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Le « cuer » au Moyen Âge

Autore: Begoña Aguiriano , Jean Arrouye , Jean-claude Bibolet , Régine Colliot , Joëlle Fuhrmann , Gérard Gros , Denis Hüe , Marie-thérèse Lorcin , Michel Moulis , Guy Paoli , Gabriella Parussa , May Plouzeau , Christiane Raynaud , Geneviève Sodigné-costes , Antoine Tavera , Jean-jacques Vincensini , Jean-marc Pastré , Bernard Ribemont , Micheline De Combarieu Du Grès , Alain Labbé , Jean Lacroix , Marie Anne Polo De Beaulieu , Roy Rosenstein , Elina Suomela-harma , Isabelle Weill

Numero di pagine: 300

À qui parcourt la littérature médiévale apparaît clairement l'importance du motif du cœur au sein de multiples genres littéraires. Les occurrences de « cuer » sont multiples et interviennent en de nombreuses circonstances. Le cœur se révèle ainsi être la racine de quantité d'équations posées au centre du tumulte des sentiments humains, dont le « corage » est finalement la résultante : traduire l'humeur générale d'un être par un tel dérivé, où « cœur » se lit sans cesse en filigrane, est bien la marque, inscrite au sein du langage, du maître-rôle qui lui est assigné dans la gestion des passions.

I poeti della scuola siciliana: Poeti della corte di Federico II

Autore: Roberto Antonelli , Costanzo Di Girolamo , Rosario Coluccia , Centro Di Studi Filologici E Linguistici Siciliani

Numero di pagine: 1336

Il nome dell’autore

Autore: Autori Vari

Numero di pagine: 199

Otto studiosi, docenti presso diverse università europee e riuniti attorno a Giulia Lanciani, hanno deciso di offrire al loro amico e maestro Giuseppe Tavani una miscellanea di articoli che si prefigge di esplorare il vasto ambito dell’attribuzione dei nomi d’autore nei testi medievali. Ma il nome è solo un pretesto retorico attraverso il quale l’autore si sottrae a qualsiasi possibilità d’identificazione storica, sotto le sembianze d’un narratore o d’un cantore lirico? E qual è il valore degli anagrammi o degli epiteti giullareschi che appaiono nei testi; quale il ruolo degli amanuensi o dei responsabili dei vari scriptoria nell’inventare e catalogare i nomi d’autore?

The Kingdom of Sicily, 1100-1250

Autore: Karla Mallette

Numero di pagine: 222

When Muslim invaders conquered Sicily in the ninth century, they took control of a weakened Greek state in cultural decadence. When, two centuries later, the Normans seized control of the island, they found a Muslim state just entering its cultural prime. Rather than replace the practices and idioms of the vanquished people with their own, the Normans in Sicily adopted and adapted the Greco-Arabic culture that had developed on the island. Yet less than a hundred years later, the cultural and linguistic mix had been reduced, a Romance tradition had come to dominate, and Sicilian poets composed the first body of love lyrics in an Italianate vernacular. Karla Mallette has written the first literary history of the Kingdom of Sicily in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Where other scholars have separated out the island's literature along linguistic grounds, Mallette surveys the literary production in Arabic, Latin, Greek, and Romance dialects, in addition to the architectural remains, numismatic inscriptions, and diplomatic records, to argue for a multilingual, multicultural, and coherent literary tradition. Drawing on postcolonial theory to consider institutional and intellectual...

Dante's Idea of Friendship

Autore: Filippa Modesto

Numero di pagine: 266

In Dante's Idea of Friendship, Filippa Modesto offers sharp readings of theCommedia, Vita Nuova, and Convivio that demonstrate Dante's interest in that theme.

Dante and the Dynamics of Textual Exchange

Autore: Jelena Todorović

Numero di pagine: 327

Dante and the Dynamics of Textual Exchange is the first book-length study to explore the question of poetry and genre in Dante’s Vita Nova (ca. 1292–1294). In paying particular attention to complex and multifaceted interactions between different cultures in Italy in the thirteenth century, this study illuminates the multicultural and plurilinguistic society transitioning from the feudal court to the modern city-state, advanced by the rising mercantile class. Working at the intersection of textual, material, and cultural elements, this study complements the current state of scholarship by providing information and answers informed by an in-depth analysis of the manuscript culture and its role in the birth and development of European vernacular traditions. Furthermore, Dante and the Dynamics of Textual Exchange expands the literature’s understanding of the dynamics between a text and its material support by looking at this relationship within a broader framework of intercultural exchange, which suggests an increased dynamics and fluidity between cultures.

