Parisian confraternity drama of the fourteenth century : the Miracles de Nostre Dame par personnages / edited by Donald Maddox and Sara Sturm-Maddox.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Maddox, Donald.

Sturm-Maddox, Sara.

Series:

Medieval texts and cultures of Northern Europe ; 22.

Medieval texts and cultures of Northern Europe ; 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--In literature.

Mary.

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint.

Miracles de Nostre Dame par personnages.

French drama--To 1500--History and criticism.

French drama.

Christian drama, French--History and criticism.

Christian drama, French.

Social problems in literature.

France--Social conditions--987-1515.

France.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

x, 254 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

Parisian confraternity drama of the 14th century

Place of Publication:

Turnhout : Brepols, 2008.

Summary:

Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe is a series which opens up a dedicated forum for comparative work on northern European medieval literature, history and society and their significance in the modern world, It promotes dialogue between anglophone and continental medievalists, and addresses the need for transcultural perspectives on Europe's medieval origins in a way that is distinctive both in scope and academic orientation. The focus is on the medieval texts and cultures of the British Isles, northern and central mainland Europe, and Scandinavia. The chronological range of the series is from c. 800 AD to c. 1600 AD. Each volume makes available to an international readership excellent new work, offering ways of reading rexts, cultures and institutions that speak to the contemporary world.

Parisian Confrathernity Drama of the Fourteenth Century

The 'Miracles de Nostre Dame par personnages'

Parisian Confraternity Drama of the Fourteenth Century is the first volume of studies devoted solely to the Miracles de Nostre Dame par personnages. These anonymous plays, found in a single luxury manuscript, comprise the only major corpus of dramatic works in French that have survived from the fourteenth century. They derive from a rich diversity of sources narrative miracle accounts, saints’ lives, epic chansons de geste, vernacular romances, and history. Each play is preceded by a richly detailed miniature, some two dozen include a sermon in prose, and each includes at least one rondel to be sung by the cortege accompanying the Virgin. They constitute both a collective demonstration of the fervent late medieval devotion to the Virgin, and a substantial archive of contemporary insights into the issues of power, authority, and influence that struggled for dominance in fourteenth-century Paris. As this extraordinary collection has, in its entirety, attracted little critical attention to date, this volume will be of significant interest to scholars wishing to explore the plays in their literary context, as well as those interested in medieval drama the Marian tradition, and the role of confraternities in fourteenth-century French culture.

Contents:

Introduction. French Drama of the Fourteenth Century: The Miracles de Nostre Dame par personnages / Donald Maddox, Sara Sturm-Maddox 1

Medieval Trade Guilds and the Miracles de Nostre Dame par personages [reprinted from Medium AEvum, 39 (1970), 257-87] / Graham A. Runnalls 29

The Miracles de Nostre Dame par personnages and the Legacy of Gautier de Coinci / Olivier Collet 67

The Serventois in the Miracles de Nostre Dame par personnages: The Ways of Imitation / Samuel N. Rosenberg 87

The Dramatization of the Persecuted Heroine in the Miracles de Nostre Dame par personages / Kathy M. Krause 113

The Pregnant Abbesses of Paris and Lille / Alan E. Knight 135

Vice and Virtue in the Miracles de Nostre Dame par personages / Carol J. Harvey 149

The Virgin's Mediation: Evolution and Transformation of the Morif / Pierre Kunstmann 163

Ending and the Ends of the Collection: The Miracle de saint Alexis / Donald Maddox 179

'Visible Words': Gesure and Performance in the Miniatures of BNF, MS fr. 819-820 / Robert L. A. Clark, Pamela Sheingorn 193

The Miracles de Nostre Dame par personnages: Decadent Dramas? / Robert L. A. Clark 219.

Notes:

"Most of the essays ... are revised contributions to the first international colloquium devoted entirely to the forty plays in the 'Miracles de Nostre Dame par personnages' contained in the Cangé Manuscript (Paris, Bibliothèque national de France, MS français 819-820."---Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9782503528526

250352852X

OCLC:

234304209