The court and cultural diversity : selected papers from the Eighth triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society, the Queen's University of Belfast, 26 July-1 August 1995

The expression of cultural differences in medieval courtly literature explored. Cultural differences in medieval European literary practice are reflected in many different ways, as this volume illustrates. The essays cover a whole range of courtly topics, in particular questions of context, genre and poetic voice. The five sections explore contexts for courtliness, especially the position of the vernacular poet at or near the court; the ways in which courtly values and political aspirations are reflected in the work of medieval chronicle and romance writers; questions of register, convention, gender, and narrative technique; problems of literary production and reception, particularly the transmission of courtly and quasi-courtly texts among widely differing medieval audiences; and broader issues such as the clues to the courtly mentality provided by peripheral narrative details, the blurring of conventional courtly boundaries, and the perennial fascination of tales with strong folklore or fabliau elements. Dr EVELYN MULLALLY and Dr JOHN THOMPSON are Senior Lecturers at the Queen's University of Belfast. Poet And Prince In Medieval Ireland / Gearoid Mac Eoin -- Court Poets And Historians In Late Medieval Connacht / Nollaig O Muraile -- Courtly Acculturation In The Lais And Fables Of Marie De France / Rupert T. Pickens -- Locating The Court: Socio-cultural Exchange In Jean Renart's L'escoufle / Francoise Le Saux -- Negative Self-promotion: The Troubadour Sirventes Joglaresc / Catherine Leglu -- Odd Man Out: Villon At Court / Barbara N. Sargent-baur -- Animating Medieval Court Satire / Ad Putter -- La Fin Des Chroniques De Froissart Et Le Tragique De La Cour / Michel Zink -- Domesticating Diversity: Female Founders In Medieval Genealogical Literature And La Fille Du Comte De Pontieu / Donald Maddox -- Dame Custance La Gentil: Gaimar's Portrait Of A Lady And Her Books / Jean Blacker -- Alterity And Subjectivity In The Roman De Mélusine / Sara Strum-maddox -- Passelion, Marc L'essilié Et L'idéal Courtois / Michelle Szkilnik -- The Political Songs In The Chronicles Of Pierre De Langtoft And Robert Mannying / Thea Summerfield -- Romance After Bosworth / Helen Cooper -- Courtliness In Some Fourteenth-century English Pastourelles / John Scattergood -- Amor In Marie De France's Equitan And Fresne: The Failure Of The Courtly Ideal / June Hall Mccash -- Secondary Characters In Equitan And Eliduc / Joan Brumlik -- The Optimistic Love-poet: Philippe De Beaumanoir / Leslie C. Brook -- The Lady Speaks: The Transformation Of French Courtly Poetry In The Fourteenth And Fifteenth Centuries / Maureen Boulton -- Nice Young Girls And Wicked Old Witches: The Rightful Age Of Women In Middle English Verse / Jessica Cooke -- Readers, Writers, And Lovers In Grimalte Y Gradissa / Diane M. Wright -- Shota Rustaveli And The Structure Of Courtly Love / G. Koolemans Beynen -- The Tournai Rose As A Secular And A Sacred Epithalamium / Lori J. Walters -- The Gesta Henrici Quinti And The Bedford Psalter-hours / Sylvia Wright -- Medieval Equivalents Of Quote-unquote: The Presentation Of Spoken Words In Courtly Romance / Frank Brandsma -- Courtly Romances In The Privy Wardrobe / Carter Revard -- John Shirley And The Emulation Of Courtly Culture / A.s.g. Edwards -- Richard Hill -- A London Compiler / Heather Collier -- Our Food, Foreign Foods: Food As A Cultural Delimiter In The Middle Ages / Terence Scully -- Courtly Cooking All'italiana: Gastronomical Approaches To Medieval Italian Literature / Christopher Kleinhenz -- The Outsider At Court, Or What Is So Strange About The Stranger? / William Macbain -- Pseudo -courtly Elements In A Canonical Epic / Sara I. James -- The Prodigal Knight, The Hungry Mother And The Triple Murder: Mirros And Marvels In The Dolopathos Dog Story -- Une Recluse Fort (peu) Courtoise: Destin D'une Anedocte Dans Le Roman Des Sept Sages / Yasmina Foehr-janssens -- Courtly Discourse And Folklore In La Manekine / Carol J. Harvey -- The First-person Narrator In The Middle Dutch Fabiiaux / Bart Besamusca -- The Diabolic Hero In Medieval French Narrative: Trubert And Wistasse Le Moine / Keith Busby. Edited By Evelyn Mullally, John Thompson. Includes Bibliographical References. x, 426 p. : 25 cm Includes bibliographical references