Philippe De Vigneulles And The Art Of Prose Translation

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Philippe de Vigneulles and the Art of Prose Translation

Author : Catherine M. Jones
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1843841584

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Philippe de Vigneulles and the Art of Prose Translation by Catherine M. Jones Pdf

The cultural agenda of Philippe de Vigneulles, translator of the Lorraine epic cycle into Middle French prose. Over fifty chansons de geste were reworked into prose between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries for patrons and audiences who demanded updated, de-rhymed versions of heroic songs. While most prose translations were commissioned by noble patrons, Philippe de Vigneulles (1471-1527), a cloth merchant of Metz, operated outside the system of patronage on self-imposed projects with a pronounced civic bias. His translation of the monumental Lorraine epic cycle into Middle French prose afforded him an opportunity to reconfigure the city's legendary past and validate the concerns of a prosperous merchant class. The craft of mise en prose is examined in the context of the author's larger cultural agenda as he weaves the epic legend into his civic, personal and aesthetic preoccupations. This perspective illuminates a previously neglected sphere of medieval literary production, revealing fundamental assumptions about the epic tradition and the power of prose in urban culture. CATHERINE M. JONES is Associate Professor of French and Provençal at the University of Georgia.

Si sai encor moult bon estoire, chancon moult bone et anciene

Author : Sophie Marnette,John F. Levy,Leslie Zarker Morgan
Publisher : Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780907570301

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Si sai encor moult bon estoire, chancon moult bone et anciene by Sophie Marnette,John F. Levy,Leslie Zarker Morgan Pdf

Professor Joseph J. Duggan, emeritus professor at the University of California (Berkeley) is an eminent scholar of Medieval Studies who has written seminal works on Romance Literatures (and Old French epics in particular). His work ranges from editions of medieval classics such as the Chanson de Roland to articles about troubadours’ lyrics and a monograph on Chrétien de Troyes. Here, fifteen contributions from his former students and colleagues offer literary, narratological, philological, and contextual studies of the texts he has taught and researched over his long and prestigious career.

Handbook of Medieval Studies

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 2822 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110215588

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Handbook of Medieval Studies by Albrecht Classen Pdf

This interdisciplinary handbook provides extensive information about research in medieval studies and its most important results over the last decades. The handbook is a reference work which enables the readers to quickly and purposely gain insight into the important research discussions and to inform themselves about the current status of research in the field. The handbook consists of four parts. The first, large section offers articles on all of the main disciplines and discussions of the field. The second section presents articles on the key concepts of modern medieval studies and the debates therein. The third section is a lexicon of the most important text genres of the Middle Ages. The fourth section provides an international bio-bibliographical lexicon of the most prominent medievalists in all disciplines. A comprehensive bibliography rounds off the compendium. The result is a reference work which exhaustively documents the current status of research in medieval studies and brings the disciplines and experts of the field together.

«Par deviers Rome m’en revenrai errant»

Author : Autori Vari
Publisher : Viella Libreria Editrice
Page : 651 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-02T00:00:00+02:00
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9788867289059

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«Par deviers Rome m’en revenrai errant» by Autori Vari Pdf

Il volume raccoglie gli atti del XXème Congrès International de la Société Rencesvals pour l’étude des épopées romanes (Sapienza - Università di Roma, 20-24 luglio 2015) e presenta lo stato dell’arte e le ricerche in corso sull’epica romanza medievale propriamente detta, sulla sua posterità nell’età moderna e sulla produzione non romanza a essa correlata, offrendo un panorama ricco ‒ se non completo ‒ degli attuali orientamenti scientifici e dei risultati raggiunti. Per il congresso di Roma ‒ cui hanno preso parte studiosi provenienti dall’Europa, dal Nord e dal Sud America e dall’Africa ‒ sono stati proposti i seguenti temi: I. Rome et l’Italie dans les chansons de geste; II. Phénomènes de cyclisation: grandes et petites gestes; III. Le XVe siècle: proses et renouvellements; IV. L’histoire des recherches sur la matière de France; a questi si aggiungono gli interventi raccolti nella sezione Varia.

