literature, 1170–1390
  • Alice Hazard
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    17 April 2021
    Print publication:
    21 May 2021
  • Modern theoretical approaches thrown new light on the concepts of face and faciality in the Roman de la Rose and other French texts from the Middle Ages.

The Logic of Idolatry in Seventeenth-Century French Literature
  • Ellen McClure
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    28 April 2020
    Print publication:
    17 April 2020
  • A sensitive investigation into how French writers, including Descartes and Racine, treated a central preoccupation in early modern writings.

Representing Mental Illness in Late Medieval France
  • Machines, Madness, Metaphor
  • Volume 43
  • Julie Singer
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    15 October 2019
    Print publication:
    19 October 2018
  • An exploration of the medieval mind as a machine, and how it might be affected and immobiled, in textual reactions to the madness of Charles VI of France.

The Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure
  • A Translation
  • Translated by Glyn S. Burgess, Douglas Kelly
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    15 February 2018
    Print publication:
    30 June 2017
  • Benoît de Sainte-Maure's Roman de Troie, dating to around 1165, is, along with the Roman de Thèbes and the Roman d'Eneas, one of the three "romances of antiquity" (romans d'antiquité). These romances launched the plots, themes and structures of the genre, then blossoming in the hands of authors such as Chrétien de Troyes. As an account of the Trojan War, Benoît's work is of necessity a poem about war and its causes, how it was fought and what its consequences were for the combatants. But the author's choice of the octosyllabic rhyming couplet, his fondness for description, his ability to recount the intensity of personal struggles, and above all his fascination with the trials and tribulations of Love, which affect some of the work's most prominent warriors (among them Paris and his love for Helen, and Troilus and his love for Briseida), all combine to fashion this romance - in which events from long ago are presented as a reflection of the poet's own feudal and courtly worlds. This translation, the first into English, aims to bring the poem and the author to a wider audience. It is accompanied by an introduction and notes. Glyn S. Burgess is Emeritus Professor of French at the University of Liverpool; Douglas Kelly is Emeritus Professor of French and Medieval Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Poetry, Knowledge and Community in Late Medieval France
  • Edited by Rebecca Dixon, Finn E. Sinclair
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    25 October 2017
    Print publication:
    20 November 2008
  • Covering the period from the late thirteenth to the early sixteenth century, Poetry, Knowledge, and Community examines the role of poetry in French culture in transmitting and shaping knowledge. The volume reveals the interplay between poet, text, and audience, and explores the key dynamics of later medieval French poetry and of the communities in which it was produced.
    Essays in both English and French are organised into three inter-related sections, "Learned Poetry/ Poetry and Learning", "Poetry or Prose?", and "Poetic Communities", and address both canonical and less well-known French and Occitan verse literature, together with a wide range of complementary subject areas. The international cast of contributors to the volume includes many of the best-known scholars in the field: the introductory essay is by Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet (Université de Paris IV, Sorbonne), and keynote essays are provided by David F. Hult (University of California, Berkeley), Michel Zink (Collège de France), and Nancy Freeman Regalado (New York University).

    Edited by REBECCA DIXON (University of Manchester) and FINN E. SINCLAIR (University of Cambridge), with Adrian Armstrong (University of Manchester), Sylvia Huot (University of Cambridge), and Sarah Kay (University of Princeton).

    CONTRIBUTORS: Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Mishtooni Bose, Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, Rebecca Dixon, Thelma Fenster, Denis Hüe, David Hult, Stephanie Kamath, Deborah McGrady, Amandine Mussou, Nancy Freeman Regalado, Jennifer Saltzstein, Finn E. Sinclair, Lori J. Walters, David Wrisley, Michel Zink

Chartier in Europe
  • With contributions by Barbara K. Altmann , Julia Boffey , Florence Bouchet , William Calin , Douglas Kelly , Joan McRae , Catherine Nall , Clara Pascual-Argente and Dana Symons
  • Edited by Emma Cayley, Ashby Kinch
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    24 October 2017
    Print publication:
    18 September 2008
  • Chartier in Europe is the first sustained enquiry into the distinctive influence of the fifteenth-century French poet and diplomat, Alain Chartier, on the reading and writing cultures of England, Italy, Scotland, and Spain, as well as France. Opening with essays that assess Chartier's own construction of an authoritative voice, the volume then analyses the transmission and reception context of his Latin and French prose and poetry, and examines the ways in which the translation of his work into other vernaculars shaped his burgeoning reputation. Established and younger scholars from the fields of English, French, History, Scottish and Hispanic studies build a cross-disciplinary approach that illuminates Chartier's importance not only in the realm of French literature but in the evolution of a wider European literature. In addition, Chartier in Europe presents a full bibliography of published work on Chartier and includes a foreword by James Laidlaw, the first modern editor of Chartier's complete French poetical works.