Dante's Comedy and the Ethics of Invective in Medieval Italy

Autore: Nicolino Applauso

Numero di pagine: 351

Dante's Comedy and the Ethics of Invective in Medieval Italy proposes a new approach to invective and comic poetry in Italy during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and opens the way for an innovative understanding of Dante’s masterpiece. The Middle Ages in Italy offer a wealth of vernacular poetic invectives—polemical verses aimed at blaming specific wrongdoings of an individual, group, city or institution— that are both understudied and rarely juxtaposed. No study has yet provided a scholarly examination of the connection between this medieval invective tradition, and its elements of humor, derision, and reprehension in Dante’s Comedy. This book argues that these comic texts are rooted in and actively engaged with the social, political, and religious conflicts of their time. Political invective has a dynamic ethical orientation that is mediated by a humor that disarms excessive hostility against its individual targets, providing an opening for dialogue. While exploring medieval comic poems by Rustico Filippi (from Florence), Cecco Angiolieri (from Siena), and Folgore da San Gimignano, this study unveils new biographical data about these poets retrieved from Italian ...

Dynamics of Morphological Productivity

Autore: Francesco Gardani

Numero di pagine: 552

In Dynamics of Morphological Productivity, Francesco Gardani explores the evolution of the productivity of the noun inflectional classes of Latin and Old Italian, covering a span of almost 2,000 years – an absolute novelty for the theory of diachrony and for Latin and Italo-Romance linguistics. By providing an original set of criteria for measuring productivity, based on the investigation of loanword integration, conversions, and class shift, Gardani provides a substantial contribution to the theory of inflection, as well as to the study of the morphological integration of loanwords. The result is a wealth of empirical facts, including data from the contact languages Etruscan, Ancient Greek, Germanic, Arabic, Byzantine Greek, Old French and Provençal, accompanied by brilliant and groundbreaking analyses.

Letteratura italiana delle origini

Autore: Gianfranco Contini

Numero di pagine: 975

In un'opera diventata un punto di riferimento imprescindibile, uno dei più grandi critici del Novecento ci accompagna all'origine della nostra letteratura: con la capacità di analisi e lo stile unico che lo contraddistinguono, Gianfranco Contini esamina le fondamentali trasformazioni portate alla lingua e alla letteratura italiana dalle "tre corone" Dante, Petrarca e Boccaccio, indaga il ruolo cruciale rivestito da scuole e autori "minori" nel diffondere un nuovo linguaggio poetico ed evidenzia le peculiarità di opere nate in un contesto linguistico-culturale irripetibile, caratterizzato dall'incontro tra latino e volgari regionali. Attraverso un'accurata scelta di testi, Contini ci restituisce per intero il fascino e la grandezza di decenni ancora oggi considerati tra i più fulgidi nella storia poetica dell'umanità, e mostra perché il Duecento costituisce davvero "il secolo incomparabilmente più importante delle nostre lettere".

Le gioie del sanscrito

Autore: Giovanna Ghidetti

Numero di pagine: 218

Che cos’è il sanscrito, visto da noi occidentali? Perché piace tanto a intellettuali, sceneggiatori, musicisti e persino fumettisti, visto che quasi nessuno lo parla? Ma soprattutto: perché mai dovrebbe interessarci oggi studiare un idioma antico dell’India, tanto lontano nel tempo e nello spazio? Ripercorrendo la storia della conoscenza di questa lingua, che ha caratteristiche diverse da ogni altra, si può scoprire quanto sia un luogo comune che le lettere antiche siano morte e inattuali. Il sanscrito in particolare ha fama di essere al tempo stesso ostico ed esotico, un codice magico per adepti e mistici oppure un vezzo per virtuosisti da salotto o semplicemente un gergo per appassionati di discipline orientali: invece ricopre un ruolo fondamentale non solo per la linguistica ma anche per lo studio della logica. Apprenderne la grammatica è un allenamento formidabile per la mente, per l’uso delle categorie razionali e anche come introduzione all’informatica. Le vicende che hanno accompagnato la scoperta di questa «lingua perfetta», dall’oriente antico all’occidente moderno, raccontano come sia stata oggetto da un lato di una minuziosa analisi che ne ha fatto...

