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Roman de Guiron parte prima
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Year: 2020 Publisher: Florence SISMEL/Edizioni del Galluzzo

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Le cycle de Guiron le Courtois, composé sans doute à partir de 1230 et en plusieurs étapes, est le dernier grand roman arthurien en prose française à rester inédit. Guiron le Courtois consiste en effet en plusieurs œuvres caractérisée par une tradition textuelle complexe : le Meliadus, le Roman de Guiron et la Suite Guiron. Le Meliadus et le Guiron ont été conçus indépendamment l’un de l’autre ; en outre, dans leur état initial, ils n’ont sans doute jamais été achevés, ce qui explique la tradition textuelle assez éclatée et, en particulier, la multitude de « raccords » et de « suites » destinés à combler les interstices. Une édition critique de l’ensemble du cycle est actuellement en cours. Ceci est le premier volume du Roman de Guiron propre, qui en comportera trois. Le texte est précédé d’une introduction, comportant la description des manuscrits, une analyse de la tradition textuelle, une étude littéraire, un examen de la langue du manuscrit. Il est suivi de notes, d’un glossaire et d’un index des noms propres.


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Onomastics of the "Chanson de Roland" : Or: Why Gaston Paris and Joseph Bédier were both right
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ISBN: 3110764466 3110745909 Year: 2023 Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter,

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This ambitious study of all proper names in the Chanson de Roland is based for the first time on a systematic survey of the whole geographical and historical literature from antiquity to after 1100 for the Geographica, and on working through (almost) the entire documentary tradition of France and its neighbouring regions from 778 to the early 12th century for the personal names. The overall result is clear: the surviving song is more tightly and profoundly structured, even in smaller scenes, than generally assumed, it is also richer in depicting reality, and it has a very long prehistory, which can be traced in outline, albeit with decreasing certainty, (almost) back to the Frankish defeat of 778. Here are some individual results: for the first time, a detailed (and ultimately simple!) explanation not only of the 'pagan' catalogue of peoples, but also of the overarching structure of Baligant's empire, the organisation of North Africa, the corpus of the Twelve Anti-Pairs as well as the 'pagan' gods are given, and individual names such as Bramimunde and Jurfaret, toponyms such as Marbrise and Marbrose are explained. From Roland's Spanish conquests (v. 196-200), the course of the elapsed set anz toz pleins is reconstructed. Even the names of the weapons prove to be a small structured group, in that they are very discreetly adapted to their respective 'pagan' or Christian owner. On the Christian side, the small list of relics in Roland's sword is also carefully devised, not least in what is left out: a relic of the Lord; this is reserved for Charlemagne's Joiuse. The author explains for example, why from the archangel triad only Michael and Gabriel descend to the dying Roland, whereas 'the' angel Cherubin descends in Rafael's place. Munjoie requires extensive discussion, because here a (hitherto insufficiently recorded) toponym has been secondarily charged by the poet with traditional theological associations. The term Ter(e) major is attested for the first time in reality, namely in the late 11th century in Norman usage. For the core of France, the fourth cornerstone - along with Besançon, Wissant and Mont-Saint-Michel - is Xanten, and its centre is Aachen. The poet's artful equilibration of Charles's ten eschieles and their leaders is traced. The "Capetian barrier" emerges as a basic fact of epic geography. Approximatively, the last quarter of the study is devoted to the prehistory of the song, going backwards in time: still quite clearly visible is an Angevin Song of Roland from around 1050, in which Marsilĭe, Olivier, Roland, Ganelon, Turpin and Naimes already have roles similar to those in the preserved Song. Behind it, between about 970 and shortly after 1000, is the Girart de Vienne from the Middle Rhône, already recognised by Aebischer, with the newly invented Olivier contra Roland. Finally, in faint outlines, an oldest attainable, also Middle Rhône adaptation of the Roland material from shortly after 870 emerges. For the Chanson de Roland, Gaston Paris and Joseph Bédier were thus each right on the main point that was close to their hearts: the surviving song has both the thoroughly sophisticated structure of great art that Bédier recognised in it, and the imposingly long prehistory that Paris conjectured.


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Roman de Guiron parte prima
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Year: 2020 Publisher: Florence SISMEL/Edizioni del Galluzzo

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Le cycle de Guiron le Courtois, composé sans doute à partir de 1230 et en plusieurs étapes, est le dernier grand roman arthurien en prose française à rester inédit. Guiron le Courtois consiste en effet en plusieurs œuvres caractérisée par une tradition textuelle complexe : le Meliadus, le Roman de Guiron et la Suite Guiron. Le Meliadus et le Guiron ont été conçus indépendamment l’un de l’autre ; en outre, dans leur état initial, ils n’ont sans doute jamais été achevés, ce qui explique la tradition textuelle assez éclatée et, en particulier, la multitude de « raccords » et de « suites » destinés à combler les interstices. Une édition critique de l’ensemble du cycle est actuellement en cours. Ceci est le premier volume du Roman de Guiron propre, qui en comportera trois. Le texte est précédé d’une introduction, comportant la description des manuscrits, une analyse de la tradition textuelle, une étude littéraire, un examen de la langue du manuscrit. Il est suivi de notes, d’un glossaire et d’un index des noms propres.


