Companion to Alain Chartier (c.1385-1430)

Daisy Delogu (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 2003) is Associate Professor of French at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Theorizing the Ideal Sovereign (Toronto, 2008) and Allegorical Bodies: Power and Gender in Late Medieval France (Toronto, 2015).Joan E. McRae (Ph.D. University of Virginia, 1997), Professor of French at Middle Tennessee State University has published Alain Chartier: The Quarrel of the Belle dame sans mercy (Routledge, 2004) and Le Cycle de la Belle Dame sans mercy, with David Hult (Champion 2003).Emma Cayley (BA, MA, DPhil Oxford) is Head of Modern Languages and Associate Professor of Medieval French at the University of Exeter. Her publications on Chartier include Debate and Dialogue (OUP, 2006); Chartier in Europe with Ashby Kinch (Brewer, 2008).

• AcknowledgementsList of ContributorsList of FiguresList of AbbreviationsIntroductionDaisy Delogu, Joan E. McRae, and Emma CayleySECTION 1 -- CHARTIER IN HIS CULTURAL, LITERARY, AND MATERIAL CONTEXT1. Alain Chartier: A Historical and Biographical OverviewJames Laidlaw2. Alain Chartier’s Singularity, Or How Sources Make an AuthorAndrea Tarnowski3. The Bilingual Chartier: Authorial Duality and Identity in the French and Latin œuvre of Alain Chartier Emma Cayley with the collaboration of HannoWijsman4. The Illuminated Manuscripts of the Works of Alain ChartierCamille SerchukSECTION 2 -- APPROACHES TO CHARTIER5. Performance and Polemic: Gender and Emotion in the Works of Alain Chartier Daisy Delogu6. Alain Chartier and Chivalry: Debating Knighthood in the Context of the Hundred Years WarCraig Taylor7. Alain Chartier, Political WriterJean-Claude Mühlethaler SECTION 3 -- TEXTUAL COMMUNITIES8. “Que tous se rallïent”: Alain Chartier, Pierre de Nesson, and the Poetics of Peace Deborah McGrady9. A Community of Readers: The Quarrel of the Belle Dame sans mercyJoan McRae10. The Manuscript and the Print TraditionLiv RobinsonSECTION 4 -- CHARTERIAN INFLUENCE11. Alain Chartier and Medieval Catalan LiteratureMarta Marfany12. Chartier’s European InfluenceAshby Kinch13. Alain Chartier and the RhétoriqueursAdrian Armstrong14. A Good Carter as Guide: Imitating Alain Chartier (15th century – early 17th century)Florence BouchetBibliographyIndex

“This is an extraordinarily useful collection of essays that will be of interest to Chartier experts and newcomers alike. It engages with the major critics and trends in Charterian scholarship, opening it up in new directions and suggesting possibilities for yet further research […]. Each individual essay makes a unique contribution while also coinciding with the volume’s overall aims; the collection’s thorough citations will be valuable to any scholar, as will the selected bibliography of primary and secondary sources.”Kathleen A. Loysen, Montclair State University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 70, No. 2 (Summer 2017), pp. 645-646.