Bosch and Bruegel

Autore: Joseph Leo Koerner

Numero di pagine: 432

A bold new interpretation of two northern Renaissance masters In this visually stunning and much anticipated book, acclaimed art historian Joseph Koerner casts the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel in a completely new light, revealing how the painting of everyday life was born from what seems its polar opposite: the depiction of an enemy hell-bent on destroying us. Supreme virtuoso of the bizarre, diabolic, and outlandish, Bosch embodies the phantasmagorical force of painting, while Bruegel, through his true-to-life landscapes and frank depictions of peasants, is the artistic avatar of the familiar and ordinary. But despite their differences, the works of these two artists are closely intertwined. Bruegel began his career imitating Bosch's fantasies, and it was Bosch who launched almost the whole repertoire of later genre painting. But Bosch depicts everyday life in order to reveal it as an alluring trap set by a metaphysical enemy at war with God, whereas Bruegel shows this enemy to be nothing but a humanly fabricated mask. Attending closely to the visual cunning of these two towering masters, Koerner uncovers art history’s unexplored underside: the image itself...

Progrès, réaction, décadence dans l'Occident médiéval

Autore: Emmanuèle Baumgartner , Laurence Harf-lancner

Numero di pagine: 284

Le mot progrès n'existe pas au Moyen Age. Et le concept de progrès affleure à peine dans la pensée occidentale. Il est d'autant plus intéressant de réfléchir aujourd'hui sur ses premières manifestations, à un moment où le mythe du progrès, triomphant du XVIIIe au XXe siècle, est radicalement remis en question, et de s'interroger sur la variation des idéaux, des idéologies et de leurs champs d'application au cours des siècles. Au Moyen Age, les cadres mentaux sont peu compatibles avec l'idée de progrès. Pourtant le christianisme donne un sens à l'histoire et liquide le mythe antique de l'éternel retour et la conception cyclique de l'histoire. Mais le mépris du monde implique le mépris du progrès matériel. Le seul but envisageable est le progrès moral, défini comme recherche du salut éternel. L'idée de progrès apparaît cependant dans les mentalités médiévales à travers un jeu d'oppositions, progrès/réaction, progrès/décadence, passé/présent, antique/moderne, qui implique une réflexion dans les registres historique et politique mais aussi éthique et culturel.

Le sujet amoureux dans la poésie médiévale

Autore: Franco Costantini

Numero di pagine: 410

This book studies the relationship between the textual organization of Cavalcanti’s, Dante’s, and Petrarch’s lyric collections and the construction of the lyric subject in this type of love poetry. Between ruptures and competition, the conflict of subjectivities, i.e. between an active, volitional subject and a passive subject, veils a conflict of temporality, between teleology of the narration and lyric circularity.

Colloque international sur la recherche en domaine occitan

Autore: Collectif , Colloque International Sur La Recherche En Domaine Occitan

Numero di pagine: 141

Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine.

Cinquante ans d'études épiques

Autore: Société Rencesvals

Numero di pagine: 408

Ce volume reprend le texte des communications prononcees lors du colloque organise par la Societe Rencesvals pour letude des epopees romanes a loccasion de son cinquantieme anniversaire. Apres un Historique (M. Tyssens), qui retrace les grands debats qui ont anime la Societe Rencesvals, une serie de contributions vise a dresser le bilan des etudes epiques conduites depuis 1955 dans les principaux centres qui ont contribue a la recherche dans ce domaine: en Allemagne (H. Krauss), en Belgique (J. Horrent), en Espagne (C. Alvar), aux Etats-Unis et au Canada (W. Kibler), en France et en Suisse (B. Guidot), en Grande-Bretagne et en Scandinavie (Ph. Bennett), en Italie (A. Varvaro), au Japon (Y. Otaka), aux Pays-Bas (H. Van Dijk). Enfin, trois syntheses thematiques abordent des champs dinvestigation feconds qui ouvrent encore de belles perspectives davenir: La matiere rolandienne, (G. Palumbo); Les mises en prose epiques (Cl. Thiry); Lepopee hors dEurope: apport des epopees africaines de lOuest (Fr. Suard). Ces Actes rassemblent ainsi une tres riche bibliographie sur les epopees romanes, et en particulier la liste complete des etudes produites sur la matiere rolandienne entre 1975 et...

