The question of what medieval "courtliness" was, both as a literary
influence and as a historical "reality", is debated in this volume.
The concept of courtliness forms the theme of this collection of
essays. Focused on works written in the Francophone world between
the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, they examine courtliness as
both an historical privilege and aliterary ideal, and as a concept
that operated on and was informed by complex social and economic
realities. Several essays reveal how courtliness is subject to
satire or is the subject of exhortation in works intended for
noblemen and women, not to mention ambitious bourgeois. Others,
more strictly literary in their focus, explore the witty,
thoughtful and innovative responses of writers engaged in the
conscious process of elevating the new vernacular culture through
the articulation of its complexities and contradictions. The volume
as a whole, uniting philosophical, theoretical, philological, and
cultural approaches, demonstrates that medieval "courtliness" is an
ideal that fascinates us to this day. It is thus a fitting tribute
to the scholarship of Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner, in its exploration
of the prrofound and wide-ranging ideas that define her
contribution to the field. DANIEL E O'SULLIVAN is Associate
Professor of French at the University of Mississippi; LAURIE
SHEPHARD is Associate Professor of Italian at Boston College in
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Contributors: Peter Haidu, Donald
Maddox, Michel-Andre Bossy, Kristin Burr, Joan Tasker Grimbert,
David Hult, Virgine Greene, Logan Whalen, Evelyn Birge Vitz,
Elizabeth W. Poe, Daniel E. O'Sullivan, William Schenck, Nadia
Margolis, Laine Doggett, E. Jane Burns, Nancy FreemanRegalado,
Laurie Shephard, Sarah White
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