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Libro de Alexandre: Fantastic Didacticism

the Alexandreis of Gautier de Chitillon, and secondarily, the Roman d'Alexandre, as well as Quintus Curtius, the Pseudo-Callisthenes, Historia de preliis, and other minor texts (Michael, Treatment of Classical Material chs. 2 and 6). The Spanish Alexandre has been described by Alan Deyermond: The many apparent digressions, especially the long narrative of the Trojan War which Alexander addresses to his army, have been thought irrelevant and structurally weak, but the Alexandre is unified in a way which is almost as frequent in medieval narrative as the simpler linear plot: it carefully interweaves themes and episodes. Moreover, the apparent digressions contribute to the major themes: the overthrow of human greatness, the fatal flaw in the hero's character, and the workings of treachery. We are shown Alexander's increasing success, which can never satisfy him; his exploration of the skies and the depths of the sea, his growing pride and cobdicia (not avarice but a general lack of restraint, a desire for forbidden things); and the tragedy of his death (66).

The Medieval Pastourelle (review)

REVIEWS WilliamD.Paden. TheMedievalPastoureUe. The GarlandLibrary of Medieval Literature. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1987. Vol. 1 : 368 pages, $50. Vol. II: 384 pages, $50. In his selection, translation, and edition of 210 medieval pastourelles,William D.Padenprovidesuswithan accessibleand comprehensiveoverviewofamedievalgenrewhoseimportanceis finally being recognized. Long considered a rustic and inconsequential "genre populaire," the pastourelle has recently enjoyed new critical attention as a key literary and musical form in medieval Europe. This new edition will doubtless further such revisionist study. The medieval pastourelle is a lyric poem in which a male narrator,usuallydepictedas aknight, tellsofhisattempttoseduce a shepherdess. The genre appeared with the poetry of the troubador Marcabru, in twelfth-century France, and flourished for two centuries in France, Germany, the Low Countries, England , Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Wales. Its practitioners were amongthebest-known poets ofEurope at thetime: ColinMuset, Gautier de Coinci, Guiraut Riquier, Giraut de Bornelh, Jean Bodel, Cerveri de Girona, Joan Airas de Santiago, Walther von derVogelweide, DanteandPetrarch. ThegenreflourishedinOld French, Occitan, English, German, Italian, Latin, Galican-Portuguese , Castilian, Gascon, and Welsh. Several bilingual texts, in French and Latin and in German and Latin, are extant. This edition includes 24 Occitan poems, all ofwhich have been previously published. Paden's"Introduction"defines hisobjectofstudy,the"classical " pastourelle, in terms of five functions: (1) the mode is pastoral,(2)thecastincludesamanandyoungwoman, (3)theplot comprisesaseduction, (4) therhetoricinvolvesbothnarrative and dialogue, (5)theviewpointismale. The editionalsoincludestexts from a penumbra of actualizations surrounding this definition: Paden presents poems that satisfy four of the five functions. Several Latin texts, nottraditionallyclassifiedaspastourelles, are excerpted, such as pieces from the anonymous Carmina Burana and a passage from the DeAmore of Andreas Capellanus. An excerpt from John ofGarland's Parisianapoetria gives the reader abroadpicture ofliterarytheorywithrespectto pastoralpoetryin the twelfth century. 154Reviews A liminal chapter, "Antecedents," begins with an ancient Chinese poem which can be likened to the medieval paradigm. Two kharjas (c. 1050-1150), one Arabic and one Hebrew, also bearwitnessto theeditor's effortto shed asmuchlightas possible onthe medieval tradition. Volume Ipresents threechronological groups oftexts: "Twelfth Century," ''EarlyThirteenth Century," and 'Thirteenth century (Early or Late)." The pastourelles in Volume II are divided into the "Late Thirteenth Century," "Fourteenth Century," and "Fifteenth Century." One hundred andthirtypagesofnotesfollow,indicatingthemanuscripts,author anddate,verseform,variants,andbibliographyforeachofthe210 texts. Ausefulcross-indextoseminaleditionsbyJeanAudiauand Karl Bartsch follows. (Curiously, there is no mention of JeanClaude Riviere's 1974 edition). Five additionalindices listmanuscripts ,propernames,languages,authors,andfirstlinesandtitles. A twenty-one page bibliography on the pastourelle catalogues editions as well as critical studies. Thesenewvolumesmaketwogreatcontributionstothefield ofOccitanstudies. TheymakeavailableinEnglishOccitanpoems thathave neverbefore been translated. Equally important , they bring together a vast range of medieval texts from different languages, never before grouped together, thus affording the reader greater purchase on the intertextuality of the pastourelle genre. The translations arereliable and sober, faithfulto the tone ofthe texts, which is to sayusually archaic but occasionally colloquial and sometimes obscene or brutal. The rendering of the Occitan "forcer" as "rape", forexample, in the anonymous poem 29, "Quant escavalcai fautrier" (P-C461, 200), reveals the editor 's departure from a longstanding tendency to disguise or misrepresentthe sexualtensions attheheart ofthisgenre. Errorsare fewandminor. Inpastourelle 32, "Anmai a dous tens nouvel"by Bestourné (Raynaud-Spanke 576), "Et s'aimme aincor" is translatedas "AndIloveyet, ratherthan"Andweloveeachotheryet". On the whole, this translation is a miracle of erudition and will provevaluable to general readers and scholars alike. Paden does not offer anydiscussion ofthe basis for his edition or his choice of manuscripts, no doubt because of the series in which it is published , which is aimed at the general reader seeking modern translations of medieval texts. The Medieval Pastourelle will enrich the work not only of those who study Occitan, but also of all medievalists who raise questions about the nature oflittératurepopularisante, long slighted. Reviews155 More important still, these translations open new doorsfor scholars examining broad ideological questions about the mentalité médiévale. In the pastourelle genre we glimpse the medieval construction of gender, the creation of a discourse of sexual violence, and the medieval representation ofa new discourse on social class. Kathryn Gravdal Columbia University Works Cited Audiau, Jean, éd.LaPastourelledanslapoésieoccitanedumoyen âge. Paris, 1923. Rprt. Geneva: Droz, 1973; Marseille: Laffitte, 1980. Bartsch, Karl, éd. Romances etpastourellesfrançaisesdesXIIeet XIIIesiècles: Altfranzosische Romanzen undPastourellen. Leipzig, 1870. Rprt. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1967. Rivi...

