Eglal Doss-Quinby & E. Jane Burns 
Cultural Performances in Medieval France 
Essays in Honor of Nancy Freeman Regalado

A celebration of the groundbreaking achievements of Nancy Freeman Regalado in the field of medieval French literature.


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 byher 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 Frenchat 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.

Daftar Isi

Introduction

La poésie comme récit – Michel Zink

Colin Muset and Performance – Samuel N. Rosenberg

Subtilitas and
Delectatio: Ne m’a pas oublié – Edward H. Roesner

‘Flables couvertes’: Poetry and Performance in the Fifteenth Century – Jane H. M. Taylor

Intimate Performance: An Ivory Writing Tablet Cover at The Cloisters – Mark Cruse

A Cultural Performance in Silk: Sebelinne’s
aumousniere in the
Dit de l’Empereur Constant – E. Jane Burns

Acting Like a Man: Performing Gender in
Tristan de Nanteuil – Kimberlee Campbell

Amorous Performances: The
Aventure de l’espee vermeille in
Perceforest – Sylvia Huot

Historicizing Performance: The Case of the
Jeu de Robin et Marion – Ardis Butterfield

The Protean Performer: Defining Minstrel Identity in Tristan Narratives – Marilyn Lawrence

Performing Vernacular Literature in Monastic Culture: The
lectio divina in Gautier de Coinci’s
Miracles de Nostre Dame – Kathryn A. Duys

Performative Reading: Experiencing through the Poet’s Body in Guillaume de Digulleville’s
Pèlerinage de Jhesucrist – Pamela Sheingorn

Performative Reading: Experiencing through the Poet’s Body in Guillaume de Digulleville’s
Pèlerinage de Jhesucrist – Robert L. A. Clark

The Anglo-Norman Office of the Cross in the Lichtenthal Psalter – Lucy Freeman Sandler

‘Laver de ses pechiés une pecheresse royale’: Psalm Collects in an Early Fourteenth-Century Devotional Book – Elizabeth A R Brown

Dramatic Troubles of
Ecclesia: Gendered Performances of the Divided Church – Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski

Preaching the Sins of the Ladies: Nicole Bozon’s ‘Char d’Orgueil’ – Laurie Postlewate

Making Names, Breaking Lives: Women and Injurious Language at the Court of Isabeau of Bavaria and Charles VI – Helen Solterer

Performing the Nation: The Play Performed at the Great Feast in Christine de Pizan’s Biography of Charles V – Lori J. Walters

Variegated Performance of
Aucassin et Nicolette – Evelyn Birge Vitz

Late Medieval Representations of Storytelling and Story-Performance – Kathleen A. Loysen

Paratextual Performances in the Early Parisian Book Trade: Antoine Vérard’s Edition of Boccaccio’s
Nobles et cleres dames [1493] – Cynthia J. Brown

‘Resuscitating’ Medieval Literature in New York and Paris:
La femme que Nostre-Dame garda d’estre arse at Yvette Guilbert’s School of Theatre, 1919-241919-24 –

The Pitfalls and Promise of Classroom Performance – Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner

‘Dunc chante haut et cler’: remarques sur l’interprétation de la musique médiévale – Anne Azéma

Tentang Penulis

JANE H.M. TAYLOR is Emeritus Professor of French at Durham University.