Description
Book SynopsisThe 15 original essays in this volume represent only a few of the paths that Glyn Burgess's research career has taken: lays, by Marie de France and unknown authors; manuscript collections of lays and fabliaux; episodic narratives, from ancestral/?outlaw romance and Norman vernacular historiography; transformations of the Brendan legend; and authorial voice in religious texts, including Wace's. The diversity of content and approaches has created a volume which will serve both as a fitting tribute to Burgess's continuing influence and expertise, as well as a contribution to the growing theoretical and applied work in the area of the short narrative, which the authors extend to a very broad range of works, from fabliau to hagiography, from history to myth. This breadth of interest, within a close and analytical focus on short narrative, make this an important, indeed unique, collection.
Table of ContentsPreface
Abbreviations
Tabula Gratulatoria
Biographical Essay
Appreciation
Glyn S. Burgess — Publications
Introduction
1. Brevity as Emphasis in the Narrative Lay: The Long and the Short of It
Douglas Kelly 2. Looking in the Mirror and Twinning Tales in
Milun and
DoonMatilda Tomaryn Bruckner 3. Marie de France, Translator of
LaisRupert T. Pickens 4. Heritage in the Lais of Marie de France
Logan E. Whalen 5. Marie de France’s
Chaitivel: A Lesson in
rapiditàEliza Hoyer-Millar 6. Marie de France’s
Lais in BnF MS. nouv. acq. fr. 1104 (MS. S)
Leslie C. Brook 7. Où ranger les récits brefs? Petite enquête sur le contexte manuscrit des fabliaux et des lais
Richard Trachsler 8. Textual Clusters in Manuscript Transmission and Reception: The
Lai de l’ombre and its Co-Texts
Karen Pratt 9. The Teller and the Tale: Meta- and Micro-narratives in the
Chanson de ToileKaren J. Taylor 10.
La Voie de Povreté et de Richesse, A Fourteenth-Century Moral Allegory
Glynnis M. Cropp 11. The Fire Rekindled: Brendan in the Baltics
Clara Strijbosch 12. The Journey of St. Brendan: The
Navigatio through Six Centuries of Augmentation and Reduction
Margaret Burrell 13. Where the Snakes Went: What Happened to St. Patrick’s Serpents?
Keith Busby 14. L’histoire d’Hasting: un récit bref dans le long temps des chroniques normandes
Laurence Mathey-Maille 15. Authorial Voice in Wace’s
Assomption and Anonymous Versions
Jean Blacker 16.
Envoi: Multum in parvo
Peter F. Ainsworth Contributors
Index of Names
Index of Manuscripts
Subject Index
