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The Old French Lays Of Ignaure Oiselet And Amours
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Book Synopsis The Old French Lays of Ignaure, Oiselet and Amours by : Glyn Sheridan Burgess
Download or read book The Old French Lays of Ignaure, Oiselet and Amours written by Glyn Sheridan Burgess and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2010 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New editions, with translations and introductions. The three narrative lays presented here form a sequel to the authors' French Arthurian Literature IV: Eleven Old French Narrative Lays, published in 2007. No new edition of Ignaure has appeared since 1938 and in the meantime this poem has generated a considerable amount of critical comment, especially as it provides the first full-length example in medieval European literature of the theme of the "Eaten Heart". Oiselet recounts abird's use of three truths as a means of escaping from the clutches of an uncultivated vilain. In the extant manuscripts these truths occur in two different orders, both of which are provided in the present edition. Amours, which follows the progress of a love affair between a nobleman and his beloved, has not been edited since 1878. All three poems challenge our understanding of the term "lay", especially if we regard the lays of Marie de France as defining the principal features of this genre. GLYN S. BURGESS is Emeritus Professor of French at the University of Liverpool; LESLIE C. BROOK is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in French at the University of Birmingham.
Book Synopsis Twenty-Four Lays from the French Middle Ages by :
Download or read book Twenty-Four Lays from the French Middle Ages written by and published by Exeter Studies in Medieval Eur. This book was released on 2016 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first complete collection of extant Medieval French Lays. Lays are short (typically 600-1000 lines), rhymed tales of love and chivalry.
Book Synopsis Anne de Graville and Women's Literary Networks in Early Modern France by : Elizabeth L'Estrange
Download or read book Anne de Graville and Women's Literary Networks in Early Modern France written by Elizabeth L'Estrange and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First detailed reconstruction of Anne de Graville's library, establishing her as one of the most well-read and erudite poets of the period. In the 1520s, the French noblewoman Anne de Graville composed two poetic works, based on older, canonical, male-authored texts: Giovanni Boccaccio's Teseida and Alain Chartier's Belle dame sans mercy. The first, the Beau roman, she offered to Claude, queen of France and wife of Francis I, and the second, the Rondeaux, to the king's mother, Louise of Savoy. With the pro-feminine spin of her rewritings, Anne developed the legacy of another woman writer from 100 years earlier, Christine de Pizan, by entering the on-going debate known as the querelle des femmes. Like Christine, Anne sought to redress the negative view of women found in much contemporary popular literature and to offer role models for both men and women at the contemporary court. This book is the first detailed reconstruction and interpretation of Anne's library and her collecting practice, showing how they relate to her own writings and her literary milieu. It also teases out her links to other women writers of the time interested in the querelle, such as Catherine d'Amboise and Margaret of Navarre. Paying close attention to literary, manuscript, and artistic sources, it establishes Anne's reputation as one of the most erudite poets of the period, and one keenly attuned to the position of women in society as well as to the political sensitivities of the French court.
Book Synopsis The Medieval French Ovide Moralisé by : K. Sarah-Jane Murray
Download or read book The Medieval French Ovide Moralisé written by K. Sarah-Jane Murray and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 1180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First English translation of one of the most influential French poems of the Middle Ages. The anonymous Ovide moralisé (Moralized Ovid), composed in France in the fourteenth century, retells and explicates Ovid's Metamorphoses, with generous helpings of related texts, for a Christian audience. Working from the premise that everything in the universe, including the pagan authors of Graeco-Roman Antiquity, is part of God's plan and expresses God's truth even without knowing it, the Ovide moralisé is a massive and influential work of synthesis and creativity, a remarkable window into a certain kind of medieval thinking. It is of major importance across time and across many disciplines, including literature, philosophy, theology, and art history. This three volume set offers an English translation of this hugely significant text - the first into any modern language. Based on the only complete edition to date, that by Cornelis de Boer and others completed in 1938, it also reflects more recent editions and numerous manuscripts. The translation is accompanied by a substantial introduction, situating the Ovide moralisé in terms of the reception of Ovid, the mythographical tradition, and its medieval French religious and intellectual milieu. Notes discuss textual problems and sources, and relate the text to key issues in the thought of theologians such as Bonaventure and Aquinas.