Poésie :

Autore: Jacques Roubaud

Numero di pagine: 737

Poésie Offrir, au commencement de l'an 2000, la lecture d'un livre dont le titre contient un mot, poésie, qui sert aujourd'hui à désigner bien des choses - le roman, la chanson, le Plan, les couchers de soleil, etc. - sauf ce dont il est question dans ces pages, pourra surprendre. C'est ainsi. Jacques Roubaud

The Song of Songs and Its Tradition in Renaissance Love Lyric

Autore: Camilla Caporicci

Numero di pagine: 481

Traditionally attributed to King Solomon and called by Rabbi Akiva the “Holy of Holies” among sacred Scriptures (Mishnah, Yadayim 3:5), the Song of Songs is one of the most fascinating and controversial biblical books, and played an essential role in the shaping of European spirituality and culture. Combining in a unique way a sensual and deeply lyrical celebration of love with a well-established tradition of Christian allegorical interpretation, this text, crucial to both the Middle Ages and the early modern period, held a particular appeal for poets devoted not only to religious verse, but also to love poetry. The Song of Songs and Its Tradition in Renaissance Love Lyric is the first systematic and wide-ranging investigation of the multifaceted use of the Song of Songs in Renaissance love lyric poetry, with specific attention to Italian, French, and, especially, English poetic production. At the same time, this investigation is embedded into a narrative that, comprising two initial chapters devoted to medieval poetry and to Francesco Petrarca, represents an unprecedented attempt to trace the role of the Song of Songs in the rise and development of the European love lyric,...

Textual Cultures of Medieval Italy

Autore: William Randolph Robins

Numero di pagine: 369

Based on papers presented at the 41st Conference on Editorial Problems held at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont., from Nov. 6 - 8th, 2005.

Linguistic Theories in Dante and the Humanists

Autore: Angelo Mazzocco

Numero di pagine: 302

Dante Alighieri's argument on the question of the language stimulated the debate among fifteenth century humanists. This book provides a novel and open-ended reading of Dante's literature on language as well as a systematic reconstruction of the whole body of humanistic literature on linguistic phenomena.

Handbook of Medieval Studies

Autore: Albrecht Classen

Numero di pagine: 2822

This interdisciplinary handbook provides extensive information about research in medieval studies and its most important results over the last decades. The handbook is a reference work which enables the readers to quickly and purposely gain insight into the important research discussions and to inform themselves about the current status of research in the field. The handbook consists of four parts. The first, large section offers articles on all of the main disciplines and discussions of the field. The second section presents articles on the key concepts of modern medieval studies and the debates therein. The third section is a lexicon of the most important text genres of the Middle Ages. The fourth section provides an international bio-bibliographical lexicon of the most prominent medievalists in all disciplines. A comprehensive bibliography rounds off the compendium. The result is a reference work which exhaustively documents the current status of research in medieval studies and brings the disciplines and experts of the field together.

Knights at Court

Autore: Aldo Scaglione

Numero di pagine: 518

Knights at Court is a grand tour and survey of manners, manhood, and court life in the Middle Ages, like no other in print. Composed on an epic canvas, this authoritative work traces the development of court culture and its various manifestations from the latter years of the Holy Roman Empire (ca. A.D. 1000) to the Italian Renaissance of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Leading medievalist and Renaissance scholar Aldo Scaglione offers a sweeping sociological view of three geographic areas that reveals a surprising continuity of courtly forms and motifs: German romances; the lyrical and narrative literature of northern and southern France; Italy's chivalric poetry. Scaglione discusses a broad number of texts, from early Norman and Flemish baronial chronicles to the romances of Chrétien de Troyes, the troubadours and Minnesingers. He delves into the Niebelungenlied, Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, and an array of treatises on conduct down to Castiglione and his successors. All these works and Scaglione's superior scholarship attest to the enduring power over minds and hearts of a mentality that issued from a small minority of people—the courtiers and knights—in central...

The Arthur of the Italians

Numero di pagine: 536

This is the first comprehensive book on the Arthurian legend in medieval and Renaissance Italy since Edmund Gardner’s 1930 The Arthurian Legend in Italian Literature. Arthurian material reached all levels of Italian society, from princely courts with their luxury books and frescoed palaces, to the merchant classes and even popular audiences in the piazza, which enjoyed shorter retellings in verse and prose. Unique assemblages emerge on Italian soil, such as the Compilation of Rustichello da Pisa or the innovative Tavola Ritonda, in versions made for both Tuscany and the Po Valley. Chapters examine the transmission of the French romances across Italy; reworkings in various Italian regional dialects; the textual relations of the prose Tristan; narrative structures employed by Italian writers; later ottava rima poetic versions in the new medium of printed books; the Arthurian-themed art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance; and more. The Arthur of the Italians offers a rich corpus of new criticism by scholars who have brought the Italian Arthurian material back into critical conversation.

