studies in Medieval French literature in honor of William W. Kibler
Published:
2012
Publisher:
Editions Rodopi, Amsterdam
Includes bibliographical references William W. Kibler is one of the most productive and versatile medievalists of his generation. Some scholars and students think of him primarily as a specialist in the medieval epic, whereas others consider him to...
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Includes bibliographical references William W. Kibler is one of the most productive and versatile medievalists of his generation. Some scholars and students think of him primarily as a specialist in the medieval epic, whereas others consider him to be an Arthurian scholar. He is of course both, but he is also much more: a consummate philologist and editor of texts and also a prolific and accomplished translator. Above all, those who know him best know him as an extraordinarily generous and modest man. The present volume represents an effort by thirty medievalists, specialists in fields as diverse as William Kibler?s interests, t
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword: William W. Kibler: Scholar, Teacher, Friend; Publications by William W. Kibler; Tabula Gratulatoria; Once and Future Monuments:Knights' and Lovers' Tombs in Medieval French Romance; Herman de Valenciennes and the Invention of Pious Epic; The Twelve Peers: Charlemagne's Elite Combatantsin the Song of Roland; Text and Image in the Getty Tundale; A French Legacy in Scotland: Arthurian Romance; Tentative de réhabilitation d'un manuscrit mal faméd'Erec et Enide: Chantilly, Musée Condé 472 (A)
Beginnings and Endings: The Frontiers of the Textin the Prose Joseph d'ArimathieAnomalous Rhyme Sequences in the Venice-Four Roland; Turoldus, Scribe or Author?Evidence from the Corpus of Chansons de Geste; Audience Expectations and Unexpected Developmentsin Marie de France's Le Laüstic; Traits novateurs, initiatives, intuitions et sailliesd'Alfred Delvau dans sa réécriture d'Ogier le Danois; On the Art of the Laisse in the Charroi de Nîmes:Laisses XXIX-XXXII; Isidorus anglo-normannice; Of Giants and Griffons:Narrative and Lineal Disruptions in Gaufrey
Le Drame de Roncevaux:De La Chanson de Roland à la "chanson d'aventures"La Divination dans lesChansons de Geste franco-italiennes du XIVe siècle; The "Lai de Joie" as Intertext inChrétien de Troyes's Erec et Enide; Wearing Hearts on Sleeves:Clothes and Pathos in Chrétien and Marie;
Labyrinth and Maze: The Shapes of Arthurian RomanceMelion and Bisclavret:The Presence and Absence of Arthur; Étymologie et légendes toponymiques dansl'épopée médiévale et dans la tradition orale moderne; The Three Godfreys and the Old French Crusade Cycle; War is Hell (for Saracens):A Footnote to Aspremont's Afterlife in Italy; Anomaly and Ambiguity in Marie de France's Fresne; The Sultan's Salutz in the Continuation ofPartonopeu de Blois; Translating the Prose Lancelot; Image, Text, Life:La Vie de Saint Gilles and Charlemagne; La Fille du comte de Ponthieu:transgression, parole et silence