Book Synopsis Virgilian Identities in the French Renaissance by : Phillip John Usher
Download or read book Virgilian Identities in the French Renaissance written by Phillip John Usher and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2012 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Virgil's works, principally the Bucolics, the Georgics, and above all the Aeneid, were frequently read, translated and rewritten by authors of the French Renaissance. The contributors to this volume show how readers and writers entered into a dialogue with the texts, using them to grapple with such difficult questions as authorial, political and communitarian identities. It is demonstrated how Virgil's works are more than Ancient models to be imitated. They reveal themselves, instead, to be part of a vibrant moment of exchange central to the definition of literature at the time."--Back cover.
Book Synopsis The Futures of Medieval French by : Jane Gilbert
Download or read book The Futures of Medieval French written by Jane Gilbert and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on aspects of medieval French literature, celebrating the scholarship of Sarah Kay and her influence on the field.
Book Synopsis Constantinople and the West in Medieval French Literature by : Rima Devereaux
Download or read book Constantinople and the West in Medieval French Literature written by Rima Devereaux and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2012 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indepth examination of the presentation of Constantinople and its complex relationship with the west in medieval French texts. Medieval France saw Constantinople as something of a quintessential ideal city. Aspects of Byzantine life were imitated in and assimilated to the West in a movement of political and cultural renewal, but the Byzantine capital wasalso celebrated as the locus of a categorical and inimitable difference. This book analyses the debate between renewal and utopia in Western attitudes to Constantinople as it evolved through the twelfth and thirteenth centuries in a series of vernacular (Old French, Occitan and Franco-Italian) texts, including the Pèlerinage de Charlemagne, Girart de Roussillon, Partonopeus de Blois, the poetry of Rutebeuf, and the chronicles by Geoffroy de Villehardouin and Robert de Clari, both known as the Conquête de Constantinople. It establishes how the texts' representation of the West's relationship with Constantinople enacts this debate between renewal andutopia; demonstrates that analysis of this relationship can contribute to a discussion on the generic status of the texts themselves; and shows that the texts both react to the socio-cultural context in which they were produced, and fulfil a role within that context. Dr Rima Devereaux is an independent scholar based in London.
Book Synopsis The Logic of Idolatry in Seventeenth-century French Literature by : Ellen McClure
Download or read book The Logic of Idolatry in Seventeenth-century French Literature written by Ellen McClure and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2020 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Idolatry was one of the dominant and most contentious themes of early modern religious polemics. This book argues that many of the best-known literary and philosophical works of the French seventeenth century were deeply engaged and concerned with the theme. In a series of case studies and close readings, it shows that authors used the logic of idolatry to interrogate the fractured and fragile relationship between the divine and the human, with particular attention to the increasingly fraught question of the legitimacy of human agency. Reading d'Urf , Descartes, La Fontaine, S vign , Molire, and Racine through the lens of idolatry reveals heretofore hidden aspects of their work, all while demonstrating the link between the emergent autonomy of literature and philosophy and the confessional conflicts that dominated the period. In so doing, Professor McClure illustrates how religion can become a source of interpretive complexity, and how this dynamism can and should be taken into account in early modern French studies and beyond. ELLEN MCCLURE is Associate Professor of History and French, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Book Synopsis The Face and Faciality in Medieval French Literature, 1170-1390 by : Alice Hazard
Download or read book The Face and Faciality in Medieval French Literature, 1170-1390 written by Alice Hazard and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern theoretical approaches throw new light on the concepts of face and faciality in the Roman de la Rose and other French texts from the Middle Ages.
Book Synopsis Sacred Fictions of Medieval France by : Maureen Barry McCann Boulton
Download or read book Sacred Fictions of Medieval France written by Maureen Barry McCann Boulton and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2015 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the immensely popular "lives" of Christ and the Virgin in medieval France.
