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Cultural Performances in Medieval France
Essays in Honor of Nancy Freeman Regalado
Edited by Eglal Doss-Quinby
Edited by Roberta L. Krueger
Edited by E. Jane Burns


This collection of essays pays tribute to Nancy Freeman Regalado, a ground-breaking scholar in the field of medieval French literature whose research has always pushed beyond disciplinary boundaries. The articles in the volume reflect the depth and diversity of her scholarship, as well as her collaborations with literary critics, philologists, historians, art historians, musicologists, and vocalists - in France, England, and the United States. Inspired by her most recent work, these twenty-four essays are tied together by a single question, rich in ramifications: how does performance shape our understanding of medieval and pre-modern literature and culture, whether the nature of that performance is visual, linguistic, theatrical, musical, religious, didactic, socio-political, or editorial? The studies presented here invite us to look afresh at the interrelationship of audience, author, text, and artifact, to imagine new ways of conceptualizing the creation, transmission, and reception of medieval literature, music, and art.

EGLAL DOSS-QUINBY is Professor of French at Smith College.
ROBERTA L. KRUEGER is Professor of French at Hamilton College.
E. JANE BURNS is Professor of Women's Studies and Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Contributors: ANNE AZÉMA, RENATE BLUMENFELD-KOSINSKI, CYNTHIA J. BROWN, ELIZABETH A. R. BROWN, MATILDA TOMARYN BRUCKNER, E. JANE BURNS, ARDIS BUTTERFIELD, KIMBERLEE CAMPBELL, ROBERT L. A. CLARK, MARK CRUSE, KATHRYN A. DUYS, ELIZABETH EMERY, SYLVIA HUOT, MARILYN LAWRENCE, KATHLEEN A. LOYSEN, LAURIE POSTLEWATE, EDWARD H. ROESNER, SAMUEL N. ROSENBERG, LUCY FREEMAN SANDLER, PAMELA SHEINGORN, HELEN SOLTERER, JANE H. M. TAYLOR, EVELYN BIRGE VITZ, LORI J. WALTERS, AND MICHEL ZINK.

 

DETAILS

20 b/w illustrations
344 pages
Size: 23.4 x 15.6 cm
13 digit ISBN: 9781843841128
Binding: Hardback
First published: 15/Mar/2007
Price: 115.00 USD / 60.00 GBP
Imprint: D. S. Brewer
Series: Gallica
Subject: French Studies

BIC class: CTCF1

STATUS: Available
Details updated on 01/12/2008

Contents
   Introduction
1   La poésie comme récit
Michel Zink
2   Colin Muset and Performance
Samuel N. Rosenberg
3   Subtilitas and Delectatio: Ne m'a pas oublié
Edward H. Roesner
4   "Flables couvertes": Poetry and Performance in the Fifteenth Century
Jane H. M. Taylor
5   Intimate Performance: An Ivory Writing Tablet Cover at The Cloisters
Mark Cruse
6   A Cultural Performance in Silk: Sebelinne's aumousniere in the Dit de l'Empereur Constant
E. Jane Burns
7   Acting Like a Man: Performing Gender in Tristan de Nanteuil
Kimberlee Campbell
8   Amorous Performances: The Aventure de l'espee vermeille in Perceforest
Sylvia Huot
9   Historicizing Performance: The Case of the Jeu de Robin et Marion
Ardis Butterfield
10   The Protean Performer: Defining Minstrel Identity in Tristan Narratives
Marilyn Lawrence
11   Performing Vernacular Literature in Monastic Culture: The lectio divina in Gautier de Coinci's Miracles de Nostre Dame
Kathryn A. Duys
12   Performative Reading: Experiencing through the Poet's Body in Guillaume de Digulleville's Pèlerinage de Jhesucrist
Pamela Sheingorn and Robert L. A. Clark
13   The Anglo-Norman Office of the Cross in the Lichtenthal Psalter
Lucy Freeman Sandler
14   "Laver de ses pechiés une pecheresse royale": Psalm Collects in an Early Fourteenth-Century Devotional Book
Elizabeth A R Brown
15   Dramatic Troubles of Ecclesia: Gendered Performances of the Divided Church
Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski
16   Preaching the Sins of the Ladies: Nicole Bozon's "Char d'Orgueil"
Laurie Postlewate
17   Making Names, Breaking Lives: Women and Injurious Language at the Court of Isabeau of Bavaria and Charles VI
Helen Solterer
18   Performing the Nation: The Play Performed at the Great Feast in Christine de Pizan's Biography of Charles V
Lori J. Walters
19   Variegated Performance of Aucassin et Nicolette
Evelyn Birge Vitz
20   Late Medieval Representations of Storytelling and Story-Performance
Kathleen A. Loysen
21   Paratextual Performances in the Early Parisian Book Trade: Antoine Vérard'sEdition of Boccaccio's Nobles et cleres dames [1493]
Cynthia J. Brown
22   "Resuscitating" Medieval Literature in New York and Paris: La femme que Nostre-Dame garda d'estre arse at Yvette Guilbert's School of Theatre, 1919-24
Elizabeth Emery
23   The Pitfalls and Promise of Classroom Performance
Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner
24   "Dunc chante haut et cler": remarques sur l'interprétation de la musique médiévale
Anne Azéma

Reviews
Well worth the attention of performers and scholars of Medieval music. EARLY MUSIC AMERICA



 

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