Bent, Margaret - Fauvel Studies

The manuscript Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, fonds francais 146, one of the most sumptuous and important of the fourteenth century, stands as an unparalleled witness to the politics, society, and culture of the French royal court in the early fourteenth century. It contains an interpolated version of the Roman de Fauvel, completed by Gerves de Bus in 1314, that uniquely combines the Old French text with music setting poetry in French and Latin, high-quality illuminations (including early depictions of the architecture of medieval Paris), and further literary elaborations and additions. This volume assembles papers by leading medievalists and younger scholars in different fields. Generously illustrated, it includes essential new reference material for medievalists in political, social and urban history, art and architectural history, musicology, the history of the book and codicology, and medieval languages and literatures, principally Old French and Latin.

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CONTENTS

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
List of Musical Examples
List of Contributors
Abbreviations
Margaret Bent & Andrew Wathey: Introduction
1 Wulf Arlt: Jehannot de Lescurel and the Function of Musical Language in the Roman de Fauvel as Presented in BN fr. 146
2 Margaret Bent: Fauvel and Marigny: Which Came First?
3 Elizabeth A. R. Brown: Rex ioians, ionnes, iolis: Louis X, Philip V, and the Livres de Fauvel
4 Kevin Brownlee: Authorial Self-representation and Literary Models in the Roman de Fauvel
5 Ardis Butterfield: The Refrain and the Transformation of Genre in the Roman de Fauvel
Appendix: Catalogue of Refrains in the Roman de Fauvel of fr. 146
6 Michael Camille: Hybridity, Monstrosity, and Bestiality in the Roman de Fauvel
7 Alice V. Clark: The Flowering of Charnalite and the Marriage of Fauvel
Appendix: Floret cum Vana Gloria/Florens vigor/Neuma and Carnalitas luxuria
8 Michael Davis: Desespoir, Esperance, and Douce France: The New Palace, Paris, and the Royal State
9 Emma Dillon: The Profile of Philip V in the Music of Fauvel
Appendix: Servant regem/O Philippe prelustris Francorum/Rex regum
10 Jean Dunbabin: The Metrical Chronicle Traditionally Ascribed to Geffroy de Paris
11 Leofrance Holford-Strevens: The Latin Dits of Geffroy de Paris - An Editio princeps
12 Michael Huglo: Le Contexte folklorique et musical du charivari dans le Roman de Fauvel
13 Martin Kauffmann: Satire, Pictorial Genre, and the Illustrations in BN fr. 146
14 Elisabeth Lalou: La Chancellerie royale a la fin du regne du Philippe IV le Bel
15 Joseph Morin: Jehannot de Lescurel's Chansons, Geffroy de Paris's Dits, and the Process of Design in fr. 146
Appendix: The Pricking Patterns and Column Widths of Gatherings 6 and 7 of fr. 146
16 Jean-Claude Muhlethaler: Discours de narrateur, discours de Fortune: les enjeux dun changement de point de vue
17 Christopher Page: Tradition and Innovation in BN fr. 146: The Background to the Ballades
Appendix A
Appendix B: A Layer of Ballade Texts in Douce 308
Appendix C: The Notes Ioherenges of Le Roman de la Rose
18 Nigel F. Palmer: Cosmic Quaternities in the Roman de Fauvel
Appendix: Excerpts from the Walter Burley, Expositio libri de sex principiis
19 Susan Rankin: The Alleluyes, antenes, respons, ygnes et verssez in BN fr. 146: A Catalogue Raisonne
20 Nancy Freeman Regalado: The Chronique metrique and the Moral Design of BN fr. 146: Feasts of Good and Evil
21 Anne Walters Robertson: Local Chant Readings and the Roman de Fauvel
Appendix: Manuscripts Consulted
22 Mary and Richard Rouse: Jehannot de Lescurel
23 Alison Stones: The Stylistic Context of the Roman de Fauvel, with a Note on Fauvain
Appendix A: The Historiography of Fauvel and Related Illumination
Appendix B: The Stylistic Subgroups Surrounding the Fauvel Master
24 Jane H. M. Taylor: Le Roman de Fauvain: Manuscript, Text, Image
Appendix: Simplified Genealogical Table Showing Chatillon-Valois Connections
25 Malcolm Vale: The World of the Courts: Content and Context of the Fauvel Manuscript
26 Andrew Wathey: Gerves du Bus, the Roman de Fauvel, and the Politics of the Later Capetian Court
Appendix: Members of the Royal Commission, 24 January 1315, and of the Estroit Conseil, July 1316
27 Lorenz Welker: Polyphonic Reworkings of Notre-Dame Conductus in BN fr. 146. I. Mundus a mundicia and Quare fremuerunt
Select Bibliography for fr. 146
Index