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Expletive and referential subject pronouns in medieval French
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ISBN: 3110373378 9783110373370 3110367475 3110394308 9783110367478 9783110394306 Year: 2014 Volume: 556 Publisher: Berlin De Gruyter

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Medieval French, usually analyzed as a null subject language, differs considerably from modern Romance null subject languages such as Spanish in the availability of non-expressed subject pronouns; specifically, it shows characteristics reminiscent of non-null, rather than null subject languages, such as the expression of expletive subject pronouns. The central goal of this book is to put forward an account of these differences. On the basis of the analysis of an extensive, newly established data corpus, the development of the expression of both expletive and referential subject pronouns until the 17th c. is determined. Following a thorough discussion of previous approaches, an alternative approach is presented which builds on the analysis of Medieval French as a non-null subject language. The non-expression of subject pronouns, licit in specific contexts in non-null subject languages, is shown to be restricted to configurations generally involving left-peripheral focalization. These configurations - and, concomitantly, non-expressed subject pronouns - are finally argued to be eventually lost for good in the wake of the initial observation by 17th c. writers of pertinent instructions campaigned for in highly influential works of language use.


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The Anglo-Norman language and its contexts
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ISBN: 1283155982 9786613155986 1846157951 1903153301 Year: 2010 Publisher: Woodbridge [England] : Rochester, N.Y. : York Medieval Press ; in association with Boydell & Brewer,

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Collection examining the Anglo-Norman language in a variety of texts and contexts, in military, legal, literary and other forms. The question of the development of Anglo-Norman (the variety of medieval French used in the British Isles), and the role it played in the life of the medieval English kingdom, is currently a major topic of scholarly debate. The essays in this volume examine it from a variety of different perspectives and contexts, though with a concentration on the theme of linguistic contact between Anglo-Norman and English, seeking to situate it more precisely in space and time than has hitherto been the case. Overall they show how Anglo-Norman retained a strong presence in the linguistic life of England until a strikingly late date, and how it constitutes a rich and highly valuable record of theFrench language in the middle ages. Contributors: Richard Ingham, Anthony Lodge, William Rothwell, David Trotter, Mark Chambers, Louise Sylvester, Anne Curry, Adrian Bell, Adam Chapman, Andy King, David Simpkin, Paul Brand, Jean-Pascal Pouzet, Laura Wright, Eric Haeberli.


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Dictionnaire du Moyen âge
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ISBN: 2130543391 9782130543398 Year: 2023 Publisher: Paris : Presses universitaires de France,


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Gesammelte Aufsätze zur altfranzösischen Epik
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ISBN: 311061569X 3110615673 9783110615692 9783110615838 3110615835 3110736500 Year: 2019 Publisher: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter

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Conceived as a companion volume to his Onomastics of the Song of Roland (2017), Beckmann's eighteen Collected Essays on Old French Epic Poetry presents a multi-faceted panorama about the origins of the ancient chansons de geste. It includes the chansons of Ogier, Roland, William (Guillaume), Saxon epic poetry, the Pilgrimage of Charlemagne and Berthe with the Big Feet, and Renaut de Montauban. Der Band ist vor allem gedacht als companion volume zu Gustav Adolf Beckmanns Onomastik des Rolandsliedes (2017). Wie dort bestimmen auch hier zwei zentrale Aspekte den Großteil des Bildes, doch hier gestreut über die altfranzösische Epik als Gattung: Fragen der Onomastik und solche der Historizität des Dargestellten. Auch hier greifen sie meist sogar ineinander: Personennamen wie Audegarius (+ Oscheri) ~ Oggero Spatacurta ~ Ogier, Malduit der Schatzmeister, (Ricardus) Baligan, Nikephóros ~ Hugue li Forz, Witburg ~ Wigburg ~ Guibourc, Alpais, A(da)lgis (→ Malgis/Amalgis), Toponyme wie Belin, Lucena ~ Luiserne, Worms ~ Garmaise, Dortmund ~ Tremoigne, Esch-sur-Sûre ~ Ascane, Avroy ~ Auridon ~ Oridon ~ Dordone, Pierrepont sowie das doppelte Hydronym Rura ~ Rune und Erunia ~ Rune bringen jeweils ein Stück ihrer aufschlussreichen Geschichte mit sich. Die Texte sind in ihrer ursprünglichen Erscheinungsform belassen, doch sämtlich aus der Forschungsperspektive des Jahres 2018 durchgesehen und, wo nötig, mit einem Postskriptum versehen. So entsteht ein facettenreiches Panorama zur Entstehung der älteren Chansons de geste - von der Ogier-, Rolands-, Wilhelms- und Sachsenepik über Pèlerinage de Charlemagne und Berthe au(x) grand(s) Pied(s) bis zu Renaut de Montauban.


