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This volume celebrates Simon Gaunt’s scholarship by exploring the current boundaries and future directions of medieval French and Occitan literary criticism. The essays address questions of vital importance to these disciplines, including: What are the literary cultures and identities associated with supralocal vernacular languages? How do medieval manuscripts construct authorship, gendered identity, and voice in ways that range across genres and expressive registers? How do such codices mediate sensory experience and connect the textual, the visual, and the aural? How do French and Occitan texts negotiate the agencies of human and nonhuman bodies, and theorize emotions, sacrifice, and affect? Contributors are William Burgwinkle, Philippe Frieden, Jane Gilbert, Miranda Griffin, Alice Hazard, Thomas Hinton, Melek Karataş, Sarah Kay, Matthew Siôn Lampitt, Catherine Léglu, Peggy McCracken, Robert Mills, David Murray, Linda Paterson, Karen Pratt, Henry Ravenhall, and Simone Ventura.

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Author:   Emma Campbell ,  Luke Sunderland
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   28
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.871kg
ISBN:  

9789004735378

ISBN 10:   9004735372
Pages:   404
Publication Date:   05 March 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Introduction: Reimagining the Horizons of Medieval French and Occitan  Emma Campbell and Luke Sunderland 1 Language and Diversity in Walter de Bibbesworth’s Tretiz  Thomas Hinton 2 A Blue Banana? Picard, Occitan, and the Dimensions of European Literary History in Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, français 795  David Murray 3 Warping the Sense to Detect the Norm Linguistic (In)correctness and Competing Grammars in the Histoire ancienne jusqu’à César (Thirteenth–Fifteenth Centuries)  Simone Ventura 4 A French Rose? On the Transmission and Reception of the Roman de la Rose  Philippe Frieden 5 Viewing Text and Palinode through the Lens of the Manuscripts: Authorial Autocitation and Scribal Editing in Jean Le Fèvre’s Livre de Leesce  Karen Pratt 6 Silencing through Translation between Occitan, Latin and Catalan: the Revelations of Constance de Rabastens (fl. ca. 1384–1386)  Catherine Léglu 7 Enjoying Sound, Song, and Supralocal French in Aristotle’s India  Sarah Kay 8 Singing in (Different) Tongues: Sonic and Formal Warfare in Langtoft’s “Political Songs”  Jane Gilbert 9 Makers of Manuscripts as Readers of Manuscripts: the Montbaston Atelier and the Roman de la Rose  Melek Karataş 10 Before Time: Cosmology and Embodiment in Arsenal 3516  Miranda Griffin 11 Grief, Affect, and Embodiment in the Ovide moralisé  Peggy McCracken 12 Animal Figures in the Bibles moralisées: Medieval Manuscript Culture and Biopolitics  Robert Mills 13 Reading Touch in Two Manuscripts of the Roman de Troie (with Jean-Luc Nancy) Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, français 60 and Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Reginensis Latinus 1505  Henry Ravenhall 14 The Modes of Avalon  Matthew Siôn Lampitt 15 Tardif and Technics: Bernard Stiegler’s Technique in the Roman de Renart  Alice Hazard Afterword: We Have Never Been (Just) Medieval  William Burgwinkle Bibliography of Work by Simon Gaunt Bibliography Index

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Emma Campbell is Assistant Professor at George Washington University. Campbell has published on a broad range of medieval francophone texts, including major traditions such as saints' lives and bestiaries. Their most recent monograph is Reinventing Babel in Medieval French (OUP, 2023). Luke Sunderland is Professor of French at Durham University and a scholar of medieval French literature. He has published two monographs, Old French Narrative Cycles (D.S. Brewer, 2010) and Rebel Barons (Oxford, 2017).

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