    EMMA CAYLEY is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Exeter; ASHBY KINCH is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Montana.

    OTHER CONTRIBUTORS: Barbara K. Altmann, Julia Boffey, Florence Bouchet, William Calin, Douglas Kelly, James Laidlaw, Joan E. McRae, Catherine Nall, Clara Pascual-Argente, Dana Symons.

Cultural Performances in Medieval France
  • Essays in Honor of Nancy Freeman Regalado
  • With contributions by Anne Azéma , Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski , Cynthia J. Brown , Elizabeth A. R. Brown , Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner , Ardis Butterfield , Kimberlee Campbell , Robert L. A. Clark , Mark Cruse , Kathryn A. Duys , Sylvia Huot , Marilyn Lawrence , Kathleen A. Loysen , Laurie Postlewate , Edward H. Roesner , Samuel N. Rosenberg , Lucy Freeman Sandler , Pamela Sheingorn , Helen Solterer , Jane H. M. Taylor , Evelyn Birge Vitz , Lori J. Walters and Michel Zink
  • Edited by E. Jane Burns, Eglal Doss-Quinby, Roberta L. Krueger
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    24 October 2017
    Print publication:
    15 March 2007
  • This collection of essays pays tribute to Nancy Freeman Regalado, a ground-breaking scholar in the field of medieval French literature whose research has always pushed beyond disciplinary boundaries. The articles in the volume reflect the depth and diversity of her scholarship, as well as her collaborations with literary critics, philologists, historians, art historians, musicologists, and vocalists - in France, England, and the United States. Inspired by her most recent work, these twenty-four essays are tied together by a single question, rich in ramifications: how does performance shape our understanding of medieval and pre-modern literature and culture, whether the nature of that performance is visual, linguistic, theatrical, musical, religious, didactic, socio-political, or editorial? The studies presented here invite us to look afresh at the interrelationship of audience, author, text, and artifact, to imagine new ways of conceptualizing the creation, transmission, and reception of medieval literature, music, and art.

    EGLAL DOSS-QUINBY is Professor of French at Smith College; ROBERTA L. KRUEGER is Professor of French at Hamilton College; E. JANE BURNS is Professor of Women's Studies and Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

    Contributors: ANNE AZÉMA, RENATE BLUMENFELD-KOSINSKI, CYNTHIA J. BROWN, ELIZABETH A. R. BROWN, MATILDA TOMARYN BRUCKNER, E. JANE BURNS, ARDIS BUTTERFIELD, KIMBERLEE CAMPBELL, ROBERT L. A. CLARK, MARK CRUSE, KATHRYN A. DUYS, ELIZABETH EMERY, SYLVIA HUOT, MARILYN LAWRENCE, KATHLEEN A. LOYSEN, LAURIE POSTLEWATE, EDWARD H. ROESNER, SAMUEL N. ROSENBERG, LUCY FREEMAN SANDLER, PAMELA SHEINGORN, HELEN SOLTERER, JANE H. M. TAYLOR, EVELYN BIRGE VITZ, LORI J. WALTERS, AND MICHEL ZINK.

Old French Narrative Cycles
  • Heroism between Ethics and Morality
  • Luke Sunderland
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    09 May 2017
    Print publication:
    15 April 2010
  • This is a study of four colossal medieval works - the Cycle de Guillaume d'Orange, the Vulgate Cycle, the Prose Tristan and the Roman de Renart - which are normally considered separately. By placing them side-by-side for analysis, Luke Sunderland is able to argue for an aesthetic of cyclicity that cuts across genre. He combines detailed readings of the narrative infrastructure of each cycle with attention to the shifts and transformations that come with successive acts of rewriting.
    Old French Narrative Cycles focuses in particular on revisions and controversies around heroic figures, arguing that competition between alternative heroes within these texts makes them a discourse on heroism. Using a theoretical framework deriving from Lacanian psychoanalysis, the study reveals anxieties surrounding the hero's relationship to the "good": the hero oscillates between support for moral ideals and subversive assertions of freedom that can lead to evil and death. Ultimately, it is contended that the instability of the hero as conduit for morality produces textual confusion and generates the myriad differing versions of these vast and perplexing works.