Translation and Temporality in Benoît de Sainte-Maure's Roman de Troie

Author : Maud Burnett McInerney
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781843846154

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Translation and Temporality in Benoît de Sainte-Maure's Roman de Troie by Maud Burnett McInerney Pdf

An exciting new approach to one of the most important texts of medieval Europe. The story of the Trojan War has been told and retold across the ages, from Homer's Iliad and Virgil's Aeneid to recent film and television adaptations. The peoples of medieval Europe were especially enthralled with the tale of the siege of the great city by the Greeks, and by the fourteenth century virtually every royal house in Europe traced its ancestry to some long-ago Trojan warrior. The medieval West, however, had no access to Homer, and though Virgil was certainly read, the most influential version of the Troy story for centuries was that recounted in the Roman de Troie, by Benoît de Sainte Maure. This massive poem in Old French claimed to be a translation of two eyewitness accounts of the War, both actually late antique forgeries, but it is in reality a largely original tapestry of chivalric exploits, elaborate descriptions and marvellous creatures such as centaurs and Amazons. The love story of Troilus and Briseida was invented in its pages, later inspiring Boccaccio, Chaucer and Shakespeare. The huge popularity of the Roman de Troie allowed medieval dynasties to create new kinds of political authority by extending their pedigrees back into days of legend, and was an essential element in the inauguration of a new genre, romance. This book uses approaches from theories of translation and temporality to develop its analysis of the Roman de Troie and its context. It reads the text against Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain to argue that Benoît is a participant in the Anglo-Norman invention of a new kind of history. It develops readings grounded in both gender studies and queer theory to demonstrate the ways in which the Roman de Troie participates in the invention of romance time, even as it uses its queer characters to cast doubt upon the optimistic genealogical fantasies of romance. Finally, it argues that the great series of ekphrastic passages so characteristic of the Roman de Troie operate as lieux de mémoire, epitomizing the potential of poetry to stop time, at least in the moment. The author also provides an overview of the complex manuscript tradition of the Roman de Troie in support of the contention that the text deserves to be central to any study of medieval literature.

Epic Arts in Renaissance France

Author : Phillip John Usher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780199687848

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Epic Arts in Renaissance France by Phillip John Usher Pdf

Studies the relationship between epic literature and other art forms (painting, sculpture, architecture) in the French Renaissance, exploring the paradox that the heroes and themes in the art of the period are widely celebrated while the literary epics are largely unread.

Knowing Poetry

Author : Adrian Armstrong,Sarah Kay
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0801461065

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Knowing Poetry by Adrian Armstrong,Sarah Kay Pdf

In the later Middle Ages, many writers claimed that prose is superior to verse as a vehicle of knowledge because it presents the truth in an unvarnished form, without the distortions of meter and rhyme. Beginning in the thirteenth century, works of verse narrative from the early Middle Ages were recast in prose, as if prose had become the literary norm. Instead of dying out, however, verse took on new vitality. In France verse texts were produced, in both French and Occitan, with the explicit intention of transmitting encyclopedic, political, philosophical, moral, historical, and other forms of knowledge. In Knowing Poetry, Adrian Armstrong and Sarah Kay explore why and how verse continued to be used to transmit and shape knowledge in France. They cover the period between Jean de Meun’s Roman de la rose (c. 1270) and the major work of Jean Bouchet, the last of the grands rhétoriqueurs (c. 1530). The authors find that the advent of prose led to a new relationship between poetry and knowledge in which poetry serves as a medium for serious reflection and self-reflection on subjectivity, embodiment, and time. They propose that three major works—the Roman de la rose, the Ovide moralisé, and Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy—form a single influential matrix linking poetry and intellectual inquiry, metaphysical insights, and eroticized knowledge. The trio of thought-world-contingency, poetically represented by Philosophy, Nature, and Fortune, grounds poetic exploration of reality, poetry, and community.

The New Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance

Author : Roberta L. Krueger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108807678

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The New Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance by Roberta L. Krueger Pdf

This new Companion provides a broad and perceptive overview of the most important vernacular literary genre of the Middle Ages. Freshly commissioned, original chapters from seventeen leading scholars introduce students and general readers to the form's poetics, narrative voice and manuscript contexts, as well as its relationship to the Mediterranean world, race, gender and the emotions, among many other topics. Providing fresh perspectives on the first pan-European literary movement, essays range across a broad geographical area, including England, France, Italy, Germany and the Iberian Peninsula, as well as a varied linguistic spectrum, including Arabic, Hebrew and Yiddish. Exploring the celebration of chivalric ideals and courtly refinements, the volume excavates the tensions and traumas lying beneath decorous surface appearances. An introduction, bibliography of texts and translations as well as chapter-by-chapter reading lists complete this essential guide.

