Philippe de Mézières and His Age

Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Ph.D. (1980) in French Literature, Princeton, is Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Among her books are Reading Myth: Classical Mythology and its Interpretations in Medieval French Literature (1997) and Poets, Saints, and Visionaries of the Great Schism, 1378-1417 (2006).Kiril Petkov, Ph.D.(2002) in Medieval History, NYU, is Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. He is the author of Infidels, Turks, and Women: The South Slavs in the German Mind (1997); The Kiss of Peace: Ritual, Self, and Society in the High and Late Medieval West (2003), and The Voices of Medieval Bulgaria, Seventh-Fifteenth Century: The Records of a Bygone Culture (2008).

• Acknowledgements ... ixIntroduction ... 1Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski and Kiril PetkovA TANGLED WORLD: LITERATURE OF CONNECTIVITY IN MEZIERES’ AGEEntre Occident et Orient. Philippe de Mezieres (vers 1327–1405) : itineraires maritimes et spirituels ... 19Philippe Contamine“Noi siamo mercatanti cipriani” : How to Do Things in the Medieval Mediterranean ... 41Sharon KinoshitaPhilippe de Mezieres and the Peace Movement ... 61Michael HanlyTrois lettres pour la posterite : la correspondance entre Philippe de Mezieres, Boniface Lupi et Francois Petrarque (ms. Arsenal 499) ... 83Evelien ChayesThe Vieil Solitaire and the Seulette: Contemplative Solitude as Political Theology in Philippe de Mezieres, Christine de Pizan, and Jean Gerson ... 119Lori J. WaltersPOLITICS AS SPIRITUAL ALLEGORYHow to Become the “roy des frans” : The Performance of Kingship in Philippe de Mezieres’s Le songe du vieil pelerin ... 147Daisy DeloguThe Figure of Peter I and the Status of Cyprus in Le songe du vieil pelerin: Crusade Ideology, Salvation History, and Authorial Self-Representation ... 165Kevin BrownleeLiterature and Chivalric Education in Philippe de Mézières’Le songe du vieil pelerin ... 189Stefan Vander ElstUne exemplarité déconstruite : la polémique sur Alexandre et le procès de la littérature de fiction dans Le songe du vieil pelerin ... 207Catherine Gaullier-BougassasA Religion in Its Time: Numerology and Moral Alchemy in Philippe de Mézières’ Work ... 225Joël BlanchardThe Consolations of Writing Allegory : Philippe de Mézières’Le songe du vieil pelerin ... 237Andrea TarnowskiContempler le miroir de la passion : Philippe de Mézières et les mystiques ... 255Anna LobaA SOLDIER AND A DIPLOMATPhilippe de Mézières et les républiques maritimes italiennes ... 271Michel BalardPhilippe de Mézières and the Military History of the Fourteenth Century ... 283John FranceWar or Peace? Philippe de Mézières, Richard II and Anglo-French Diplomacy ... 295Anne CurryEnglish Members of the Order of the Passion: Their Political, Diplomatic and Military Significance ... 321Adrian BellAFFINITIES & CONTRASTS: MEZIERES, HIS FELLOW-TRAVELERS, AND HIS “OTHERS”Machaut, Mezieres, Makhairas and Amadi: Constructing the Reign of Peter I (1359–1369) ... 349Peter EdburyApologists or Critics? The Reign of Peter I of Lusignan (1359–1369) Viewed by Philippe de Mezieres (1327–1405) and Leontios Makhairas (ca. 1360/80–after 1432) ... 359Angel Nicolaou-KonnariWestern Merchants, Pilgrims, and Travelers in Alexandria in the Time of Philippe de Mezieres (ca. 1327–1405) ... 403David Jacoby“Alexandrie, ville sous haute surveillance.” Voyage et espionnage aux XIV–XVe siecles, d’apres les recits de voyageurs et de pelerins occidentaux ... 427Henri GourinardHistorical Narration and Digression in al-Nuwairī al-Iskandarānī’s Kitāb al-Ilmām ... 451David Joseph WrisleySPECIAL NOTEPhilippe de Mezieres et l’universite ... 477Sylvain PironAppendix: Brief Overview of the Great Schism of the Western Church (1378–1417) ... 485Contributors ... 489Bibliography ... 497Index ... 525