Table Of ContentRewriting Medieval French Literature
Rewriting
Medieval French
Literature
Studies in Honour of Jane H. M. Taylor
Edited by
Leah Tether and Keith Busby
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Table of Contents
List of Contributors VII
List of Illustrations XI
Jessica Taylor
Foreword: Jane H. M. Taylor XIII
Keith Busby and Leah Tether
Introduction: Rewriting Medieval French Literature 1
Logan E. Whalen
The Legacy of the Guillaume d’Orange Cycle: Rewriting the Charroi de Nîmes,
the Couronnement de Louis, and the Prise d’Orange 9
Mireille Séguy
Back to the Future: The Conte du Graal and the First Continuation in the light
of the Elucidation and the Bliocadran 31
Christine Ferlampin-Acher
Artus de Bretagne, An “Extensional” Romance: Comparing Ysaïe le Triste,
Perceforest, and Artus de Bretagne 53
Ad Putter
The Popularity of the Arthurian Romances of Chrétien de Troyes and the
Continuations in Medieval England and Scotland 85
Anne Salamon and Patrick Moran
The Chapel on the Borderland: Perlesvaus retold by Fouke Fitz Warin 107
Keith Busby
Jofroi de Waterford Rewrites Troy and Rome 125
Nathalie Koble
Gifts Given and Received: The Roman de la Dame à la Licorne et du Beau
Chevalier, a multimedia present 141
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Bart Besamusca and Frank Brandsma
What Makes a Narrative Cycle Work? The example of the Burgsteinfurt
manuscript 157
Richard Trachsler
From Verse to Prose, a Matter of Size? Length and lacunae in French mises
en prose 181
Carol J. Chase
Retouching the Hero’s Portrait in the Burgundian Prose Erec: The significance
of the insignificant 193
Maria Colombo Timelli
All Around the “Table”, or How to Read Galien Rethoré (Antoine Vérard,
1500) 213
Laura Chuhan Campbell and Leah Tether
Printers’ Prefaces and Rewriting in Arthurian Romance 235
Joan Tasker Grimbert
Passionate Friendship in Pierre Sala’s Chevalier au lion (Yvain, Lunete, and
the Lion) 261
Jean-Claude Mühlethaler
From Rewriting to Recycling: Medieval material in Pierre Sala and Jeanne
Flore 281
Michelle Szkilnik
Guinglain in Arcadia 299
Thomas Hinton
Rewriting Renart: Medieval obscenity for modern children 315
Elizabeth Archibald
Afterword 339
Index 341
List of Contributors
ElizabethArchibaldisProfessorofEnglishStudiesandPrincipalofStCuthbert’sSocietyat
DurhamUniversity.SheistheauthorofApolloniusofTyre:MedievalandRenaissanceVaria-
tions(1991)andIncestandtheMedievalImagination(2001),andtheco-editorofACompan-
iontoMalorywithA.S.G.Edwards(1996),andTheCambridgeCompaniontotheArthurian
LegendwithAdPutter(2009).
BartBesamuscaisProfessorofMiddleDutchTextualCulturefromanInternationalPerspec-
tiveintheUtrechtCentreforMedievalStudiesatUtrechtUniversity.Hehaspublishedwidely
onmedievalnarrativeliterature,manuscriptsandearlyprintededitions,andmanagesthere-
searchtoolArthurianFictioninMedievalEurope(www.arthurianfiction.org).Heiscurrentlydi-
rectingtheresearchproject“TheMultilingualDynamicsoftheLiteraryCultureofMedieval
Flanders,c.1200–c.1500”.
FrankBrandsmaisAssociateProfessorinComparativeLiterature(MiddleAges)atUtrechtUni-
versityandtheUtrechtCentreforMedievalStudies.Hisresearchfocusesonnarrativetechni-
queandaudienceinArthurianromance,especiallyonthepresentationandsharingofemo-
tions.WithCarolyneLarringtonandCorinneSaunders,heeditedEmotionsinMedieval
ArthurianLiterature(2015).
KeithBusbyisDouglasKellyProfessorofMedievalFrenchEmeritusattheUniversityofWis-
consin-Madison.HehaspublishednumerousbooksandarticlesonMedievalFrenchLitera-
ture.HismostrecentbooksareFrenchinMedievalIreland,IrelandinMedievalFrench:The
ParadoxofTwoWorlds(2017)andTheFrenchWorksofJofroideWaterford(2020).
