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The Horizons of Medieval French and Occitan
New Approaches to Manuscripts and Texts
Series: - Explorations in Medieval Culture, Volume: 28
This volume celebrates Simon Gauntâs 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 KarataÅ, Sarah Kay, Matthew Siôn Lampitt, Catherine Léglu, Peggy McCracken, Robert Mills, David Murray, Linda Paterson, Karen Pratt, Henry Ravenhall, and Simone Ventura.
Contributors are William Burgwinkle, Philippe Frieden, Jane Gilbert, Miranda Griffin, Alice Hazard, Thomas Hinton, Melek KarataÅ, Sarah Kay, Matthew Siôn Lampitt, Catherine Léglu, Peggy McCracken, Robert Mills, David Murray, Linda Paterson, Karen Pratt, Henry Ravenhall, and Simone Ventura.
Emma Campbell is Assistant Professor at George Washington University. Campbell has published on a broad range of medieval francophone texts, including major traditions such as saints' lives and bestiaries. Their most recent monograph is Reinventing Babel in Medieval French (OUP, 2023).
Luke Sunderland is Professor of French at Durham University and a scholar of medieval French literature. He has published two monographs, Old French Narrative Cycles (D.S. Brewer, 2010) and Rebel Barons (Oxford, 2017).
Luke Sunderland is Professor of French at Durham University and a scholar of medieval French literature. He has published two monographs, Old French Narrative Cycles (D.S. Brewer, 2010) and Rebel Barons (Oxford, 2017).
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Introduction: Reimagining the Horizons of Medieval French and Occitan
âEmma Campbell and Luke Sunderland
1 Language and Diversity in Walter de Bibbesworthâs Tretiz
âThomas Hinton
2 A Blue Banana? Picard, Occitan, and the Dimensions of European Literary History in Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, français 795
âDavid Murray
3 Warping the Sense to Detect the Norm
Linguistic (In)correctness and Competing Grammars in the Histoire ancienne jusquâà César (ThirteenthâFifteenth Centuries)
âSimone Ventura
4 A French Rose? On the Transmission and Reception of the Roman de la Rose
âPhilippe Frieden
5 Viewing Text and Palinode through the Lens of the Manuscripts: Authorial Autocitation and Scribal Editing in Jean Le Fèvreâs Livre de Leesce
âKaren Pratt
6 Silencing through Translation between Occitan, Latin and Catalan: the Revelations of Constance de Rabastens (fl. ca. 1384â1386)
âCatherine Léglu
7 Enjoying Sound, Song, and Supralocal French in Aristotleâs India
âSarah Kay
8 Singing in (Different) Tongues: Sonic and Formal Warfare in Langtoftâs âPolitical Songsâ
âJane Gilbert
9 Makers of Manuscripts as Readers of Manuscripts: the Montbaston Atelier and the Roman de la Rose
âMelek KarataÅ
10 Before Time: Cosmology and Embodiment in Arsenal 3516
âMiranda Griffin
11 Grief, Affect, and Embodiment in the Ovide moralisé
âPeggy McCracken
12 Animal Figures in the Bibles moralisées: Medieval Manuscript Culture and Biopolitics
âRobert 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
âHenry Ravenhall
14 The Modes of Avalon
âMatthew Siôn Lampitt
15 Tardif and Technics: Bernard Stieglerâs Technique in the Roman de Renart
âAlice Hazard
Afterword: We Have Never Been (Just) Medieval
âWilliam Burgwinkle
Bibliography of Work by Simon Gaunt
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Introduction: Reimagining the Horizons of Medieval French and Occitan
âEmma Campbell and Luke Sunderland
1 Language and Diversity in Walter de Bibbesworthâs Tretiz
âThomas Hinton
2 A Blue Banana? Picard, Occitan, and the Dimensions of European Literary History in Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, français 795
âDavid Murray
3 Warping the Sense to Detect the Norm
Linguistic (In)correctness and Competing Grammars in the Histoire ancienne jusquâà César (ThirteenthâFifteenth Centuries)
âSimone Ventura
4 A French Rose? On the Transmission and Reception of the Roman de la Rose
âPhilippe Frieden
5 Viewing Text and Palinode through the Lens of the Manuscripts: Authorial Autocitation and Scribal Editing in Jean Le Fèvreâs Livre de Leesce
âKaren Pratt
6 Silencing through Translation between Occitan, Latin and Catalan: the Revelations of Constance de Rabastens (fl. ca. 1384â1386)
âCatherine Léglu
7 Enjoying Sound, Song, and Supralocal French in Aristotleâs India
âSarah Kay
8 Singing in (Different) Tongues: Sonic and Formal Warfare in Langtoftâs âPolitical Songsâ
âJane Gilbert
9 Makers of Manuscripts as Readers of Manuscripts: the Montbaston Atelier and the Roman de la Rose
âMelek KarataÅ
10 Before Time: Cosmology and Embodiment in Arsenal 3516
âMiranda Griffin
11 Grief, Affect, and Embodiment in the Ovide moralisé
âPeggy McCracken
12 Animal Figures in the Bibles moralisées: Medieval Manuscript Culture and Biopolitics
âRobert 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
âHenry Ravenhall
14 The Modes of Avalon
âMatthew Siôn Lampitt
15 Tardif and Technics: Bernard Stieglerâs Technique in the Roman de Renart
âAlice Hazard
Afterword: We Have Never Been (Just) Medieval
âWilliam Burgwinkle
Bibliography of Work by Simon Gaunt
Bibliography
Index
Specialists of medieval French and Occitan literature and language, including undergraduates and postgraduates; specialists of medieval linguistics, art history and manuscripts.