Department of French

Publications

The project will generate a number of publications, including:

Published:

• Adrian Armstrong, 'The Manuscript Reception of Jean Molinet's Trosne d'Honneur', Medium Aevum, 74/2 (2005), 311-28.
• Adrian Armstrong, 'Songe, vision, savoir: l'onirique et l'épistémique chez Molinet et Lemaire de Belges', Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie, 123 (2007), 50-68.
• Adrian Armstrong, 'Reception and Interference: Reading Jean Molinet's Rebus-Poems', Word and Image, 23 (2007), 335-46.
• Adrian Armstrong, 'Yearning and Learning: Spaces of Desire in Jean Lemaire de Belges's Concorde des deux langages (1511)', in The Erotics of Consolation: Desire and Distance in the Middle Ages, edited by Catherine Léglu and Stephen Milner (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
• Adrian Armstrong, 'The Shaping of Knowledge in an Anthology of Jean Molinet's Poetry: Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS 187:220', Revue d'histoire des textes n.s. 4 (2009), 215-75.
• Rebecca Dixon and Finn E. Sinclair (eds), with the participation of Adrian Armstrong, Sylvia Huot, and Sarah Kay, Poetry, Knowledge, and Community in Late Medieval France (Woodbridge: D.S. Brewer, 2008).
• Rebecca Dixon, 'Allégorie et construction de mythes chez Michault Taillevent: le Songe de la Thoison d'Or', Le Moyen français 64 (2009), 67-84
• Miranda Griffin,'Transforming Fortune: Reading and Chance in Christine de Pizan's Mutacion de Fortune and Chemin de long estude', Modern Language Review, 104 (2009), 55-70
• Sylvia Huot, 'Refashioning Boethius: Poetry and Prose in Chartier's Livre de l'Espérance', Medium Aevum (2007) 268-84.
• Sylvia Huot, 'Reading the Lies of Poets: The Literal and the Allegorical in Machaut's Fonteinne amoureuse', Philological Quarterly 85 (2006), 25-48.
• Sarah Kay, The Place of Thought: The Complexity of One in French Didactic Poetry (Middle Ages Series, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007)
• Sarah Kay, 'Grafting the Knowledge Community: The Purposes of Verse in the Breviari d'amor of Matfre Ermengaud', Neophilologus, 91 (2007).

Companion piece to the above article is:

• Francesca M Nicholson, 'Branches of Knowledge: The Purposes of Citation in the Breviari d'amor of Matfre Ermengaud', Neophilologus, 21 (2007). 375-85.
• Sarah Kay, 'Touching Singularity. Melancholy and Consolation in the Medieval French dit', in The Erotics of Consolation: Desire and Distance in the Middle Ages, edited by Catherine Léglu and Stephen Milner (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
• Sarah Kay, 'How long is a quotation? Quotations from the troubadours in the text and manuscripts of the Breviari d'amor', Romania, 127 (2009), 140-68.
• Sarah Kay, 'La poésie, la vérité, et le sujet supposé savoir. Citations des troubadours et poétique européenne', in Pourquoi des théories?, ed. Denis Guénoun and Nicolas Doutey (Paris: Les Solitaires Intempestifs, 2009), pp. 87-111.

In press/accepted for publication:

• Adrian Armstrong, 'Boire chez (et avec) Molinet', in Jean Molinet et son temps, ed. Jean Devaux, Estelle Doudet, and Elodie Lecuppre-Desjardins (Turnhout: Brepols)
• Adrian Armstrong, 'Printing and Metrical Naturalisation: Jean Molinet's Neuf Preux de Gourmandise', forthcoming in Essays in Late Medieval French Literature: The Legacy of Jane Taylor, ed. Rebecca Dixon (Manchester: Manchester University Press)
• Adrian Armstrong, The Virtuoso Circle: Competition, Collaboration and Complexity in Late Medieval French Poetry (Arizona State University Press)
• Rebecca Dixon, 'Constructing Destruction: Knowledge, Poetry, and the Liège Revolts (1467-68)', forthcoming in the Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire.
• Sylvia Huot, 'The Afterlife of a Twelfth-Century Poet: Marie de France in the Later Middle Ages', forthcoming in the Festschrift for Keith Busby, ed. Catherine Jones and Logan Whalen (Amsterdam: Rodopi).
• Sylvia Huot, 'Finding Aids for the Study of Vernacular Poetry in the Fourteenth-Century: The Example of the Roman de la Rose', forthcoming in the proceedings of the conference 'Lesevorgaenge', University of Freiburg, Switzerland (September 2007), ed. Eckart Conrad Lutz, Martina Backes and Stefan Matter (Zürich: Cronos)
• Sylvia Huot, 'Senshu University MSS 2 and 3 and the Roman de la Rose', forthcoming in Medieval English Literature: Torches from the Ancient World, ed. A.V.C. Schmidt, David Wallace and Tomonori Matsusita (Bern: Peter Lang)
• Sylvia Huot, 'Rewriting Ovid in the Roman de la Rose and the Ovide moralisée', forthcoming in Les Translations d'Ovide, ed. An Faems, Virginie Minet-Mahy and Colette Van Coolput-Storms (Louvain-la-Neuve: Institut d'Etudes Médiévales)
• Sylvia Huot, Dreams of Lovers and Lies of Poets: Poetry, Knowledge, and Desire in the Roman de la Rose, Research Monographs in French Studies (Oxford: Legenda).
• Sarah Kay, 'Knowledge and Truth in Quotations from the Troubadours. Matfre Ermengaud, Compagnon, Lyotard, Lacan', forthcoming in the Australian Journal of French Studies,46 (2009), guest-edited by Sharon Kinoshita.
• Sarah Kay, 'Occitan grammar as a science of endings', forthcoming in New Medieval Literatures, 11 (2009), 'Grammar and the Medieval Schoolroom', ed. Chris Cannon, Rita Copeland and Nicolette Zeeman (publication due in 2011)
• Sarah Kay, 'The monolingualism of the parrot and the prosthesis of origins in Las Navas del papagay', commissioned by Romanic Review (publication due in 2011)
• Finn E. Sinclair, 'Poetic Creation in Jean Froissart's L'Espinette amoureuse and Le Joli Buisson de Jonece', forthcoming in Modern Philology.

Under consideration:

• Adrian Armstrong and Sarah Kay, with the participation of Rebecca Dixon, Miranda Griffin, Sylvia Huot, Francesca Nicholson, and Finn Sinclair, Knowing Poetry in France: from the Rose to the Rhétoriqueurs.
• Miranda Griffin, 'Material and Poetic Knowledge in Christine de Pizan'
• Finn E. Sinclair, 'Froissart and the Re-remembering of Memory'.
• Finn E. Sinclair, 'Myth and Historical Memory in Le Roman de Mélusine'.

Under contract/in preparation:

• Sarah Kay, Parrots and Nightingales. Quotations from the troubadours and the development of the European lyric (in progress)