Book Synopsis Authorship and First-person Allegory in Late Medieval France and England by : Stephanie A. V. G. Kamath
Download or read book Authorship and First-person Allegory in Late Medieval France and England written by Stephanie A. V. G. Kamath and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2012 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of medieval vernacular allegories, across a number of languages, offers a new idea of what authorship meant in the late middle ages. The emergence of vernacular allegories in the middle ages, recounted by a first-person narrator-protagonist, invites both abstract and specific interpretations of the author's role, since the protagonist who claims to compose thenarrative also directs the reader to interpret such claims. Moreover, the specific attributes of the narrator-protagonist bring greater attention to individual identity. But as the actual authors of the allegories also adapted elements found in each other's works, their shared literary tradition unites differing perspectives: the most celebrated French first-person allegory, the erotic Roman de la Rose, quickly inspired an allegorical trilogy of spiritual pilgrimage narratives by Guillaume de Deguileville. English authors sought recognition for their own literary activity through adaptation and translation from a tradition inspired by both allegories. This account examines Deguileville's underexplored allegory before tracing the tradition's importance to the English authors Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Hoccleve, and John Lydgate, with particular attention to the mediating influence of French authors, including Christine de Pizan and Laurent de Premierfait. Through comparative analysis of the late medieval authors who shaped French and English literary canons, it reveals the seminal, communal model of vernacular authorship established by the tradition of first-person allegory. Stephanie A. Viereck Gibbs Kamath is Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
Book Synopsis Three Preludes to the Song of Roland by :
Download or read book Three Preludes to the Song of Roland written by and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English translation of three chansons de geste inspired by the Romance epic, the Song of Roland. The success of the eleventh-century Song of Roland gave rise to a series of around twenty related chansons de geste, known collectively as the Cycle of the King. In addition to reworkings of the Song of Roland in Old French and other medieval languages, these poems are devoted to the numerous military campaigns of Charlemagne against the Muslims before and after the tragic Battle of Roncevaux. These texts provide valuable insights into the medieval reception of the Roland material, exemplifying the process of cycle formation and attesting to the diversity of the Romance epic. Far from presenting a simplistic view of the clash of civilizations, these chansons de geste display a web of contradictions, offering both a glorification and a critique of hatred and violence. This volume offers the first English translations of the three epic poems whose action directly precedes the events of the Song of Roland. Gui of Burgundy extends the period of time spent in Spain by Charles and his army from seven to twenty-six years, which gives the sons of the Twelve Peers the opportunity to reach adulthood and come to the rescue of their fathers. Roland at Saragossa, composed in Occitan, takes place in the days immediately preceding the decisive defeat and relates in an heroi-comic manner how Roland sneaks into Saragossa at the request of the pagan Queen Braslimonda, who has been enraptured by his strength and beauty. Finally, Otinel tells of a Saracen envoy who comes to Paris to challenge Charlemagne on behalf of the Emir Garsile, who has his capital in Lombardy. The action takes place in France and northern Italy in a lull between the capture of Pamplona and the defeat at Roncevaux. The translations are presented with notes, and the volume includes an introduction placing the poems in their wider historical and cultural contexts.
Book Synopsis Unsettling Montaigne by : Elizabeth Guild
Download or read book Unsettling Montaigne written by Elizabeth Guild and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2014 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Striking new readings of Montaigne's works, focussing on such concepts as scepticism and tolerance.
Book Synopsis Telling the Story in the Middle Ages by : Kathryn A. Duys
Download or read book Telling the Story in the Middle Ages written by Kathryn A. Duys and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2015 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New examinations of the role storytelling played in medieval life.
Book Synopsis Machaut and the Medieval Apprenticeship Tradition by : Douglas Kelly
Download or read book Machaut and the Medieval Apprenticeship Tradition written by Douglas Kelly and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2014 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guillaume de Machaut was celebrated in the later Middle Ages as a supreme poet and composer, and accordingly, his poetry was recommended as a model for aspiring poets. In his 'Voir dit, toute belle', a young, aspiring poet, convinces the Machaut figure to mentor her. This volume examines 'Toute belle' as she masters Machaut's dual arts of poetry and love, focusing on her successful apprenticeship in these arts; it also provides a thorough review of Machaut's art of love and art of poetry in his dits and lyricsm, and the previous scholarship on these topics. It goes on to treat Machaut's legacy among poets who, like 'Toute belle', adapted his poetic craft in new and original ways. A concluding analysis of melodie identifies the synaesthetic pleasure that late medieval poets, including Machaut, offer their readers.
Book Synopsis Representing the Dead by : Helen J. Swift
Download or read book Representing the Dead written by Helen J. Swift and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of how the dead were memorialised in late medieval French literature.
Book Synopsis Founding Feminisms in Medieval Studies by : Laine E. Doggett
Download or read book Founding Feminisms in Medieval Studies written by Laine E. Doggett and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays using feminist approaches to offer fresh insights into aspects of the texts and the material culture of the middle ages.
