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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.

Life of the Fathers

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Old French literature --- Thematology

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The growth of urban life in the Middle Ages led to a flourishing of performance, drama and spectacle as we understand them today. Here is presented, for the first time, a collection of commissioned essays whose goal is to bring together a broad variety of interdisciplinary, innovative 'snapshots' from different geographical locations, time frames, traditions and scholarly fields. Contributors to Performance, Drama, Spectacle and the Medieval City are scholars of international prominence. Through their diverse interests, but single focus, the fundamental mobility of medieval culture is acknowledged. The collective aim in honouring Alan Hindley and his ongoing work is to produce a set of variations which offer diversity yet coherence. Performance and spectacle played a central role not only in the realm of urban entertainment, but also adopted enormously important civic and religious functions. The cities in the medieval west were both a hotbed of cultural manifestations, and elemental in the development of drama. In its refusal to accept subjective boundaries and its broad assumption that drama takes many forms, it is hoped that Performance, Drama, Spectacle and the Medieval City will find favour with its dedicatee, and imitate his wisdom and openness by enabling dialogue between traditions, critical approaches, and moments in time.

Theatrical science --- anno 500-1499 --- Drama, Medieval --- Theater --- Cities and towns, Medieval --- Théâtre médiéval --- Théâtre --- Villes médiévales --- History and criticism. --- History --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire --- Hindley, A. --- Hindley, Alan --- Cities and towns --- History and criticism --- 82-2 "04/14" --- 82-2 <4> --- 09 <082 HINDLEY, ALAN> --- Toneel. Drama--Middeleeuwen --- Toneel. Drama--Europa --- Handschriften. Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Curiosa--Feestbundels. Festschriften--HINDLEY, ALAN --- 82-2 "04/14" Toneel. Drama--Middeleeuwen --- Hindley, Alan. --- Théâtre médiéval --- Théâtre --- Villes médiévales --- Drama [Medieval ] --- Europe --- Medieval, 500-1500 --- Middle Ages, 500-1500 --- Drama, Medieval - History and criticism --- Theater - History - Medieval, 500-1500 --- Cities and towns - History - To 1500 --- Hindley, A. - Bibliography --- Moyen âge

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Semiotics --- Sociology of culture --- Literary semiotics --- History of civilization --- anno 500-1499