Routledge Revivals: Medieval Italy (2004)

Autore: Christopher Kleinhenz

Numero di pagine: 1648

First published in 2004, Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia provides an introduction to the many and diverse facets of Italian civilization from the late Roman empire to the end of the fourteenth century. It presents in two volumes articles on a wide range of topics including history, literature, art, music, urban development, commerce and economics, social and political institutions, religion and hagiography, philosophy and science. This illustrated, A-Z reference is a cross-disciplinary resource and will be of key interest not only to students and scholars of history but also to those studying a range of subjects, as well as the general reader.

Dante

Autore: John Took

Numero di pagine: 608

"For all that has been written about the author of the Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) remains the best guide to his own life and work. Dante's writings are therefore never far away in this authoritative and comprehensive intellectual biography, which offers a fresh account of the medieval Florentine poet's life and thought before and after his exile in 1302. Beginning with the often violent circumstances of Dante's life, the book examines his successive works as testimony to the course of his passionate humanity: his lyric poetry through to the Vita nova as the great work of his first period; the Convivio, De vulgari eloquentia and the poems of his early years in exile; and the Monarchia and the Commedia as the product of his maturity. Describing as it does a journey of the mind, the book confirms the nature of Dante's undertaking as an exploration of what he himself speaks of as "maturity in the flame of love." The result is an original synthesis of Dante's life and work." --Amazon.com.

Where Troubadours were Bishops

Autore: Nicole M. Schulman

Numero di pagine: 354

Using one man as a lens, a man known variously as Folquet, Folques, Folco, and Folc, it will examine some of the important changes and developments of the period from a new, more human, perspective.

Ambivalent Conventions

Autore: Anne Elizabeth Cobby

Numero di pagine: 190

Much work has already been done on the conventions and formulae of Old French literature, particularly epic literature, and on parody in the French Middle Ages. This book links these approaches, widens the concept of 'formula', and aims to show that certain authors, far from being enslaved by the conventions within which they worked, were conscious of them and could master them with sufficient independence to exploit them for calculated literary effect, and in particular for parody. It studies the fabliaux, Aucassin et Nicolette and Le Pèlerinage de Charlemagne, texts in which formulae play a varied and subtle part. In the fabliaux we find that formulae borrowed from serious literature add parodic depth to the often simple humour of these tales, but that the genre as a whole is not essentially parodic. Aucassin et Nicolette uses conventions to arouse expectations which may or may not be satisfied; parody proves to be fundamental to this work. The approach shows its full potential when applied to Le Pèlerinage de Charlemagne; study of this text's use of formulae of the epic and romance traditions reveals a high degree of complexity and a finely nuanced parody.

Marian Devotion in Thirteenth-century French Lyric

Autore: Daniel E. O'sullivan

Numero di pagine: 281

Texts centred on the mother of Jesus abound in religious traditions the world over, but thirteenth-century Old French lyric stands apart, both because of the enormous size of the Marian cult in thirteenth-century France and the lack of critical attention the genre has garnered from scholars. As hybrid texts, Old French Marian songs combine motifs from several genres and registers to articulate a devotional message. In this comprehensive and illuminating study, Daniel E. O'Sullivan examines the movement between secular and religious traditions in medieval culture that Old French religious song embodies. He demonstrates that Marian lyric was far more than a simple, mindless imitation of secular love song. On the contrary, Marian lyric participated in a dynamic interplay with the secular tradition that different composers shaped and reshaped in light of particular doctrinal and aesthetic concerns. It is a corpus that reveals itself to be far more malleable and supple than past readers have admitted. With an extensive index of musical and textual editions of dozens of songs, Marian Devotion in Thirteenth-Century French Lyric brings a heretofore neglected genre to light.

