Essays on aspects of medieval French literature, celebrating the
scholarship of Sarah Kay and her influence on the field. Sarah Kay
is one of the most influential medievalists of the past fifty
years, making vital, theoretically informed interventions on
material from early medieval chansons de geste, through troubadour
lyric, to late medieval philosophy and poetry, in French, Occitan,
Latin, and Italian. This volume in her honour is organised around
her six major monographs, published between 1990 and 2017. Its
essays engage in critical, constructive dialogue with different
aspects of Kay's work, and envisage how these might shape medieval
French as a discipline in coming years or decades. The subject
matters demonstrate the richness of the discipline: animal studies,
musicology, temporality, the material turn, medieval textuality,
feminism, queer theory, voice, medieval and modern intellectual
formations, psychoanalysis, philology, visual arts, transversal
criticism, the literary object, affect, rhetoric, body, the past,
modern responses to medieval forms and tropes, non-Christian texts
and thought-patterns, politics. Reiterating Kay's engagement with
medieval literature's complex philosophical debates and analytical
scrutiny of human knowledge and affect, they follow her in
emphasising how the pleasure of reading medieval literature depends
crucially on that literature's intellectual robustness. These
essays shed new light on a range of canonical and less well-known
medieval texts and artefacts, to present a fresh perspective on the
field of medieval studies.
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