Futures of Medieval French

JANE GILBERT is Professor of Medieval Literature and Critical Theory at University College London, UK. MIRANDA GRIFFIN is University Lecturer in Medieval French at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Murray Edwards College. JANE GILBERT is Professor of Medieval Literature and Critical Theory at University College London, UK. MIRANDA GRIFFIN is University Lecturer in Medieval French at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Murray Edwards College. DEBORAH McGRADY is Professor of French at the University of Virginia and Director of the Medieval Studies Program. ELIZABETH EVA LEACH is Professor of Music at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy. Her work focuses on song in the medieval West in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

The range and ambition of Sarah Kay's ground-breaking work is reflected in this Festschrift, which demonstrates the richness of medieval French scholarship and indicates how central Kay's work has been to its development in the anglophone world.

• Introduction - Jane Gilbert and Miranda GriffinThird Gender Solace - William BurgwinkleTroubadour Selves under Debate - Miriam Cabré'Je tiens ma personne morte': Subjectivity in Fifteenth-Century Courtly Poetry - Helen J. Swift'He wishes that everyone were leprous like him': Infectious Counternarratives in Ami et Amile - Charlie SamuelsonFeminism-plus: Sarah Kay's The 'Chansons de geste' in the Age of Romance: Political Fictions and the 'Roman de' Waldef' - Jocelyn Wogan-BrowneConnected literature: Chansons de geste, Burgundian livres de gestes, and the Writing of Literary Theory Today - Zrinka StahuljakFinding Contradiction in Guiraut Riquier - Susan BoyntonAt the Bleeding Edge of Courtly Love - Joseph R. JohnsonLogic, Meaning, and Imagination - Virginie GreenePlaces of Thought: Environment, Perception, and Textual Identity in Medieval Vernacular Manuscripts - Stephen G. NicholsThe Disembodied Tongue; or, The Place of the Book in the Livre de la Cité des dames - Christine BourgeoisThe Place of Pain: Confronting the Trauma and Complexity of Kingship in the Political Dream Narrative - Deborah McGradyQuoting Lyrics and Subjectivities in the Chastelaine de Vergy - Sophie MarnetteTroubadour Attachments - Emily Kate PriceForms of Repetition: Sestinas in the Twenty-First Century - Simone VenturaBetween Skin(s), Between Faiths: Caesura, Animality and Comedy in Thirteenth-Century Christian-Jewish Relations - James R. SimpsonRupturing Skin through the Power of Vox - Elizabeth Eva LeachSheep, Elephants, and Marco Polo's Devisement du monde - Sharon KinoshitaAfterword - Simon Gaunt and Peggy McCrackenGeneral BibliographyBibliography of work by Sarah Kay