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Representing the dead : epitaph fictions in late-medieval France
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ISBN: 1782048421 1843844362 Year: 2016 Publisher: Suffolk, England : D.S. Brewer,

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Who am I when I am dead? Several late-medieval French writers used literary representation of the dead as a springboard for exploring the nature of human being. Death is a critical moment for identity definition: one is remembered, forgotten or, worse, misremembered. Works in prose and verse by authors from Alain Chartier to Jean Bouchet record characters' deaths, but what distinguishes them as epitaph fictions is not their commemoration of the deceased, so much as their interrogation of how, by whom, and to what purpose posthumous identity is constituted. Far from rigidly memorialising the dead, they exhibit a productive messiness in the processes by which identity is composed in the moment of its decomposition as a complex interplay between body, voice and text. The cemeteries, hospitals, temples and testaments of fifteenth- and early-sixteenth-century literature, from the "Belle Dame sans mercy" querelle to Le Jugement poetic de l'honneur femenin, present a wealth of ambulant corpses, disembodied voices, animated effigies, martyrs for love and material echoes of the past which invite readers to approach epitaphic identity as a challenging question: here lies who, exactly? In its broadest context, this study casts fresh light on ideas of selfhood in medieval culture as well as on contemporary conceptions of the capacities and purposes of literary representationitself. Helen Swift is Associate Professor of Medieval French at St Hilda's College, Oxford.


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Vernacular literary theory from the French of Medieval England : texts and translations, c.1120-c.1450
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ISBN: 1782048715 184384429X Year: 2016 Publisher: Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer,

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From the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries, French was one of England's main languages of literature, record, diplomacy and commerce and also its only supra-national vernacular. As is now recognised, the large corpus of England's French texts and records is indispensable to understanding England's literary and cultural history, the multilingualism of early England, and European medieval French-language culture in general.
This is the first collection of texts and facing translations from England's medieval French. Through its selection of prologues and other excerpts from works composed or circulating in England, the volume presents a body of vernacular literary theory, in which some fifty-five highly various texts, from a range of genres, discuss their own origins, circumstances, strategies, source materials, purposes and audiences. Each entry, newly edited from a single manuscript, is accompanied by a headnote, annotation, and narrative bibliography, while a general introduction and section introductions provide further context and information. Also included are essays on French in England and on the prosody and prose of insular French; Middle English versions of some of the edited French texts; and a glossary of literary terms.
By giving access to a literate culture hitherto available primarily only to Anglo-Norman specialists, this book opens up new possibilities for taking English francophony into account in research and teaching.

Jocelyn Wogan-Browne is Thomas F.X. and Theresa Mullarkey Chair in Literature, Fordham University, New York, and formerly Professor of Medieval Literature, University of York; Thelma Fenster is Professor Emerita of French and Medieval Studies, Fordham University; Delbert Russell is Distinguished Professor Emeritusof French, University of Waterloo.


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The refrain and the rise of the vernacular in medieval French music and poetry
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ISBN: 1782041060 1843843498 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge : D.S. Brewer,

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The relationship between song quotation and the elevation of French as a literary language that could challenge the cultural authority of Latin is the focus of this book. It approaches this phenomenon through a close examination of the refrain, a short phrase of music and text quoted intertextually across thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century musical and poetic genres. The author draws on a wide range of case studies, from motets, trouvère song, plays, romance, vernacular translations, and proverb collections, to show that medieval composers quoted refrains as vernacular auctoritates; she argues that their appropriation of scholastic, Latinate writing techniques worked to authorize Old French music and poetry as media suitable for the transmission of knowledge. Beginning with an exploration of the quasi-scholastic usage of refrains in anonymous and less familiar clerical contexts, the book goes on to articulate a new framework for understanding the emergence of the first two named authors of vernacular polyphonic music, the cleric-trouvères Adam de la Halle and Guillaume de Machaut. It shows how, by blending their craft with the writing practices of the universities, composers could use refrain quotation to assert their status as authors with a new self-consciousness, and to position works in the vernacular as worthy of study and interpretation. Jennifer Saltzstein is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Oklahoma.

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