Cassell Dictionary Italian Literature

Autore: Peter Bondanella , Julia Conway Bondanella

Numero di pagine: 733

The Cassell Dictionary of Italian Literature includes some 400 entries on major and minor Italian writers from the twelfth century to the present day; on Italian metrics and poetic forms or genres; and on literary or critical schools, periods, problems and movements. In addition there are specific entries on Italian Literature, Film and art, as well as feminism, post-modernism and other topics of contemporary interest.

Dante's Tenzone with Forese Donati

Autore: Fabian Alfie

Numero di pagine: 225

‘And by now, mind, it’s too late to redeem your debts by giving up guzzling.’ Dante's poetic correspondence (or tenzone) with Forese Donati, a relative of his wife, was rife with crude insults: the two men derided one another on topics ranging from sexual dysfunction and cowardice to poverty and thievery. But in his Commedia, rather than denying this correspondence, Dante repeatedly acknowledged and evoked the memory of his youthful put-downs. Dante's Tenzone with Forese Donati examines the lasting impact of these sonnets on Dante's writings and Italian literary culture, notably in the work of Giovanni Boccaccio. Fabian Alfie expands on derision as an ethical dimension of medieval literature, both facilitating the reprehension of vice and encouraging ongoing debates about the true nature of nobility. Outlining a broad perspective on the uses of literary insult, Dante's Tenzone with Forese Donati also provides an evocative glimpse of Dante's day-to-day life in the twelfth century.

Countercurrents

Autore: Raymond Adolph Prier

Numero di pagine: 316

In their readings of texts, the authors address the topics of theory, narrative, aesthetics, the idea of the text, and of specific moments in cultural history. The chapters cover a range of authors: Plato, Ovid, Dante, Petrarch, Chariteo, Ariosto, Tasso, Cervantes, Kleist, Gode, Edith Wharton, Pirandello, Kafka, Sartre, Saint-John Perse, Paz, Roubaud, Sanguineti, and Tomlinson. They also deal with philosophers: Peirce, Nietzsche, Saussure, Husserl, Marc Bloch, Lucien Febvre, Heidegger, Jakobson, Sartre, Lévi-Strauss, Barthes, Derrida, Foucault, Lacan, Lyotard, and Deleuze. The book opens up our relationships to the past and the usefulness or otherwise of the metaphors we use in our attempt to understand and participate in it. Although Countercurrents deals diversely with literary periods, authors, and critics, it speaks within the civilized and civilizing universe of our language and the texts we create. Running beneath the antihumanistic flotilla that skims the surface of texts for theory, the authors plumb for treasures from the ocean's floor.

Blindness and Therapy in Late Medieval French and Italian Poetry

Autore: Julie Singer

Numero di pagine: 251

An examination of the ways in which late medieval lyric poetry can be seen to engage with contemporary medical theory. This book argues that late medieval love poets, from Petrarch to Machaut and Charles d'Orléans, exploit scientific models as a broad framework within which to redefine the limits of the lyric subject and his body. Just as humoraltheory depends upon principles of likes and contraries in order to heal, poetry makes possible a parallel therapeutic system in which verbal oppositions and substitutions counter or rewrite received medical wisdom. The specific case of blindness, a disability that according to the theories of love that predominated in the late medieval West foreclosed the possibility of love, serves as a laboratory in which to explore poets' circumvention of the logical limits of contemporary medical theory. Reclaiming the power of remedy from physicians, these late medieval French and Italian poets prompt us to rethink not only the relationship between scientific and literary authority at the close of the middle ages, but, more broadly speaking, the very notion of therapy. Julie Singer is Assistant Professor of French at Washington University, St Louis.

The Carole: A Study of a Medieval Dance

Autore: Robert Mullally

Numero di pagine: 173

The carole was the principal social dance in France and England from c. 1100 to c. 1400 and was frequently mentioned in French and English medieval literature. However, it has been widely misunderstood by contributors in recent citations in dictionaries and reference books, both linguistic and musical. The carole was performed by all classes of society - kings and nobles, shepherds and servant girls. It is described as taking place both indoors and outdoors. Its central position in the life of the people is underlined by references not only in what we might call fictional texts, but also in historical (or quasi-historical) writings, in moral treatises and even in a work on astronomy. Dr Robert Mullally's focus is very much on details relevant to the history, choreography and performance of the dance as revealed in the primary sources. This methodology involves attempting to isolate the term carole from other dance terms not only in French, but also in other languages. Mullally's groundbreaking study establishes all the characteristics of this dance: etymological, choreographical, lyrical, musical and iconographical.

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