Gautier de Coinci : miracles, music, and manuscripts / edited by Kathy M. Krause and Alison Stones.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Krause, Kathy M., 1962-

Stones, Alison.

Series:

Medieval texts and cultures of Northern Europe ; v. 13.

Medieval texts and cultures of Northern Europe ; v. 13

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Gautier, de Coinci, 1177?-1236. Miracles de Nostre Dame.

Gautier.

Gautier, de Coinci, 1177?-1236--Manuscripts.

Gautier, de Coinci, 1177?-1236.

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint.

Manuscripts.

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--In literature.

Mary.

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Songs and music.

Part songs, French.

Manuscripts, French.

History.

Manuscripts, Medieval--France.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

France.

Manuscripts, French--History--To 1500.

Part songs, French--500-1400--History and criticism.

Genre:

Songs and music.

Physical Description:

xx, 486 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout : Brepols, 2006.

Language Note:

Some texts in French.

Summary:

Gautier de Coinci (c. 1177-1236) was a Benedictine prior, a poet and composer, and the author of several very popular religious works, including a large collection of Miracles of the Virgin in French, which enjoyed a wide circulation during the Middle Ages. Gautier drew on multiple Latin sources for his work, embellishing and personalizing them as he adapted them to his poetic design. Conceiving of his collection of miracles as a complete work, Gautier carefully organized the tales into two books, framing each with authorial exordia and lyrics praising the Virgin. In addition to its obvious literary interest, the subsequent manuscript tradition offers a remarkable panorama of medieval manuscript production, in particular due to the fascinating combination of text, music and illustration. Bringing together a select group of scholars from multiple disciplines (including art history, musicology, and literary studies), this collection of essays explores complementary aspects of Gautier, his works, and his manuscripts. The volume offers both breadth and depth in its examination of Gautier de Coinci and his Miracles de Nostre Dame. It promises to redefine Gautier studies through its interdisciplinary consideration of the varied facets of his work as it makes available to scholars and students the first interdisciplinary examination of this key figure in medieval vernacular religious culture.

Contents:

List of Musical Figures xiii

Introduction. Gautier de Coinci, Miracles de Nostra Dame: Texts and Manuscripts / Ardis Butterfield 1

Manuscripts

L'OEuvre en contexte: la place de Gautier de Coinci dans les recueils cycliques des Miracles de Nostre Dame / Olivier Collet 21

Minstrel's Mantle and Monk's Hood: The Authorial Persona of Gautier de Coinci in his Poetry and Illuminations / Kathryn A. Duys 37

Notes on the Artistic Context of Some Gautier de Coinci Manuscripts / Alison Stones 65

L'Annominatio chez Gautier: vocabulaire et syntaxe / Pierre Kunstmann 101

Gautier's Wordplay as Devotional Ecstasy / Robert L.A. Clark 113

Gautier de Coinci est-il un compositeur? / Frederic Billiet 127

L'Interpretation musicale du Cycle de Sainte Leocade / Claire Chamiye Couderc 149

From Auxerre to Soissons: The Earliest History of the Responsory Gaude, Maria Virgo in Gautier de Coinci's Miracles de Nostre Dame / Barbara Haggh 167

Figures and Types

Gautier de Coinci and Medieval Childbirth Miracles / Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski 197

Histoire poetique du peche: de quelques figures litteraires de la faute dans les Miracles de Nostre Dame de Gautier de Coinci / Yasmina Foehr-Janssens 215

Gazing on Women in the Miracles de Nostre Dame / Kathy M. Krause 227

Images of the Virgin Mary in the Soissons Manuscript (Paris, BNF, nouv. acq. fr. 24541) / Nancy Black 253

Contexts

The Rose, the Blessed Virgin Undefiled: Incarnational Piety in Gautier's Miracles de Nostre Dame / Laurel Broughton 281

Telling the Same Tale? Gautier de Coinci's Miracles de Nostre Dame and the First Vie des Peres / Adrian P. Tudor 301

Or escoutez une merveille! Parallel Paths: Gautier de Coinci and the Fabliaux / Brian J. Levy 331

I Gautier de Coinci's Miracles de Nostre Dame: Manuscript List / Kathryn A. Duys, Kathy M. Krause, Alison Stones 345

II Manuscripts that Preserve the Songs of Gautier de Coinci's Miracles de Nostre Dame Listed by Date and Sigla / Kathryn A. Duys 367

III Illustrated Miracles de Nostre Dame Manuscripts Listed by Sigla / Alison Stones 369

IV Illustrated Miracles de Nostre Dame Manuscripts Listed by Stylistic Attribution and Attributable Manuscripts Whose MND Selection is Unillustrated / Alison Stones 373

V The Prayer of Theophilus, II Priere 37 / Alison Stones 397

VI Owners of Miracles de Nostre Dame Manuscripts / Alison Stones 407

Select Bibliography: Gautier de Coinci and the Miracles de Nostre Dame 443.

Notes:

"The idea for this volume arose around the manuscripts in Paris and took shape in a conference held at the University of Pittsburgh jointly sponsored and organized by Alison Stones ... and Kathy Krause ... "--Preface and Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

250352060X

9782503520605

OCLC:

80332873