The Horizons of Medieval French and Occitan

New Approaches to Manuscripts and Texts
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-73537-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 28, 392 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Explorations in Medieval Culture

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 Karatas, Sarah Kay, Matthew Siôn Lampitt, Catherine Léglu, Peggy McCracken, Robert Mills, David Murray, Linda Paterson, Karen Pratt, Henry Ravenhall, and Simone Ventura.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Campbell, Emma

Sunderland, Luke

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Völkerwanderung und Mittelalter
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Byzantinisch
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Karatas

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).