Revealing New Perspectives

Kevin Brownlee received his B.A. in English from Columbia University, his M.A. in French from Oxford University, and his Ph.D. in Romance languages from Princeton University. He is Emeritus Professor of Medieval French and Italian Literature in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published extensively both on Dante’s Commedia and on the Roman de la Rose, as well as on Guillaume de Machaut, Christine de Pizan, Boccaccio, and Petrarch. Since 2019 he has been on active retirement, with essays published or forthcoming in Bibliotheca Dantesca, Digital Philology, Romania, MLN, Le Moyen Français, and the Lectura Boccaccii. He is interested both in Boccaccio’s vernacular writings and in nineteenth-century treatments of the history and theory of the Crusade. He is currently finishing a book on first-person narrative from the Roman de Fauvel to René d’Anjou (in French), and is working on the political letters and the poetry (both Italian and Latin) of Francesco Petrarca.Marina S. Brownlee received her B.A. in Hispanic studies from Smith College and her Ph.D. in Romance languages from Princeton University. Before joining the Princeton faculty in 2002 she taught and chaired both at Dartmouth College and at the University of Pennsylvania. The Medieval and Early Modern periods are her primary focus, and within them her interests include cultural and linguistic translation, curiosity and the encyclopedia, and representations of the senses. Her books include The Cultural Labyrinth of María de Zayas, The Severed Word: Ovid's ‘Heroides’ and the ‘Novela Sentimental’, The Status of the Reading Subject in the ‘Libro de Buen Amor’, and The Poetics of Literary Theory in Lope and Cervantes. Currently she is writing a book on curiosity and modernity in Early Modern Spain.

• List of Illustrations – Acknowledgments – Kevin Brownlee/Marina S. Brownlee: Introduction, in honor of Stephen G. Nichols – Curriculum Vitae of Stephen G. Nichols – Kevin Brownlee/Marina S. Brownlee: Essays – Gabrielle Spiegel: Materializing Philology: Language, Literature, and Manuscript Culture in the Middle Ages – Mark Chinca: Philology and Poetry: The Petitcreiu Ekphrasis in Gottfried’s Tristan – Daniel Heller-Roazen: Errant Glory: The Lineages of Peter Schlemihl – R. Howard Bloch: Syllogisms in Stone: Theophilus, Stephen, Abelard on the Walls of Notre-Dame de Paris – Nancy Freeman Regalado: Signs on the Wall: Painting History into Satire in the Roman de Fauvel of Paris, BnF MS fr. 146 – Jody Enders: Burlesque Signs: Performance, Translation, and the Betrayal of Sexism – Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet: François Villon and the Ages of Life – Joachim Küpper: The Alterity of Medieval Iberian Poetry – Albert Lloret: The Space in the Poem: Jordi de Sant Jordi, IX & XIV – Michel Zink: Gaston Paris and Anatole France – Nadia Altschul: Fictionalizing Modernization Theory in Alejo Carpentier’s Los Pasos Perdidos: The Middle Ages in the Jungle – Marina S. Brownlee: Material and Spiritual Exchange: Examples from the Greek East and Latin West – Andreas Kablitz: Boccaccio’s Decameron—Novella I, 3 – Kevin Brownlee: Chaucer’s Early and Late Uses of the Two French Rose Authors – Kathy Krause: Narrative and History in Paris, BnF, fr. 1553: The Roman de la Violette in the Context of a Late 13th-Century Anthology Manuscript – Tracy Adams: Sapience, Prudence, and Theatricality: Preparing the Political Princess – List of Contributors – Index.

“The breadth of topic and learning in this celebratory volume are a fitting tribute to the remarkable Stephen Nichols. It would be difficult to imagine a more distinguished international array of colleagues, all writing in warm admiration of Nichols’s pioneering influence in manuscript studies, the visual arts, narrative, drama, and lyric in Italian, Iberian, German, Byzantine Greek, and Middle English as well as French. Kevin Brownlee and Marina S. Brownlee have assembled a vital testament to the ‘pathos and passion of philology’ in its most contemporary and medieval senses.”—Ardis Butterfield, John M. Schiff Professor of English; Professor of French and of Music, Yale University