Mots, fluides et vertiges : les fêtes orales de la mystique chez Gautier de Coinci

C'est avec une tranquille condescendance que les historiens du siècle dernier commentèrent les Miracles de Notre-Dame. On reconnut à ce « monument » élevé au XIIIe siècle par « la piété enfantine du Moyen Age » quelque chose de touchant. Mais, décidément, la forme très élaborée sous laquelle se présentait le recueil gâchait la fraîcheur qu'on attendait d'un authentique primitif. Dans ces récits, alors qu'il eût fallu « être naïf et vrai », Gautier de Coinci s'était bizarrement plu à employer « un style très recherché, de continuels et fatigants jeux de mots, même des calembours ». Et ces extravagances étaient tout simplement « ridicules ».

The central rôle of the troubadourpersonaof Alfonso X in theCantigas de Santa Maria

The central rôle of the troubadour<i>persona</i>of Alfonso X in the<i>Cantigas de Santa Maria</i>

The Documentation for Notre-Dame de Soissons

Previous articleNext article No AccessThe Documentation for Notre-Dame de SoissonsCarl F. Barnes, Jr.Carl F. Barnes, Jr. Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Gesta Volume 15, Number 1/21976Essays in Honor of Sumner McKnight Crosby Sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2307/766752 Views: 2Total views on this site Citations: 3Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1976 International Center of Medieval ArtPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Anne L. Clark Guardians of the Sacred: The Nuns of Soissons and the Slipper of the Virgin Mary, Church History 76, no.44 (Feb 2020): 724–749.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009640700500031Donna Mayer-Martin Soissons and the Royal Abbey of Saint-Médard: Historical Contexts for the Life and Works of Gautier de Coinci, (Jan 2005): 147–167.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-03706-0_6 Sheila Bonde , Edward Boyden , and Clark Maines Centrality and Community: Liturgy and Gothic Chapter Room Design at the Augustinian Abbey of Saint-Jean-des-Vignes, Soissons, Gesta 29, no.22 (Oct 2015): 189–213.https://doi.org/10.2307/767034

The Latins of Argos and Nauplia: 1311–1394

During the fourteenth century the Latins' hold on those fragments of the great empire of Romania which they had acquired after the overthrow of the Byzantine emperor in 1204 became increasingly precarious. In the Morea, as the Peloponnese was then known, the foremost Frankish houses, the Villehardouin, the Courtenay, the de la Roche and others, were extinguished. The French magnates faced hostility not only from the Greeks and Turks, but also from the Catalans and the Italianate elements to whom their lands passed through conquest, marriage or princely favour. A turning point in this process was the slaughter of many male members of the old Frankish aristocracy by the Catalan companies and their Turkish allies in a great battle near Thebes in 1311, at which Gautier de Brienne, who had succeeded his kinsman Guy de la Roche as Duke of Athens and Neopatras in 1309, was killed. Gautier's duchies were occupied by the Catalans, who were acting independently of the Aragonese King of Sicily, though they subsequently rendered a vague formal allegiance to a line of Siculo-Aragonese dukes. The Catalans did not take Corinth, which lay on the isthmus separating the Duchy of Athens from the Morea, and the Brienne family retained effective possession of its lands beyond Corinth, around Argos and Nauplia, which continued to form part of the Principality of Achaea.

