Early Modern Medievalisms

Alicia C. Montoya, Ph.D. (2005), University of Leiden, is Rosalind Franklin Fellow in Romance Languages at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands). She has published on French medievalism, book history and women authors, including Marie-Anne Barbier et la tragédie post-classique (Champion, 2007).Sophie van Romburgh, Ph.D. (2002), University of Leiden, is a lecturer in English philology at the University of Leiden (The Netherlands). She studies early modern scholarship on medieval Germanic literature, and has published the correspondence of Francis Junius (Brill, 2004).Wim van Anrooij, Ph.D. (1990) in philology, University of Leiden, is Professor of Dutch Literature until Romanticism at the University of Leiden (The Netherlands). He has published on heralds and heraldic poetry, the Nine Worthies and medieval miscellanies.

"The editors of Early Modern Medievalisms deserve high praise for assembling excellent individual contributions representative of a wide range of topics and methodological approaches. Moreover, they should be congratulated on producing a meticulously edited volume." – Richard Utz, Georgia Institute of Technology, in: Spenser Review 43.2.38 (Fall 2013)

• CONTENTSAcknowledgementsNotes on the EditorsNotes on the ContributorsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Questioning Early Modern MedievalismsALICIA C. MONTOYA, SOPHIE VAN ROMBURGH, WIM VAN ANROOIJContinuities and Discontinuities between the Medieval and the Early Modern‘I Desire Therefore I Am’: Petrarch’s Canzoniere between the Medieval and the Modern Notion of DesireELENA F. LOMBARDI Medievalisms in Latin Love Poetry of the Early Italian QuattrocentoCHRISTOPH PIEPEROn Pleasure: Conceptions in Badius’s Stultiferae Naves (1501)ANNE-MARIE DE GENDT From Historical Invention to Literary Myth: Ambivalences and Contradictions in the Early Modern Reception of the Franco-Trojan Genealogy TIPHAINE KARSENTI Early Modern Angelic Song in Francesco Patrizi’s L’Amorosa Filosofia (1577)JACOMIEN PRINSInvoking the Medieval: Between Scholarship and Artistic ProductionRabelaisian Medievalisms: Pantagruel and AmadisPAUL J. SMITH The Portrait of Lady Katherine Grey and her Son: Iconographic Medievalism as a Legitimation StrategyMARTIN SPIESMedieval Tradition Presented in Early Modern Paintings and Inscriptions in Little PolandWALDEMAR KOWALSKI ‘O Fundatrix Begginarum’: St. Begga and her Office in Early Modern Beguine Scholarship and Musical SourcesPIETER MANNAERTSMedievalism and Magic: Illustrating Classical French Fairy Tales DAPHNE HOOGENBOEZEMA Fairy Troubadour? Medieval Matter and the ‘Bon Vieux Temps’ in Women’s Fairy Tales (1730-1750)AURÉLIE ZYGEL-BASSOOld French in the Eighteenth Century: Aucassin et NicolettePETER DAMIAN-GRINT Conceptualizing the Medieval‘Covered in the Thickest Darkness of Forgetfulness’: Humanist Commonplaces and the Defence of Medievalism in Janus Dousa’s Metrical History (1599)COEN MAAS Reproducing the Middle Ages: Abbé Jean-Joseph Rive (1730-1791) and the Study of Manuscript Illumination at the Turn of the Early Modern PeriodANDREA WORMMichelangelo out of Focus: Medievalism as Absent Life in Italian Renaissance ArtJOOST KEIZERJean Mabillon’s Middle Ages: On Medievalism, Textual Criticism, and Monastic IdealsMETTE B. BRUUN The Early Modern Construction of Medieval Jewish ThoughtADAM SHEARIndex Nominum