The medieval imagination : mirabile dictu : essays in honour of Yolande de Pontfarcy Sexton / Phyllis Gaffney and Jean-Michel Picard, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gaffney, Phyllis, editor.

Picard, Jean-Michel, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Miracles in literature.

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.

Literature, Medieval.

Middle Ages.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

214 pages : map, portrait ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Dublin, Ireland ; Portland, OR : Four Courts Press, [2012]

Summary:

Medievalists and scholars of mostly French literature, many of them retired from active teaching now, explore mythic dimensions of the cultures, histories, and literatures of the medieval west. Among the offerings is a new edition and translation of the lay of Espervier (Sparrowhawk) with full scholarly paraphernalia. Another 11 explore such topics as youthful automata in three Old French poems, some literary devices in the Vie des Pères, Petrarch and the myth of Daedalus, uses and abuses of foundation legends as exemplified by Evesham Abbey, and St. Patrick's purgatory in French traveler accounts from the early modern period onwards. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

The lay of Espervier / edited by Glyn S. Burgess

Roland, Olivier and the strangeness of words / Joseph Long

When the wind blows : youthful automata in three Old French poems / Phyllis Gaffney

Court and cloister : some literary devices in the Vie des Pères / Tony Hunt

Un homologue du "morceau du champion" en ancien français / Richard Glyn Roberts & Jenny Rowland

"Con freno e con isproni" : equine imagery in Dante / John C. Barnes

Petrarch and the myth of Daedalus / Jennifer Petrie

Ticfa didiu rí aili foræ : prophecy, sovereignty narratives and medieval Irish historiography / Kevin Murray

Uses and abuses of foundation legends : the case of Evesham Abbey / Howard B. Clarke

The methodical and the marvellous in the description of Paris by Guillebert de Mets (1434) / Evelyn Mullally

Le merveilleux et l'espace européen : l'Irlande et les Irlandais dans la littérature médiévale française (XIIe-XVe siècles) / Éamon Ó Ciosáin

Le faubourg du purgatoire? St. Patrick's Purgatory in French traveller accounts from the early modern period onwards / Grace Neville.

Notes:

"List of publications by Yolande de Pontfarcy": pages 7-9.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781846823282

1846823285

OCLC:

775416199