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Changing from OV to VO: More evidence from Old French

Medievalists.net — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 01:27:10 +0000

One of the more obvious syntactic changes in the development of the Romance languages involved a switch in basic word order from the Latin SOV to the Romance SVO, a change still underway in early Old Romance. I

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Nicolette : action transvestite, or, who and what is the heroine of Aucassin et Nicolette?

Medievalists.net — Sun, 24 Aug 2014 11:13:20 +0000

In this paper, I will show how Nicolette is constantly, deliberately, changing, in appearance and identity, from the beginning of the story, and how she is thus Izzard's action transvestite.

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Caught in Love’s Grip: Passion and Moral Agency in French Courtly Romance

Medievalists.net — Tue, 12 Aug 2014 10:06:35 +0000

French royal courts in the late twelfth century were absolutely smitten with love. Troubadaours traveled from place to place reciting stories of knights and the ladies they wooed.

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Worldly Unease in Late Medieval European Travel Reports

Medievalists.net — Sat, 11 Jan 2014 15:03:42 +0000

Comparing the Book of John Mandeville with Jean de Jeanville's Vie Saint Louis and William of Rubruck's Journey, this chapter argues that cosmopolitan perspectives in these texts seem to emerge in spite of rather than because of their contacts with other cultures.

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Cheating and Cheaters in German Romance and Epic, 1180 – 1225

Medievalists.net — Tue, 31 Dec 2013 10:18:50 +0000

An Alsatian poet named Heinrich, writing around 1180, composed a beast epic, based on French sources, about a trickster fox named Reinhart. Some sixty years later, a poet known to us only as Der Stricker composed a work of similar length and structure, about a trickster priest named Amis, and his diligent efforts to cheat various anonymous individuals out of their money.

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Losing the null subject : a contrastive study of (Brazilian) Portuguese and (Medieval) French

Medievalists.net — Mon, 30 Dec 2013 18:17:51 +0000

This paper deals with the development and the use of subject pronouns in Portuguese and discusses the question of whether or not Brazilian Portuguese is a language which is losing its null subject property or which has already lost it

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Impregnable friendship : locating desire in the middle English ‘Amis and Amiloun’

Medievalists.net — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 17:37:54 +0000

Scholarship on Amis and Amiloun has generally been divided into two critical schools. The majority of critics have read the work as an exemplar of perfect friendship, overlooking (or ignoring) any trace of homoeroticism, citing the possibility itself as anachronistic, or explaining away its presence by offering historical or theoretical justification for intimacy among medieval men.

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The Legend of the Purgatory of Saint Patrick: From Ireland to Dante and Beyond

Medievalists.net — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 13:21:27 +0000

“Yes by Saint Patrick .... Touching this vision here It is an honest ghost, that let me tell you” (Hamlet, Act I, Scene 5)

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Women in Troubadour Song: Of the Comtessa and the Vilana

Medievalists.net — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 19:19:53 +0000

Since we have melodies for both songs, the question of what “feminine” voices we are hearing is a musi- cal as well as a poetic issue.

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The Evolution of the Saladin Legend in the West

Medievalists.net — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 02:45:17 +0000

William of Tyreʼs account of the history of the Crusades stops suddenly in 1184. As he lays down his pen he is in despair at the inevitable outcome which he foresees for the struggle with Saladin. It was fortunate for him that he did not live to see the triumph of Saladin at Hattin and Jerusalem. Williamʼs judgement of Saladin, there- fore, is one of fear and admiration but he is also able to criticize his faults, especially his ruthless ambition.

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