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Joan of Arc
Louis Petit de Julleville's study of Joan of Arc is a comprehensive and engaging biography of the teenage warrior who helped change the fortunes of France during the Hundred Years' War. It's an essential read for anyone interested in medieval history or the role of women in war. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Histoire de la Langue Et de la Litterature Francaise
A quelle epoque naquit en France la litterature ? Est-elle aussi ancienne que la langue ? Quelle est l'origine de la langue francaise ? Voici l'histoire generale de la litterature et de la langue francaise concue sur une grande echelle pour repondre a ces questions. Langue et litterature sont deux choses separees et distinctes. Un peuple ne saurait se passer de langue; mais il peut fort bien exister sans litterature; et tous les peuples commencent meme par s'en passer. Les Romains ont ete puissants et redoutes avant d'avoir seulement l'idee de la litterature. Tant que les hommes parlent, ou meme ecrivent, seulement pour communiquer leurs idees et se faire entendre, leur langue n'a rien, pour cela, de litteraire. Des qu'ils desirent plaire et toucher, non seulement par les choses qu'ils disent, mais par la maniere dont ils les disent, des qu'un sentiment d'art, si simple qu'il soit, se mele a la parole et a l'ecriture, la litterature existe. (Louis Petit de Julleville)
Les mystères
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Cyclic Form and the English Mystery Plays
Cyclic Form and the English Mystery Plays is centred upon the five extant English mystery cycles with a view to examining the cyclic form they share. It is based upon consideration of the differences between the texts and upon the underlying assumptions governing this dramatic form. The cycles are extensively compared with practices in the cyclic dramas of France, the German-speaking areas, Italy, the Netherlands, and Spain in the late middle ages and the early modern period. There is also a unique and innovative bridging with iconographical material from a range of artistic modes giving further insight into the structure and organisation of cyclic form. Cyclic Form and the English Mystery Plays should be of interest to undergraduate students and to more experienced researchers in the early drama and the study of visual images and artefacts.
Laughing Matters
Bawdy satirical plays—many starring law clerks and seminarians—savaged corrupt officials and royal policies in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century France. The Church and the royal court tolerated—and even commissioned—such performances, the audiences for which included men and women from every social class. From the mid-sixteenth century, however, local authorities began to temper and in some cases ban such performances. Sara Beam, in revealing how theater and politics were intimately intertwined, shows how the topics we joke about in public reflect and shape larger religious and political developments. For Beam, the eclipse of the vital tradition of satirical farce in late medieval and...
Farce and Farcical Elements
Farcical elements were incorporated into non-comic drama ever since the theatre had been rediscovered in the Middle Ages. Already at a very early stage, comic scenes proved to be popular additions to liturgical music drama and, later, to religious plays in the vernacular. Some scholars believe that the genre of farce developed out of these farcical elements. The suggestion was made that farces, similar to the stuffing of meat or poultry, had been added to plays to increase audience involvement. Other researchers see quite different origins for the farce. The present volume does not aspire to solve the question of the relationship between the two types of “comedy” on the medieval stages but its editors hope that it will nevertheless contribute to this discussion. In addition, it will enable its readers to form an impression of the huge variety of the comic in the vast area of medieval and early Renaissance theatre and drama.
The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity
This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the Madonna in the crypt; he is saved when the statue, delighted by his skill, miraculously comes to life. Jan Ziolkowski tracks the poem from its medieval roots to its rediscovery in late nineteenth-century Paris, before its translation into English in Britain and the United States. The visual influence of...
