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Auteur de la première histoire universelle en prose française, de nombreuses vies de saints et d’un roman du Graal, Wauchier de Denain s’impose comme un auteur majeur de la vie littéraire du XIIIe s……続きを見る

Ce volume regroupe les textes issus du colloque organisé par l’équipe de recherche Interdisciplinaire en langues romanes (ERILAR) de l’université Rennes 2 en octobre 2003. Son titre précise l’objet ……続きを見る

La période 1450-1550 est l’heure de gloire du théâtre médiéval. C’est dans sa fonction polémique que l’on arrive à retrouver son ancrage local ou régional, que l’on arrive à mieux cerner le côté évé……続きを見る

Après l’ouvrage consacré aux Miroirs et jeux de miroirs paru en 2003, voici un livre tourné vers un autre objet du quotidien, intéressant tant pour l’histoire des mentalités que pour sa symbolique :……続きを見る

Le lignage et les « amis charnels » qui le constituent repose au Moyen Âge sur une communauté de sang, dont le rôle est certainement antérieur à la mise en place des liens féodaux. En littérature, l……続きを見る

Les légendes de la Table Ronde font partie intégrante de l’héritage culturel occidental et revêtent une importance toute particulière en Grande-Bretagne où elles sont nées. Aux sources médiévales de……続きを見る

Des historiens de l’art et des littéraires s’associent pour aborder le miroir comme objet, comme métaphore et comme procédé de structuration des textes et des images au Moyen Âge. Ils tentent de voi……続きを見る

La littérature médiévale inspire et informe l’œuvre du poète et romancier oulipien Jacques Roubaud depuis les années 1970. Ses essais La fleur inverse et Graal Fiction, ou encore Graal Théâtre, ambi……続きを見る

Affective meditation on the Passion was one of the most popular literary genres of the high and later Middle Ages. Proliferating in a rich variety of forms, these lyrical, impassioned, script-like t……続きを見る

During and after the Hundred Years War, English rulers struggled with a host of dynastic difficulties, including problems of royal succession, volatile relations with their French cousins, and the c……続きを見る

What is the body when it performs music? And what, conversely, is music as it reverberates through or pours out of a performing body? Tekla Bude starts from a simple premiseーthat music requires a b……続きを見る

What does it mean to speak for nature? Contemporary environmental critics warn that giving a voice to nonhuman nature reduces it to a mere echo of our own needs and desires; they caution that it is ……続きを見る

Despite the recent outpouring of scholarship on Piers Plowman, Lawrence Warner contends, we know much less about the poem's production, transmission, and readership than one might think. When did Wi……続きを見る

Texts by, for, and about preachers from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries reveal an intense interest in the preacher's human nature and its intersection with his "angelic" role. Far from simpl……続きを見る

Why would the sprawling thirteenth-century French prose Lancelot-Grail Cycle have been attributed to Walter Map, a twelfth-century writer from the Anglo-Welsh borderlands known for his stinging sati……続きを見る

Britain of the fifteenth century was rife with social change, religious dissent, and political upheaval. Amid this ferment lived John CapgraveーAustin friar, doctor of theology, leading figure in Ea……続きを見る

To seek sanctuary from persecution by entering a sacred space is an act of desperation, but also a symbolic endeavor: fugitives invoke divine presence to reach a precarious safe haven that imbues th……続きを見る

Adam Usk, a Welsh lawyer in England and Rome during the first years of the fifteenth century, lived a peculiar life. He was, by turns, a professor, a royal advisor, a traitor, a schismatic, and a sp……続きを見る

What would English literary history look like if the unit of measure were not the political reign but the poetic tradition? The earliest poems in English were written in alliterative verse, the mete……続きを見る

Alliterative Revivals is the first full-length study of the sophisticated historical consciousness of late medieval alliterative romance. Drawing from historicism, feminism, performance studies, and……続きを見る

The number of surviving medieval secular poems attributed to named female authors is small, some of the best known being those of the trobairitz the female troubadours of southern France. However, t……続きを見る

The Knight, the Cross, and the Song offers a new perspective on the driving forces of crusading in the period 1100-1400. Although religious devotion has long been identified as the primary motivatio……続きを見る

The scribes of early medieval England wrote out their vernacular poems using a format that looks primitive to our eyes because it lacks the familiar visual cues of verse lineation, marks of punctuat……続きを見る

What shall we make of medieval English lyrics? They have no fixed line or meter, no consistent point of view, and their content may seem misaligned with the other texts in manuscripts in which they ……続きを見る

Medieval courtiers defined themselves in ceremonies and rituals. Tournaments, Maying, interludes, charivaris, and masking invited the English and French nobility to assert their identities in gestur……続きを見る

According to legend, the Virgin appeared one Christmas Eve to an artless young man standing in one of Constantinople's most famous Marian shrines. She offered him a scroll of papyrus with the injunc……続きを見る

Traces of the living animal run across the entire corpus of medieval writing and reveal how pervasively animals mattered in medieval thought and practice. In fascinating scenes of cross-species enco……続きを見る

The game of chess reached western Europe by the year 1000, and within several generations it had become one of the most popular pastimes ever. Both men and women, and even priests played the game de……続きを見る

Between 1532 and 1602, the works of Geoffrey Chaucer were published in no less than six folio editions. These were, in fact, the largest books of poetry produced in sixteenth-century England, and th……続きを見る

In the last quarter of the fourteenth century, the complete Old and New Testaments were translated from Latin into English, first very literally, and then revised into a more fluent, less Latinate s……続きを見る