The rapid rise of vernacular literature in medieval France, within a culture which continued to acknowledge Latin as its vehicular language, is a fact that literary historians tend too easily to take for granted. Within a relatively short period, stretching roughly from the end of the eleventh century to the thirteenth century, French and Occitan literatures acquired an output and a level of sophistication that made them the leading models for other European literatures. New genres and new subject matters appear one after the other; new ideologies (such as the concept of love developed by the troubadours) are first expressed in vernacular creations; and even learned Latin authors soon feel obliged to take notice of these developments. Should we describe this astonishing chapter of cultural history as the development of a ?lay?, or ?profane?, literature alongside a Church-dominated learned and religious one, or as the emancipation of vernacular literature from the tutorship of the Church? Is the borderline between ?lay? and ?religious? texts and genres really as clear-cut as some literary histories would make us believe? How then did these new genres of written literature come into being in a culture in which the Church held the monopoly on education, including training in writing? Did the Church as an institution play any role in the birth and expansion of vernacular literature? In the present volume, specialists from the disciplines of linguistics, literature, history and musicology address the various aspects of this complex of questions. The examples studied here are witnesses not only to a constant interaction between lay and religious cultures but also to the productive tension that resulted from the particular situation of the Church in medieval France.
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Table of Contents
- The Church and Vernacular Literature in Medieval France 1
- Contents du roman cohabitation de récits profanes et de textes sacrés dans trois recueils v 5
- Acknowledgements du roman cohabitation de récits profanes et de textes sacrés dans trois recueils v 7
- Abbreviations du roman cohabitation de récits profanes et de textes sacrés dans trois recueils v 8
- Introduction 9
- Language and Writing 21
- LÉglise et le passage à lécrit du vernaculaire dans le Nord de la France au IX siècle 23
- Les traditions des textes paraliturgiques et le passage à lécrit du vernaculaire 43
- Genres 69
- Réécritures expérimentales Quelques réflexions sur le rôle de lÉglise dans la production épique du XII siècle 71
- Un nouveau genre pour un public novice la paraphrase biblique dans lespace roman du XII siècle 95
- The Lives of the Virgin by Wace and Herman de Valenciennes Conventions of Romance and Chanson de Geste in Religious Narrative 117
- Le clerc de Notre-Dame la littérature de miracle en langue vulgaire traduction et création 132
- Le bon usage du roman cohabitation de récits profanes et de textes sacrés dans trois recueils vernaculaires de la fin du XIII siècle 145
- Institutions 165
- Le chant vulgaire dans lÉglise à la fête de saint Étienne 167
- The Confraternity of Jongleurs and the Cult of the Virgin Vernacular Devotion and Documentation in Medieval Arras 184
- Modes of Expression 207
- Performing Saintly Lives and Emotions in Medieval French Narrative 209
- From Sacred to Secular and from Secular to Sacred The Role of Text-Music Relations in Two Lyric Contrafacta 222
- Emblems of Lament in Latin and Vernacular Song 232
- Bibliography du roman cohabitation de récits profanes et de textes sacrés dans trois recueils vernaculaires de la fin du XIII siècle 259
- Index of Authors and Texts 289
- Index of Subjects 297