CarolJ.ChaseisProfessorEmeritaofModernLanguagesandLiteraturesatKnoxCollege.Her
researchfocusesonArthurianliterature;herinterestsincludenarrativetechnique,textand
image,andmanuscriptwork.Shehaspublishednumerousarticlesonthethirteenth-century
EstoiredelSaintGraalandthefifteenth-centuryBurgundianproseErec;shehasalsotrans-
latedbothtextsintomodernEnglish.ShehasalsopublishedstudiesontheproseLancelot.
LauraChuhanCampbellisAssistantProfessorinTranslationStudiesandFrenchatDurham
University.Herresearchfocusesprimarilyontranslationandrewritinginmedievalliterature,
particularlyFrenchandItalianculturalexchanges,aswellasGenderStudiesandEcocriti-
cism.SheistheauthorofTheMedievalMerlinTraditioninFranceandItaly:Prophecy,Para-
dox,andTranslatio(2017)andco-authorofTheBristolMerlin(2021).
MariaColomboTimelliisProfessoroftheHistoryoftheFrenchLanguageandMedieval
FrenchLiteratureatUniversitàdegliStudidiMilano.AspecialistinMiddleFrench,shehas
publishedmanystudiesandcriticaleditionsofworksfromthefifteenthandsixteenthcentu-
ries,withaparticularemphasisonmisesenprose.
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ChristineFerlampin-AcherisProfessorattheUniversitéRennes2andaseniormemberof
theInstitutUniversitairedeFrance.Herresearchmostlyfocusesonlate-medievalFrenchAr-
thuriantexts,suchasPerceforestandArtusdeBretagne.SheistheeditorofArtusdeBre-
tagne(2017).
JoanTaskerGrimbertisProfessorEmeritaofFrenchandMedievalStudiesattheCatholicUni-
versityofAmerica.HerresearchfocusesprimarilyonArthurianliteratureandfilm.Herbooks
includeYvaindanslemirroir:unepoétiquedelaréflexiondansleChevalierauliondeChré-
tiendeTroyes(1988),TristanandIsolde:ACasebook(1995),ACompaniontoChrétiende
Troyes(2005)withco-editorNorrisJ.Lacy,andChrétiendeTroyesinProse:TheBurgundian
ErecandCligés(2011)withco-translatorCarolJ.Chase.
ThomasHintonisSeniorLecturerinFrenchattheUniversityofExeter.Hispublicationsin-
cludeTheConteduGraalCycle:ChrétiendeTroyes’sPerceval,theContinuations,andFrench
ArthurianRomance(2012),andaspecialissueofthejournalFrenchStudiesonthemedieval
libraryco-editedwithLukeSunderland(2016).HehasalsopublishedonArthurianliterature,
Occitanlovelyric,andmedievalmultilingualism,especiallyAnglo-French.
NathalieKobleisMaîtressedeConférencesattheÉcoleNormaleSupérieureandtheÉcole
Polytechnique(Palaiseau)inParis,wheresheteachesmedievallanguageandliterature.Her
researchfocusesoncourtlyliterature,aswellasthememoryoftheMiddleAgesincontem-
poraryartandliterature.AmongsthermostrecentpublicationsareLesSuitesduromande
Merlinenprose:desromansdelecteurs(2020),LeRomandelaDameàlaLicorneetdu
BeauChevalierauLion(2021),andDécamérez!DesnouvellesdeBoccace(2021).
PatrickMoranisAssociateProfessorofMedievalFrenchLiteratureattheUniversityofBritish
Columbia.HisresearchmainlyfocusesonArthurianliterature,cyclicity,andmedieval
thought.HeistheauthorofLecturescycliques:leréseauinter-romanesquedanslescycles
duGraalduXIIIesiècle(2014).
Jean-ClaudeMühletahlerisProfessorEmeritusattheUniversitédeLausanne(Switzerland).
