Horizons of Medieval French and Occitan

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).

• ContentsAcknowledgementsList of Figures and TablesIntroduction: Reimagining the Horizons of Medieval French and OccitanEmma Campbell and Luke Sunderland1 Language and Diversity in Walter de Bibbesworth’s TretizThomas Hinton2 A Blue Banana? Picard, Occitan, and the Dimensions of European Literary History in Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, français 795David Murray3 Warping the Sense to Detect the NormLinguistic (In)correctness and Competing Grammars in the Histoire ancienne jusqu’à César (Thirteenth–Fifteenth Centuries)Simone Ventura4 A French Rose? On the Transmission and Reception of the Roman de la RosePhilippe Frieden5 Viewing Text and Palinode through the Lens of the Manuscripts: Authorial Autocitation and Scribal Editing in Jean Le Fèvre’s Livre de LeesceKaren Pratt6 Silencing through Translation between Occitan, Latin and Catalan: the Revelations of Constance de Rabastens (fl. ca. 1384–1386)Catherine Léglu7 Enjoying Sound, Song, and Supralocal French in Aristotle’s IndiaSarah Kay8 Singing in (Different) Tongues: Sonic and Formal Warfare in Langtoft’s “Political Songs”Jane Gilbert9 Makers of Manuscripts as Readers of Manuscripts: the Montbaston Atelier and the Roman de la RoseMelek Karataş10 Before Time: Cosmology and Embodiment in Arsenal 3516Miranda Griffin11 Grief, Affect, and Embodiment in the Ovide moraliséPeggy McCracken12 Animal Figures in the Bibles moralisées: Medieval Manuscript Culture and BiopoliticsRobert Mills13 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 1505Henry Ravenhall14 The Modes of AvalonMatthew Siôn Lampitt15 Tardif and Technics: Bernard Stiegler’s Technique in the Roman de RenartAlice HazardAfterword: We Have Never Been (Just) MedievalWilliam BurgwinkleBibliography of Work by Simon GauntBibliographyIndex