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Originally published in 1990, this book contains the full text and
translation of razos and troubadour songs. The coupling of the
razos and songs in this edition is based on the conviction that
though the lyrics should first be read on their own, it is highly
instructive to read the two together, as the razo authors intended.
This allows the reader to attempt to read as a thirteenth-century
contemporary might have.
Originally published in 1990, this book contains the full text and
translation of razos and troubadour songs. The coupling of the
razos and songs in this edition is based on the conviction that
though the lyrics should first be read on their own, it is highly
instructive to read the two together, as the razo authors intended.
This allows the reader to attempt to read as a thirteenth-century
contemporary might have.
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.
The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and
Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of
medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not
only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue in
literature, theology, and philosophy, in social, political,
jurisprudential, and intellectual history, the history of art, and
the history of science but also that combines these subjects
productively. It offers innovative studies on topics that may
include, but are not limited to, manuscript and book history;
languages and literatures of the global Middle Ages; race and the
post-colonial; the digital humanities, media and performance;
music; medicine; the history of affect and the emotions; the
literature and practices of devotion; the theory and history of
gender and sexuality, ecocriticism and the environment; theories of
aesthetics; medievalism. The field of medieval francophone literary
culture outside France was for many years a minor and peripheral
sub-field of medieval French literary studies (or, in the case of
Anglo-Norman, of English studies). The past two decades, however,
have seen a major reassessment of the use of French in England, in
the Low Countries, in Italy, and in the eastern Mediterranean, and
this impacts significantly upon the history of literature in French
more generally. This book is the first to look at the question
overall, rather than just at one region. It also takes a more
sustained theorised approach than other studies, drawing
particularly on Derrida and on Actor-Network Theory. It discusses a
wide range of texts, some of which have hitherto been regarded as
marginal to French literary history, and makes the case for this
material being more central to the literary history of French than
was allowed in more traditional approaches focused narrowly on
'France'. Many of the arguments in Medieval French Literary Culture
Abroad are grounded in readings of texts in manuscript (rather than
in modern critical editions), and sustained attention is paid
throughout to manuscripts that were produced or travelled outside
the kingdom of France.
From Occitan poetry to Francophone writing produced in the
Caribbean and North Africa, from intellectual history to current
films, and from medieval manuscripts to bandes dessinees, this
History covers French literature from its beginnings to the present
day. With equal attention to all genres, historical periods and
registers, this is the most comprehensive guide to literature
written in French ever produced in English, and the first in
decades to offer such an array of topics and perspectives.
Contributors attend to issues of orality, history, peripheries,
visual culture, alterity, sexuality, religion, politics,
autobiography and testimony. The result is a collection that,
despite the wide variety of topics and perspectives, presents a
unified view of the richness of French-speaking cultures. This
History gives support to the idea that French writing will continue
to prosper in the twenty-first century as it adapts, adds to, and
refocuses the rich legacy of its past.
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