A Reading of Robert De Boron

In writing the chapter on “The Work of Robert de Boron and the Didot Perceval” for Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages, Pierre Le Gentil shows that many questions remain unanswered for readers of the Metrical Joseph. Beyond the statements which we understand as the poet's—that at the time when he told the story of the graal he was with his lord Gautier de Montbéliard in peace, that no one had yet told the story, and that he intends to continue with stories of Alain, Petrus, Moyses, and Bron—we have been guided in our reading largely by conjecture. From the fragment of the Merlin which follows the Metrical Joseph in MS. fr. 20047 of the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, we can see that the poet places the two works within the concept of the struggle between Christ and Satan for the soul of man. Several of his sources have been pointed out; but beyond a few conclusions from the text itself, a reader wonders at the strange combination of Christian tradition and Celtic legend which Robert de Boron has effected in these two works. Discussions have been complicated by manuscripts of works related in various ways to the poems of MS. fr. 20047, and by the proliferation of stories of the Grail following Robert de Boron's Christianization of Celtic stories which had been circulating for about a hundred years before his time.

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

REVIEWS OF BOOKS Get access LES CHANSONS A LA VIERGE DE GAUTIER DE COINCI. Edited by Jacques Chailley. (Paris, Heugel et Cie., 1959. Pp. 192.) JANET KNAPP JANET KNAPP Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Musical Quarterly, Volume XLVII, Issue 1, January 1961, Pages 106–111, https://doi.org/10.1093/mq/XLVII.1.106 Published: 01 January 1961

The Stella Maris of John of Garland. E. F. WilsonGloses marginales des 'Miracles' de Gautier de Coinci. Veikko Väänänen

Previous articleNext article No AccessReviewsThe Stella Maris of John of Garland. E. F. Wilson Gloses marginales des 'Miracles' de Gautier de Coinci. Veikko Väänänen Archer TaylorArcher Taylor Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Speculum Volume 22, Number 2Apr., 1947 The journal of the Medieval Academy of America Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2307/2854736 Views: 1Total views on this site Citations: 1Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1947 The Mediaeval Academy of AmericaPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article: George Sarton , and Frances Siegel Seventy-First Critical Bibliography of the History and Philosophy of Science and of the History of Civilization (To October 1947), Isis 39, no.1/21/2 (Oct 2015): 70–139.https://doi.org/10.1086/348945

Further Notes on Gautier de Coinci

IN SEEKING to show that Gautier de Coinci was born in Conchyles-Pots, a town in the vicinity of Roye, the late Louis Allen based an important part of his argumentation' upon the premise that the manuscript of the Chronicon Sancti Medardi Suessionensis gives Gautier's name as Galterus de Coussiaco and that the form Coinssiaco, which appears in two editions' of the Chronicon, is an alteration ascribable to the editors. In this he was mistaken, for the reading of the manuscript is clearly and indubitably Coinssiaco.3 It is evident that Allen had not seen the manuscript: he was led astray by the Abb6 Poquet, who in his edition of the Miracles4 cites from the Chronicon the passages concerning Gautier and calls particular attention to the alleged reading Coussiaco, which he suggests might be a mistake for Conssiaco or Coinssiaco. Poquet himself, however, had no more consulted the manuscript than had Allen; he was relying upon the text of the Chronicon published in D'Achery's Spicilegium. Had he used the 1723 edition of the Spicilegium, revised by Baluze, Martine, and De la Barre, he would have found the correct reading; in

Frankish Remains at Adalia

The city of Adalia on the Caramanian coast, still a very fine example of a mediaeval walled town, has been thrice attempted by western arms and was for twelve years garrisoned by the French kings of Cyprus.It was taken by Gautier de Montbeliard early in the reign of Hugues I. Lusignan (1205–18) but hurriedly abandoned. The warlike Pierre I. captured it in 1361 and it was held till 1373, when his successor, Pierre II. surrendered it. Lastly the ‘Crusaders’ of Mocenigo's expedition in 1472 stormed and sacked the seaward quarter but were unable to make good their footing. The surviving Frankish monuments must be attributed to the second Cypriote period.

Chaucer's Prioresses Tale and Its Analogues

It is now thirty years ago that three stories, more or less closely related to the Prioresses Tale, were printed in the Chaucer Society's Originals and Analogues. Since that time but little new light has been thrown on the source used by Chaucer for this Tale. The general opinion has been that Chaucer followed some version of the legend not now known, though Professor Skeat in his most recent discussion of the subject takes the view that the Prioresses Tale is the result of a combination, probably by Chaucer himself, of two miracles of Our Lady related by Gautier de Coincy: that of the boy killed by the Jew, and that of the wicked cleric in whose mouth after death a miraculous flower was found.