Courtly Arts and the Art of Courtliness

GLORIA ALLAIRE is Associate Professor of Italian at the University of Kentucky. Her primary research interest has been Italian chivalric literature of the late Middle Ages. Joseph M. Sullivan is an Associate Professor of German at the University of Oklahoma MAUREEN BOULTON Professor of French, Department of Romance Languages & Literatures, University of Notre Dame. Monica L. Wright is the Granger and Debaillon Professor of French and Medieval Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA. Her research focuses on the use of clothing in medieval French literature.

This substantial volume reflects the richness and variety of courtly literature as well as the diversity of critical lenses through which contemporary scholars view medieval texts.

• ForewordBook-Burning at Don Quixote's: Thoughts on the Educating Force of Courtly Romance - C. Stephen JaegerMusic and the Origins of Courtliness - The Crusade as Context: The Manuscripts of Athis et Prophilias - Richard Rouse and Mary RouseContext and Reception: A Crusading Collection for Charles IV of France - Mary Rouse and Richard RouseThe Anti-Romances of Andrea da Baberino - Gloria AllaireFrom Trojan to Briton: Brutus's Masculinity and Lineage in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae - Laura D. BarefieldLe Roman de fils du roi Costant: vertigier en "fin' amant" - Anne BerthelotAdultery and Death in Shot Rustaveli's The Man in the Panther Skin - G. Koolemans BeynenCourtly Revision of Wace's Roman de Brut in British Library Egerton MS 3028 - Jean BlackerBurgundian Devotional Manuscripts: Philip the Good - Maureen BoultonMirror Characters - Frank BrandsmaMS Sion Supersaxo 97bis: A Profeminine Reading of Alan Chartier's Verse - Baldesar Castiglione and The Book of the Courtier: Being a Musician, the Courtier May Achieve His Highest Goal: The Balance and Harmony of SpiritSpirit - Marco CerocchiA Good Tale, and Reading It Well: Truth, Fiction and a Future Critical Perspective on Gottfried's Tristan - Christopher R. ClasonDire l'amour: étude comparée des modes du discours dans le De Amore d'André le Chapelain, le Collier de la Colombe et le Kama SutraSutra - Alain CorbellariThe Representations of Illness in the Hispani Chivalric Romance - Ivy A. CorfisThe Scope and Importance of the Color Palettes Used by the Conte du Graal Miniaturists - Paul CreamerLe Lai du Laüstic: espace poétic où forme et fond fusionnent - Evelyne DattaGiving the Devil His Due: Justice and Equity in L'Advocacie Nostre Dame - Judith DavisDesire, Subjectivity, and Subjection in Bernart de Ventadorn's "Can vei la lauzeta mover" - Fidel Fajardo-AcostaQuelle fin pour un eseignement d'un père à son fils? La clôture du texte dans les manuscrits des Fables Pierre Aufors (Chastoiement d'un père à son fils, version A)son fils, version A) - Yasmina Foehr-Janssens"Tel cuide vengier sa honte qui l'accroist": Wrath in Jean d'Arras's Roman de Mélusine - Stacey L. HahnChallenging the Court: Kings and Queens in Les miracles de Nostre Dame par personages - Carol J HarveyLove is a Monologue: The Lack of Courtship in Old French Courtly Narrative - Kathy M. KrauseThe Mulier mediatrix in the Deus Amanz of Marie de France - June Hall McCashThe End of the "Courtly Book" in Wolfram's Titurel - Matthias M A MeyerChaucer, Astronomy, and Astrology: A Courtly Connection - Edward J. MilowickiInscribing the Breath of a Speaking Voice: Vox Sponsae in St. Bernard's Sermons on the Canticles and in Chrétien's Erec et Enide - Jeanne A. NightingaleFrom Court to Empire: The Peninsular Trajectory of Oliveier de Castille - Ana PairetChristmas Gifts in Medieval Occitania: Matfre Ermengaud's Letter to His Sister - Pat AyersReading Harley 978: Marie de France in Context - Rupert PickensMonstrous Children of Lanval: The Cantare of Ponzela Gaia - Maria Bendinelli PredelliCompilers and Users of Medieval German Song Collections (1250-1500) - Silvia RanawakeThe Promise of Laughter: Irony and Allegory in Le conte dou graal and Li chevaliers as deus espees - Paul Vincent RockwellIncipit Citation in French Lyric Poetry of the Twelfth through Fourteenth Centuries - Samuel N. RosenbergMinor Characters in Marie de France's Lais: Messengers and Their Messages - Judith Rice RothschildTalking about the Poem in the Poem - Perhaps for Special Reasons? The Author (Male Author?) versus the Female "I" of the Poem? - Marianne SandelsSkeptical Takes on Courtly Culture in Les Miracles de Nostre Dame par personnages - Susan L. Stakel"daz hât diu harpfe getân": Music and Performance of Courtly Culture in Middle High German Courtly Literature - Alexandra Sterling-HellenbrandThe Merchant's Residence and Garden as locus amoenus in the Yiddish Dukus Horant - Joseph M. SullivanRomantic Love to the Death: The Fair Maiden of Astolat in Malory's Morte D'Arthur and Lady Ariko in The Tale of Heike - Yuko TagayaUncourtly Texts in Courtly Books: Observations on MS Chantilly, Musée Condé 475 - Richard TrachslerAuthority and Auctoritas in the Works of Jean Bodel - Adrian P. Tudor"Pour ce que cuers ne puet mentir": le personnage matenel dans Galeran de Bretagne de Renaut - Marion UhligRe-Examining Wace's Round Table - Lori J. WaltersEx libris Mariae: Courtly Book Iconography in the Illuminated Manuscripts of Marie de France - Logan E. WhalenInstructing the Court: Raimon Vidal's Pedagogy for the Courtly Joglar - Valerie M. WilhiteChemise and Ceinture: Marie de France's Guigemar and the Use of Textiles - Monica L. WrightEquinec. A Recently Discovered Fourteenth Lai Composed by Marie de France - Walter A Blue