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Subject(s)

• Art—History [Browse]
• French & Francophone [Browse]
• History [Browse]
• Literature and Cultural Studies [Browse]
• Literature, Arts & Science [Browse]
• Middle Ages [Browse]

Editor

• Campbell, Emma [Browse]
• Sunderland, Luke [Browse]

Series

• Explorations in Medieval Culture ; 28. [More in this series]
• Late Antiquity and Medieval Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025. [More in this series]
• Explorations in Medieval Culture ; 28 [More in this series]

Summary note

This volume celebrates Simon Gaunt’s scholarship by exploring the current boundaries and future directions of medieval French and Occitan literary criticism. The essays address questions of vital importance to these disciplines, including: What are the literary cultures and identities associated with supralocal vernacular languages? How do medieval manuscripts construct authorship, gendered identity, and voice in ways that range across genres and expressive registers? How do such codices mediate sensory experience and connect the textual, the visual, and the aural? How do French and Occitan texts negotiate the agencies of human and nonhuman bodies, and theorize emotions, sacrifice, and affect? Contributors are William Burgwinkle, Philippe Frieden, Jane Gilbert, Miranda Griffin, Alice Hazard, Thomas Hinton, Melek Karataş, Sarah Kay, Matthew Siôn Lampitt, Catherine Léglu, Peggy McCracken, Robert Mills, David Murray, Linda Paterson, Karen Pratt, Henry Ravenhall, and Simone Ventura.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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• Description based on print version record.

Language note

English

Contents

• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• List of Figures and Tables
• Introduction: Reimagining the Horizons of Medieval French and Occitan
• Emma Campbell and Luke Sunderland
• 1 Language and Diversity in Walter de Bibbesworth’s Tretiz
• Thomas Hinton
• 2 A Blue Banana? Picard, Occitan, and the Dimensions of European Literary History in Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, français 795
• David Murray
• 3 Warping the Sense to Detect the Norm
• Linguistic (In)correctness and Competing Grammars in the Histoire ancienne jusqu’à César (Thirteenth–Fifteenth Centuries)
• Simone Ventura
• 4 A French Rose? On the Transmission and Reception of the Roman de la Rose
• Philippe Frieden
• 5 Viewing Text and Palinode through the Lens of the Manuscripts: Authorial Autocitation and Scribal Editing in Jean Le Fèvre’s Livre de Leesce
• Karen Pratt
• 6 Silencing through Translation between Occitan, Latin and Catalan: the Revelations of Constance de Rabastens (fl. ca. 1384–1386)
• Catherine Léglu
• 7 Enjoying Sound, Song, and Supralocal French in Aristotle’s India
• Sarah Kay
• 8 Singing in (Different) Tongues: Sonic and Formal Warfare in Langtoft’s “Political Songs”
• Jane Gilbert
• 9 Makers of Manuscripts as Readers of Manuscripts: the Montbaston Atelier and the Roman de la Rose
• Melek Karataş
• 10 Before Time: Cosmology and Embodiment in Arsenal 3516
• Miranda Griffin
• 11 Grief, Affect, and Embodiment in the Ovide moralisé
• Peggy McCracken
• 12 Animal Figures in the Bibles moralisées : Medieval Manuscript Culture and Biopolitics
• Robert Mills
• 13 Reading Touch in Two Manuscripts of the Roman de Troie (with Jean-Luc Nancy)
• Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, français 60 and Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Reginensis Latinus 1505
• Henry Ravenhall
• 14 The Modes of Avalon
• Matthew Siôn Lampitt
• 15 Tardif and Technics: Bernard Stiegler’s Technique in the Roman de Renart
• Alice Hazard
• Afterword: We Have Never Been (Just) Medieval
• William Burgwinkle
• Bibliography of Work by Simon Gaunt
• Bibliography
• Index.

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Other title(s)

New Approaches to Manuscripts and Texts

ISBN

90-04-74131-3

OCLC

1572091467

Doi

• 10.1163/9789004741317

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