...Simone Ventura Book Reviews Catherine E. Leglu. Multilingualism and Mother Tongue in Medieval French, Occitan, and Catalan Narratives. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State UP, 2010. Pp. 216. Moving easily among different languages and literary genres, Prof. C. Leglu, a leading representative...

...; but from about the 1970s, philological work in all these areas declined, and there was a turn in favor of literary, theoretical and cultural research. The Romanic Review has always been hospitable to medieval French and Proven~al or, as I call it, Occitan studies, but its publications in these fields...

...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...

...Francesco Marco Aresu Abstract This article hypothesizes an intertextual relationship between the literary transfiguration of Occitan troubadour Bertran de Born in Inferno 28 and a fragment of Latin poetry preserved by late antique scholars (and disputedly attributed to Roman poet Ennius...

... dispossession with Petrarch’s idea of solitude, this essay examines solitary presence as a musicopoetic art form across various vernacular traditions, from the Occitan works of Bernart de Ventadorn, William IX, and Arnaut Daniel to lyrics of the Iberian Peninsula, including the Mozarabic kharja (final stanzas...

... relatively little emphasis is the presence of Occitan song in northern chansonniers; while some of the developments described in the book could have been related to the influence of Occitan lyric in the north, this line of inquiry would not harmonize with the focus on the refrain, which Butterfield...

... hegemony, and the Occitan language. She also noted that Romanic Review has historically been hospitable to studies of Occitan literature. With this in mind, in concluding, I would like to throw out two hypotheses that are also questions. Does the category of "Romance" appear hospitable to Occitan and its...

... (or renewed, or newly initiated) institutional support for medieval French (and Francophone and Occitan) studies as a crucial subfield within our discipline. When lines once held by medievalists go unfilled, when curricular incentives to study the premodern French-speaking world are sunset, when funding...

... and by the classification of the Romance languages within those borderlines. All this could not be more obvious, but, at the same time, it has very evident consequences as well: Occitan cultures are studied, if at all, within French departments, as if Occitan were a part of the monde de fa (rancophonie; the Catalan...

... and cultural meaning of translation, use of interpreters. Moreover, the author has succeeded in doing justice to neglected late medieval Occitan/Catalan literature. Particularly important is the case of the anonymous fourteenth-century nova, Frayre de Joy e Sor de Plaser, a linguistically and literary hybrid...

... "un terrain d'investigation aussi interessant que prometteur" (255). Anne Reach-Ngo, a recognized specialist of editorial and publishing practices, offers a satisfying chapter about the publishing context of Tresors (i.e. poetic compendia). Christine Benevent takes up the marginal Occitan poet Auger...

... E. Multilingualism and Mother Tongue in Medieval French, Occitan and Catalan Narratives. University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 2010. Letras de Deusto 40.127-129 (2010). Mancini, Mario. Die frohliche Wissenschaft der Trobadors. Wiirzburg: Konig- shausen and Neumann, 2009. Marchal-Weyl, Catherine...

.... The poem is found in several other manuscripts, most notably in Vatican Library, Chigiano L.VIII.305. 8. Sandro Bertelli posits that the hand of Pietro Berzoli from Gubbio that produces the Old Occitan manuscript Laurenziano Pluteo 41.42 (the Old Occitan “primer” datable to ca. 1310, noted...

... component, where Dante is the commentator of his own poems (in texts modeled on the Old Occitan razos ) and of his own authorial actions (as Dante recounts the events he claims led him to compose the poems). Then there is an “I” who presents to the reader as compiler of his own poems, from the moment...

.... For instance, France’s imperial project relied on a normative idea of Frenchness, which was partly constructed through the French state’s progressive delegitimation of regional languages in metropolitan France (such as Occitan, Corsican, Breton, etc.), from the 1539 decree of Villers-Cotterêts...

... l'avant-garde, de son elitisme et de sa volonte de rupture. lIse tourne vers la poesie medievale" (Murat 198; emphasis mine). Aragon took the Vichy and fascist nostalgia for a golden Middle Ages and subverted it to his own devices, using Occitan troubadour poetry and the trohar clus (encrypted troubadour...

... between my very early work in the 1980s on instructions to medieval illuminators in Old Occitan and early Italian manuscripts and my later service on the editorial board of Dante Studies . A 1999 version titled “Over Dante’s Dead Body” and presented at a conference in New York contained a small kernel...

... maniere autoritaire, mais manifeste a son egard la plus grande deference, denuee de toute condescendance. Eliot et Pound n'agirent pas autrement : ils recomposerent leur heritage litteraire, en excluant, d'un cote, les poetes romantiques et en reevaluant, de I'autre, la poesie courtoise occitane du Moyen...

..., including French literature, on which we will be concentrating here, developed in a parallel way.6 A look at the number of doctoral dissertations in the field of medieval French and Occitan philology is very revealing: in the thirty years from 1880 to 1910, about forty dissertations were written in a few...

... in Occitan-Catalan lands-it seems understandable that this movement was explained as an expansion of Catharism beyond the Pyrenees. It is surprising that Menendez Pelayo did not think to doubt that explanation and continued referring to the members of this movement as the "Albigensians of Leon," following...