    LUKE SUNDERLAND is Lecturer in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Durham.

Miraculous Rhymes
  • The Writing of Gautier de Coinci
  • Tony Hunt
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    29 April 2017
    Print publication:
    19 September 2007
  • The well-connected, northern-French monk and musician Gautier de Coinci (1177/8-1236) occupies an unassailable position as one of the most exceptional vernacular writers of the Middle Ages, concerning whom there is nevertheless no full length study in English. In a meticulously planned and supervised collection of miracles of Our Lady, which survive in a remarkable number of manuscripts, some beautifully illustrated, Gautier deploys his outstanding talents as a composer of songs, an acerbic satirist, an audacious inventor of rich and equivocal rhymes (of a virtuosity unparalleled before the "Grands Rhetoriqueurs" on the eve of the Renaissance), a confident lexical innovator, an exuberant exponent of rhetorical wordplay, an incisive observer of contemporary society, and a man of profound personal piety.
    This study of word-patterning in Gautier seeks to compensate for the dearth of stylistic studies of Old French and to examine in detail the relationship between rhetoric and religion, "courtoisie" and Mariolatry, aristocratic tastes and the way to spiritual renewal. Gautier's writing strategy is shown to be a means to rise beyond secular, aristocratic values by building on them and transcending them rather than opposing and rejecting them.

    TONY HUNT is a Fellow of St Peter's College, Oxford.

The Cultural and Political Legacy of Anne de Bretagne
  • Negotiating Convention in Books and Documents
  • With contributions by Diane E. Booton , Elizabeth A. R. Brown , Nicole Hochner , Elizabeth L'Estrange , Michel Nassiet , Michelle Szkilnik , Malcolm Walsby , Lori J. Walters and Kathleen Wilson-Chevalier
  • Edited by Cynthia J. Brown
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    28 April 2017
    Print publication:
    20 May 2010
  • As duchess of Brittany [1491-1514] and twice queen of France [1491-98; 1498-1514], Anne de Bretagne set a benchmark by which to measure the status of female authority in Europe at the dawn of the Renaissance. Although at times a traditional political pawn, when men who ruled her life were involved in reshaping European alliances, Anne was directly or indirectly involved with the principal political and religious European leaders of her time and helped define the cultural landscape of her era.
    Taking a variety of cross-disciplinary perspectives, these ten essays by art historians, literary specialists, historians, and political scientists contribute to the ongoing discussion of Anne de Bretagne and seek to prompt further investigations into her cultural and political impact. At the same time, they offer insight of a broader nature into related areas of intellectual interest - patronage, the history of the book, the power and definition of queenship and the interpretation of politico-cultural documents and court spectacles - thereby confirming the extensive nature of Anne's legacy.

    CYNTHIA J. BROWN is Professor of French at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Lettering the Self in Medieval and Early Modern France
  • Katherine Kong
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    28 April 2017
    Print publication:
    15 July 2010
  • Lettering the Self argues that letters in medieval and early-modern France reveal the contours of the pre-modern self. Letters in this period were complicated compositions which, in addition to their administrative and artistic functions, represented the self in relation to its various others: social superiors and subordinates; friends and lovers; teachers and students; allies and adversaries; patrons and supplicants. These relationships were expressed in the content and form of letters: the rule-bound medieval discipline of letter writing structured the expression of interpersonal relationships in exacting ways, and writers navigated its rules to express contradictory and even illicit relations.
    Each chapter focuses on a particular epistolary exchange in its intellectual and cultural context, from Baudri of Bourgueil and Constance of Angers, through Heloise and Abelard, Christine de Pizan's participation in the querelle du Roman de la rose, Marguerite de Navarre and Guillaume Briçonnet, to Michel de Montaigne and Étienne de La Boétie, emphasizing the importance of letter-writing in pre-modern French culture and tracing a selective yet significant history of the letter, contributing to our understanding of the development of the epistolary genre, and the pre-modern self.

    KATHERINE KONG is an Assistant Professor of French at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

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