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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (3): 531–537.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Marisa Galvez [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2023 medieval literature inheritance mediality Old Occitan troubadours I started learning French as my first secondary language, having never learned...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (3): 325–342.
Published: 01 May 2010
... of Columbia University JENNIFER STAFFORD BROWN and only the briefest mention of the Middle Ages as a time period Aragon found "important and topical" (43). Even in Michel Murat's excellent analysis of rhyme in Aragon's wartime poetry, "Aragon, la rime et la nation," he concludes that medieval verse simply...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (1-2): 67–74.
Published: 01 January 2010
... of certain ideas of the Prague linguists; and Zumthor's later turn towards oral poetics and anthropology was much in the same vein. For Peter Haidu, making the Middle Ages modern meant the application of Ancient and medieval rhetorical thinking to vernacular literature in a series of books on Chretien de...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 192–203.
Published: 01 May 2020
... of passes and discontinuities.” An explicitly Latourian reading of the Divina Commedia has never struck me as so plausible, or so necessary. The fifth selection is Mary Franklin-Brown’s “Fugitive Figures: On the Modes of Existence of Medieval Automata,” which addresses the timely topic of automata...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 66–84.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., and the books that have transmitted medieval romances have suffered as much from the ravages of time as the mechanisms at Hesdin. Only within the fiction of the romance were the fictional automata “incorruptible” (Truitt 125), for the parchment leaves on which that fiction was preserved tore or acquired stains...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (1): 131–149.
Published: 01 May 2022
... her identity as a disabled woman and intellectual who seeks a way of being insubordinate and, at the same time, subordinate. The writer performs self-fashioning while probing possible dialogic strategies to reconcile herself to the intersectionality of the medieval power system. Intersectionality...
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Romanic Review (2014) 105 (3-4): 408–410.
Published: 01 May 2014
... than footnotes does not help, but a general narrative emerges with insights at times fascinating and persuasive. Drawing on her medievalist background, Stahuljak shows how medieval ideas of "race" and lineage use bloodlines as metaphors for a "psychological" transmission of hereditary characteristics...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (2): 151–176.
Published: 01 September 2022
...] damsel believed she would retain [him] for a long time; 6082–83). It is, moreover, all the likelier that these episodes are testing the notion of consent, because they touch on specific issues that have proved contentious in medieval and modern thinking about it. Both Galoain and Oringle...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (3): 483–490.
Published: 01 December 2023
... of Albin manipulating the parchment and reading the beginning of Genesis, clearly enunciated in Latin and almost whispered in English. The creaking, sweeping, at times even laser-like noises Albin elicits from the parchment audibly insist on the materiality of the medieval page and remind us...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (1): 112–130.
Published: 01 May 2022
.... I borrow the notion of “within-time-ness” from Ricoeur, “Narrative.” On the relation of this concept to medieval historiography see White, Content 169–84. 5. In their classic study, Juliet Corbin and Anselm Strauss show that for modern patients with chronic illnesses, “biographical...
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Romanic Review (2015) 106 (1-4): 200–204.
Published: 01 January 2015
..., a hybrid section on both "synchronic and diachronic encounters," i.e. encounters staged both within featured texts and across time through their post-medieval adaptations or manifestations. The essays that follow offer a wealth of materials and ideas for the design of courses at levels ranging from general...
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Romanic Review (2009) 100 (4): 415–429.
Published: 01 November 2009
... The image ing Public in Late Medieval England and France (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), and a large part of Paul Zumthor's late ceuvre: Paul Zumthor, La Poesie et la voix dans la civilisation medievale (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1984) and La lettre et la voix de la...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 128–150.
Published: 01 May 2020
... , and Venckeleer Theo , 61 – 75 . Turnhout : Brepols , 2004 . Kay Sarah . Animal Skins and the Reading Self in Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2017 . Kay Sarah . “ Post-human Philology and the Ends of Time in Medieval Bestiaries...
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Romanic Review (2009) 100 (4): 493–512.
Published: 01 November 2009
... as the 'Dark Ages'" (Mommsen 242). At the same time, however, the humanist light-dark metaphor was subject to nuances and qualifications. While the most strident versions of humanism did indeed posit a clear opposition to the medieval, humanism as a whole still co-existed with medievalism, exemplified among...
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Romanic Review (2001) 92 (4): 363–379.
Published: 01 November 2001
... the canonists now sought to convey (Noonan 425). Finally, according to Christopher Brooke in his book, The Medieval Idea of Marriage, the Decretum of Gratian secures victory for the Church as the aristocrats embrace his definition: " for the first time in the history of the Church, a single definition of what...
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Romanic Review (2015) 106 (1-4): 189–193.
Published: 01 January 2015
... "impurity" of all medieval languages). Its genre also mixes romance with geography, often using one trope to correct the other, as it fact-checks Alexander-romance accounts of the Iron Gate and the enclosure The Romanic Review Volume 106 Numbers 1-4 © The Trustees of Columbia University BOOK REVIEWS of Gog...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (2): 317–320.
Published: 01 September 2022
... in a variety of works drawing on Aristotelian and Stoic ideas of emotion, that is present, too, in rhetorical works, and that enjoys well-recognized ethical, political, and devotional uses. For Berlin, the passions of late medieval Iberian texts are not just innocuous themes around which courtiers exercised...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (2): 205–226.
Published: 01 September 2020
...; Truitt, Medieval Robots ), but that the ambivalent idea of artfulness (suspicious and/or admirable, false and/or useful) is fundamentally linked to mechanical invention in romance accounts of Alexander the Great. Beyond that, Alexander occupies an important role for medieval readers, writers...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 27–47.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., though he goes further in trusting [FIC] than AIME is always willing to do. An instance of medieval historiography thus leads the way in overcoming a residual Modern suspicion of a nonreferential mode of existence and of knowledge. Additionally, although AIME’s restriction of crossings to two modes...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (1-2): 133–153.
Published: 01 January 2012
... in European culture as a marginal trend that is suppressed time and time again, but that always resurfaces, in many cases, as the important leaven in crucial works of the Western Tradition. The underlying hints of Gnosticism within Parsifal provide yet another example of the nineteenth century's obsession...
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