Rebel Barons

Author : Luke Sunderland
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780191092725

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Rebel Barons by Luke Sunderland Pdf

Ambivalence towards kings, and other sovereign powers, is deep-seated in medieval culture: sovereigns might provide justice, but were always potential tyrants, who usurped power and 'stole' through taxation. Rebel Barons writes the history of this ambivalence, which was especially acute in England, France, and Italy in the twelfth to fifteenth centuries, when the modern ideology of sovereignty, arguing for monopolies on justice and the legitimate use of violence, was developed. Sovereign powers asserted themselves militarily and economically provoking complex phenomena of resistance by aristocrats. This volume argues that the chansons de geste, the key genre for disseminating models of violent noble opposition to sovereigns, offer a powerful way of understanding acts of resistance. Traditionally seen as France's epic literary monuments - the Chanson de Roland is often presented as foundational of French literature - chansons de geste in fact come from areas antagonistic to France, such as Burgundy, England, Flanders, Occitania, and Italy, where they were reworked repeatedly from the twelfth century to the fifteenth and recast into prose and chronicle forms. Rebel baron narratives were the principal vehicle for aristocratic concerns about tyranny, for models of violent opposition to sovereigns and for fantasies of escape from the Carolingian world via crusade and Oriental adventures. Rebel Barons reads this corpus across its full range of historical and geographical relevance, and through changes in form, as well as placing it in dialogue with medieval political theory, to bring out the contributions of literary texts to political debates. Revealing the widespread and long-lived importance of these anti-royalist works supporting regional aristocratic rights to feud and revolt, Rebel Barons reshapes our knowledge of reactions to changing political realities at a crux period in European history.

Anne de Graville and Women's Literary Networks in Early Modern France

Author : Elizabeth L'Estrange
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781843846864

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Anne de Graville and Women's Literary Networks in Early Modern France by Elizabeth L'Estrange Pdf

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.

The Medieval French Ovide Moralisé

Author : K. Sarah-Jane Murray,Matthieu Boyd
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 1180 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843846536

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The Medieval French Ovide Moralisé by K. Sarah-Jane Murray,Matthieu Boyd Pdf

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.

The Cambridge History of French Literature

Author : William Burgwinkle,Nicholas Hammond,Emma Wilson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 823 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521897860

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The Cambridge History of French Literature by William Burgwinkle,Nicholas Hammond,Emma Wilson Pdf

The most comprehensive history of literature written in French ever produced in English.

Marie de France

Author : Sharon Kinoshita,Peggy McCracken
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843843016

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Marie de France by Sharon Kinoshita,Peggy McCracken Pdf

"Marie de France is the author of some of the most important and influential works of the French Middle Ages: the Lais, her best-known work, the Ysopë (a translation from the Aesopic tradition), and the Espurgatoire seint Patriz (St Patrick's Purgatory). Taking Marie less as a biographical subject than as author of these three texts, this Companion rethinks standard questions of interpretation through a variety of perspectives that highlight both the unity of Marie's oeuvre and the distinctiveness of the individual works attributed to her name."--Page 4 of cover.

Partonopeus de Blois

Author : Penny Eley
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843842743

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Partonopeus de Blois by Penny Eley Pdf

First book-length treatment of a fascinating medieval French romance, underlining its influence in the genre. Partonopeus de Blois is one of the most important works of twelfth-century French fiction; it shaped the development of romance as a genre, gave rise to adaptations in several other medieval languages and even an opera (Massanet's Esclarmonde). However, partly because of its complicated transmission history, and partly due to the fact that it has been overshadowed by the works of Chrétien de Troyes, it has been unjustly neglected. This firstfull-length study of the romance brings together literary, historical and manuscript studies to explore its making as it evolved through seven medieval "editions", the earliest of which probably predated most of Chrétien's romances. The book's thematic analyses show how the Partonopeus poet applied established techniques of rewriting to a wide range of classical, vernacular and Celtic sources, combining this literary fusion with political subtexts to create a new and influential model of romance composition. Detailed studies of the Continuation reveal more ambitious experimentation by the original author, as well as the activities of a series of "editors" who continued to modify the text for over a century. A final discussion of patronage proposes a new reading of the poem's distinct narratorial interventions on women and love, and suggests a link between Partonopeus and a disturbing episode in the history of Blois. Penny Eley is Professor of Medieval French at the University of Sheffield.

Thinking Through Chrétien de Troyes

Author : Zrinka Stahuljak
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781843842545

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Thinking Through Chrétien de Troyes by Zrinka Stahuljak Pdf

This co-written book challenges assumptions about Chrétien as the author of a canon of works. In a series of exchanges, its five authors reassess the relationship between lyric and romance, between individuality and social conditions, and between psychology and medieval philosophy.