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Le Roman de la Manekine
Le Roman de la Manekine marks the beginning of its author's literary career. Philippe de Remi, on whom much attention has focused in the last two decades, was an unusual figure: a 13th-century land-holder and professional administrator who loved literature and who produced a large and varied corpus of narrative and lyric. Here is presented for the first time since 1884 a scholarly edition of Philippe's first romance, a tale centering on a heroine of great courage and integrity who passes through many trials without losing hope. The text is accompanied by a line-by-line English version, and by extensive commentary touching on the author, his milieu, and the literary context and major themes of the romance. Studies of the manuscript (Paris BNF fr 1588), its illustrations (all of them reproduced), and its history, have been provided by Alison Stones and Roger Middleton. The volume should be of interest to specialists in medieval French literature, to general readers who find English translations useful, and to scholars in the fields of medieval art and manuscript history.
One Life
This book is an account of high points in the long career of this eighty-six-year-old international sociologist: his youth in Milwaukee; forty-three years as a professor at universities in Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, Florida, and Maryland; lectures and consultations in the United States and Europe; solo violinist, chamber-music performer, and symphony-orchestra member; and twenty-seven books and hundreds of journal articles on topics such as leisure, the arts, and gerontology. Primarily, this volume presents a general narration of the author's long career as a sociologist as it touched on the increasing interaction between the American university and the larger society through consultations, basic research, writings, workshops, and so on.
Medieval Considerations of Incest, Marriage, and Penance
Medieval Considerations of Incest, Marriage, and Penance focuses on the incest motif as used in numerous medieval narratives. Explaining the weakness of great rulers, such as Charlemagne, or the fall of legendary heroes, such as Arthur, incest stories also reflect on changes to the sacramental regulations and practices related to marriage and penance. Such changes demonstrate the Church's increasing authority over the daily lives and relationships of the laity. Treated here are a wide variety of medieval texts, using as a central reference point Philippe de Rémi's thirteenth-century La Manekine, which presents one lay author's reflections on the role of consent in marriage, the nature of contrition and forgiveness, and even the meaning of relics. Studying a variety of genres including medieval romance, epic, miracles, and drama along with modern memoirs, films, and novels, Linda Rouillard emphasizes connections between medieval and modern social concerns. Rouillard concludes with a consideration of the legacy of the incest motif for the twenty-first century, including survivor narratives, and new incest anxieties associated with assisted reproductive technology.
The Refrain and the Rise of the Vernacular in Medieval French Music and Poetry
A survey of the use of the refrain in thirteenth and fourteenth-century French music and poetry, showing how it was skilfully deployed to assert the validity of the vernacular. The relationship between song quotation and the elevation of French as a literary language that could challenge the cultural authority of Latin is the focus of this book. It approaches this phenomenon through a close examination of the refrain, a short phrase of music and text quoted intertextually across thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century musical and poetic genres. The author draws on a wide range of case studies, from motets, trouvère song, plays, romance, vernacular translations, and proverb collections, to ...
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Aging and Demographic Change in Canadian Context
Contributors question whether an aging society is necessarily inferior or problematic compared with the recent past, cautioning that exaggerated concerns about population aging can be harmful to rational policy making.
Poetry and Music in Medieval France
This book, first published in 2003, examines the relationship between poetry and music in medieval France.
D'amour et de haine
Ils n’ont rien en commun... Mais ils vont se marier ! Les roses de la passion Fleuriste, elle sublime les mariages. Avocat, il plaide en faveur du divorce. Tout sépare Holly de Zack. Du moins, jusqu’à ce qu’ils soient déclarés fiancés. Dès lors, Holly décide de se prêter au jeu. Mais elle a beau lutter contre le désir, elle sent peu à peu ses résolutions vaciller. Au point qu’elle oublie soudain qu’il ne s’agit entre eux que d’une comédie... Envoûtante proximité Sabrina est ravie d'être à Venise. Cette escapade lui permet d’échapper à la grisaille londonienne, et surtout à Max. Du moins le croit-elle, car son ennemi de toujours débarque soudain dans son hôtel. Et l’établissement affichant complet, ils découvrent qu’ils vont devoir faire chambre commune. Une situation d’autant plus impensable que tous deux ont échangé un baiser trois semaines plus tôt. Aussi torride qu’inoubliable... Romans réédités
