Description
Book SynopsisFocusing on language's political power, these essays discuss how representation, through language norms, plays and court spectacles, manipulations and adaptations of texts and images, both constitutes and reflects a cultural milieu. The volume brings together various disciplinary approaches, offering a complex appreciation of these questions. While a core of the essays focuses on France, the contributions engage a broad range of geographical contexts, from Byzantium to eastern Germany and England from the early centuries of the Common Era to the seventeenth century, revealing the prevalence and persistence of the key interconnected issues of images and authority. Contributors: Carla Bozzolo; Philippe Caron; Robert L. A. Clark; Paul Cohen; Thomas Conley; Jean-Philippe Genet; Douglas Kibbee; Gillette Labory; Nicole Pons; Mara R. Wade.
Trade Review"The book serves as a reminder that we can only translate the past that has been left to us--and much of the time that past has been skewed--whether intentionally or not. The essays included in this collection offer new insights, new data, and new interpretations of their subjects which are a welcome addition to studyes in translation, art, literature, and history. The transdisciplinarity of the collection is to be commended, and will no doubt be of use to many scholars working on aspects of medieval and early modern authority." Rachel Reid, Queen's University Belfast, The Medieval Review 17.11.03
Table of ContentsIntroduction
I. Language and Norms
Language and Identity: The Case of Byzantium, by Thomas Conley
Le « Père des bonnes lettres » et le « prince de la riche locution françoyse » ; L'image du roi-polyglotte et l'élévation du français à la Renaissance, sens et ambivalences, by Paul Cohen
Les images de l'autorité en matière de langue en France (1453-1647), by Philippe Caron and Douglas Kibbee
II. Performances and Authorities
The
Parlement de Paris and the Plays: A Reconsideration of the 1548 Ban of the "Mystères sacrés," by Robert L. A. Clark
The Construction of Electoral Saxon Identity in the Court Festivities of 1548, by Mara R. Wade
III. Collection and Compilation Reflecting and Constituting Authority
Les Bibliothèques privées en Angleterre: Livres et littérature politique, by Jean-Philippe Genet
Diffusion et autorité de la
Grande Chronique de Normandie (XIVe-XVe siècles): Mouvance du texte et réseau de circulation, by Gillette Labory
IV. The Power of Translators
Un « homme populaire et de petite science au service des hommes de pouvoir »: L'humaniste Laurent de Premierfait, by Carla Bozzolo
Un « Manuel » d'économie domestique bourgeoise: Laurent de Premierfait et les
Économiques du Pseudo-Aristote, by Nicole Pons†
Dürer's Self-Portrait (1500) and the Charisma of Images, by C. Stephen Jaeger
List of Manuscripts
Bibliography
Index
