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These articles are mainly concerned with medieval French literature, particularly those areas in which the honor and of the volume, Rupert T. Pickens, has distinguished himself: Old French Arthurian romance, Marie de France, chanson de geste, later poetry (including Villon), and the Occitan troubadour lyric. Among the contributors are some of the most significant scholars from the U.S.A., Canada, France, Switzerland, and the U.K. working in Old French studies today. The volume will be of interest to specialists in Old French, Occitan, and medieval literature generally. Some of the articles deal with relatively unknown works, and all are informed by current developments in medieval literary studies..
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This book offers a close analysis of the Old French fabliaux, that medieval corpus of short comic tales in narrative verse celebrated (sometimes notorious) for their irreverence and sexual content It picks out certain key images - such as gambling, illness, and damnation - which develop into themes and motifs running through all the texts, and which add layers of ironic patterning to the essential subject-matter and narrative of each fabliau. These elements, in many respects the 'small print' of the joke, furnish the comic text with many rhythms and echoes, all contributing to the ludic, adversarial nature of the text. They are extremely flexible, serving as a rhetoric of depiction that extends from broad comic motif to the lightest triggering of a mocking smile.
This volume will be of interest to all students of medieval culture, Old French literature, and the development of the short or comic narrative..
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Christine de Pizan (ca. 1364-ca. 1430)-whether read as lyric poet, prose polemicist or historian, feminist or universal moralist-has over the past thirty years become more widely read than any other medieval French author. The attraction of her works continues to grow amongst the general public, as well as among critics and historians of literature, ideas, science and the visual arts, political scientists and philologists, and specialists in feminist theory. Christine intrigues readers by her intellectual paradoxes as much as by her prefiguration of modern attitudes by and toward women.

This collection of essays honours Angus J. Kennedy, an illustrious scholar who has greatly contributed to fostering this modern growth in interest. The editors here present a significant sampling of varieties of inquiry on Christine: a broad range of contributors, from around the world, represent different approaches and levels of experience. The volume contains two indexes, and a bibliography structured to serve as an integrated and integral reference source to pertinent primary and secondary materials.

This volume thus charts the progress of Christine de Pizan studies at the start of the new millenium. True to the spirit of its honoree, it also aims to serve as a gateway to future research..
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Cette étude sur les conditions d’émergence de la narration française propose aux spécialistes de la Renaissance et du texte narratif une réflexion théorique sur la notion de «roman» : désigne-t-elle à la Renaissance un genre littéraire proprement dit? le cas échéant, quels en seraient les contours poétiques? L’idée du roman, c’est-à-dire celle du geste fictionnel pleinement assumé par l’auteur, est-elle elle-même discutée par les auteurs de l’époque? Dans quel but? De quelle manière? Nous tentons d’apporter une réponse à ces questions en confrontant les discours théoriques à la production textuelle. Qu’en est-il par ailleurs de la réception de ces «longues oeuvres» : qui a pu conférer ces étiquettes de «roman», d’«histoire» ou d’«épopée» à différents textes et quels critères ont pu être déterminants? Ce deuxième volet de notre réflexion étudie la place qui est réservée aux concepts de vérité et de vraisemblance de même qu’à leurs corrélats obligés du faux et de l’invraisemblance..
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Here is presented for the first time an extraordinary medieval text, the first Old French Vie des Pères. The Vie des Pères is in fact a collective text comprising three branches and, at its fullest, over seventy individually enclosed pious tales / miracles. The first Vie – the first forty-one or -two tales – dates from the first third of the thirteenth century. It is a vitally significant but hitherto neglected part of the Old French canon. Indeed, in his preface to this volume Michel Zink, one of the most respected medievalists of his generation, notes that the qualities of the Vie des Pèrs ‘devraient valoir à son auteur une place au voisinage de celle qu’occupent pour nous celui de la Chanson de Roland ou Chrétien de Troyes.’ The tales are remarkably well written and offer fascinating glimpses of thirteenth-century life and spirituality. They were also extremely popular in Medieval France. Sharing close links with a number of traditions – fabliaux, Saints’ Lives, Miracles of the Virgin, Romance, Sermons – the Vie des Pères has value for those interested in many branches of vernacular literature, codicology, lexicography, art history, theology and philology. Tales of Vice and Virtue – the first sustained analysis of the entire first Vie des Pères to be published – is a groundbreaking book providing readers new to the text with detailed commentaries, offering abundant intertextual information for romance philologists, and suggesting many new areas for further research..
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La plupart des sermons de saint Bernard en prose française du XIIe siÈcle sont prÉsentÉs au public pour la premiÈre fois. L'intÉrÊt de ce texte est triple. En premier lieu, de provenance wallonne, il permet de cerner de prÈs des traits dialectaux À une date assez haute, et surtout des faits lexicaux. En second lieu, en tant que traduction fidÈle mais idiomatique du latin original, il constitue un rÉservoir d'informations pour ceux qui s'intÉressent À la thÉorie et À la pratique de la traduction. Finalement, en tant que texte Écrit en prose, il constitue un fonds indispensable pour une Étude Éventuelle de la syntaxe française du XIIe qui ne dÉpendra pas excessivement des donnÉes fournies par les textes poÉtiques de l'Époque. L'Édition comporte une Introduction portant essentiellement sur la langue du manuscrit, une table de leçons non conservÉes, des notes, et un glossaire assez exhaustif.
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Le Roman de la Manekine marks the beginning of its author's literary career. Philippe de Remi, on whom much attention has focused in the last two decades, was an unusual figure: a 13th-century land-holder and professional administrator who loved literature and who produced a large and varied corpus of narrative and lyric. Here is presented for the first time since 1884 a scholarly edition of Philippe's first romance, a tale centering on a heroine of great courage and integrity who passes through many trials without losing hope.
The text is accompanied by a line-by-line English version, and by extensive commentary touching on the author, his milieu, and the literary context and major themes of the romance. Studies of the manuscript (Paris BNF fr 1588), its illustrations (all of them reproduced), and its history, have been provided by Alison Stones and Roger Middleton. The volume should be of interest to specialists in medieval French literature, to general readers who find English translations useful, and to scholars in the fields of medieval art and manuscript history.
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