HehaseditedandtranslatedthepoetryofCharlesd’OrléansandFrançoisVillon;recently,he
publishedatranslationoftheQuinzeJoiesdemariage(ed.JeanRychner).Hispublications
includestudiesandarticlesonsatire,parody(L’Ecrivainfaceauxpuissants,2019),andcourt-
lypoetryinmanuscriptandprintculture.Otherareasofinterestaretherelationshipbetween
FrenchandItalianculture,food,andliterature,andthereceptionofAntiquityfromtheMiddle
Agestomoderntimes(Enéelemal-aimé,2016).
AdPutterisProfessorofMedievalEnglishLiteratureattheUniversityofBristol.Hehaswrit-
tenvariousbooksontheGawain-poetandonverseform.WithElizabethArchibaldhehas
editedTheCambridgeCompaniontotheArthurianLegend(2009)andwithMyraStokesthe
PenguineditionofTheWorksoftheGawainPoet(2014).
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AnneSalamonisAssistantProfessorofRomancePhilologyattheUniversityofBritishColum-
bia.Herresearchfocusesprimarilyonfifteenth-centuryliterature,fromthepointofviewof
ecdotics,codicology,andmaterialphilology.Hermainareaofexpertiseisuniversalchroni-
cles,compilations,andtranslations.SheeditedLeTraictiédesNeufPreuxbySébastienMa-
merot(2016).
MireilleSéguyisProfessorofMedievalLanguageandLiteratureattheUniversitédeParis
VIII‐Vincennes/Saint-Denis.Shehaspublishednumerousworksonthepathsofliteraryin-
ventioninthefictionsofthetwelfthandthirteenthcenturies,aswellasontherereadingof
medievalformsandimagesincontemporarycreationandcriticism,withaparticularinterest
inthetimeandmemoryofsuchworks.
MichelleSzkilnikisProfessorofMedievalLiteratureattheUniversitédeParisIII-Sorbonne
NouvelleandCo-DirectorofitsCentred’EtudesduMoyenÂge.Aspecialistofnarrativelitera-
ture,shehaspublishedarticlesandbooksaboutmedievalFrenchromancesfromthetwelfth
tothefifteenthcenturies.
JessicaTaylorisManagingDirectorofPRELOADED,aBAFTA-winninggamesstudio,workingin
immersivetechnologiesandconnectedplaywithorganisationssuchastheBBC,MagicLeap,
Google,LEGO.PriortoPRELOADED,asVP,ExperienceDesignatAntennaInternational,she
workedwithclientssuchasMoMA,Tate,theVatican,theRoyalCollection,andtheSagrada
Familia.JessicaalsospenttenyearsasaTVproducer/director,makingfilmsaboutthearts,
history,andscienceforinternationalbroadcasterssuchastheBBC,Discovery,theHistory
Channel,Channel4,andPBS.
LeahTetherisProfessorofMedievalLiteratureandPublishingattheUniversityofBristol.
SheistheauthorofTheContinuationsofChrétien’sPerceval:ContentandConstruction,Ex-
tensionandEnding(2012),PublishingtheGrailinMedievalandRenaissanceFrance(2017),
TheGeneralReaderandtheAcademy:MedievalFrenchLiteratureandPenguinClassics
(2019),andco-authorofTheBristolMerlin(2021).
RichardTrachslerisProfessorofMedievalFrenchandOccitanLiteratureattheUniversität
ZürichhavingpreviouslyheldpositionsattheUniversitiesofParisIV-SorbonneandGöttin-
gen.Hismaininterestliesinmedievalnarrativeliteratureandtextediting,onwhichhehas
publishedextensively.Hisinterestincriticaleditionshasledhimtoresearchingmanuscript
contexts,inparticularoffabliaux.Heiscurrentlyworking,withaninternationalteamofcol-
leagues,onaneweditionoftheOvideMoraliséandisco-directingacriticaleditionofthe
ArthurianGuironleCourtois-cycle.
LoganE.WhalenisProfessorofMedievalFrenchLiteratureattheUniversityofOklahoma.He
haspublishedtwobooksonMariedeFrance,MariedeFranceandthePoeticsofMemory
(2008),andACompaniontoMariedeFrance(2011).Hismostrecentlypublishedbookisa
co-translationwithCatherineM.JonesandWilliamW.Kibler,AnOldFrenchTrilogy:Texts
fromtheWilliamofOrangeCycle(2020).
