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This paper studies the textual, peritextual and codicological strategies implemented by the fifteenth-century French translators in order to write down their authorial figure into the materiality of their manuscripts. On the basis of the analyse of still visible clues left by translators, the paper aims to put the spotlight on the nature, the issues and the function of those "corpo-reality" strategies. It focuses on the case of Laurent de Premierfait and Jean Miélot. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the critical reflexivity between actors and the audiences by focusing on François-Joseph Talma during the French Revolution. Admirers wrote letters to Talma filled with advice which may have prompted Talma’s dramatic style, his theory about “creative imagination”, and his belief in an actor’s mission to be like a history teacher, which he would later develop in Réflexions sur Lekain et sur l’art théâtral (1825). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is agreed that the BnF fr. 12599 manuscript is one of the first examples of an editorial collaboration aiming to build up an arthurian compilation, since the prose Tristan is copied in it along with other narratives. This paper reconstructs in a different way the making of the manuscript : it was an incomplete copy of the Tristan, which two scribes split and filled up with missing parts of the Tristan and other excerpts, thus retrospectively transforming a copy of the Tristan into a cycle. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the end of the Middle Ages, many authors like Martin Le Franc in Le Champion des Dames used a corporal metaphor, instead of traditional vegetal one, to personify and embody their own manuscript. This paper deals with the rhetorical implications of this evolution, and specially with the categories of ethos and actio, in connection with the development of auctorial manuscripts and autography. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Helinand's stanza is still in use in c.15 French Mystery plays, but only as a simple tool. This paper aims to explain the reasons of this mutation. It explores the traditional uses and the new roles of the metric form on stage. Helinand's stanza reveals the art of rewriting mystery plays, underlines the collaborations and the competitions between famous playwrights, and sheds a new light on the process of creating Medieval drama. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To this day, there is no consensus as to the social background of the fourteenth-century French epics. Comparing the fourteenth-century re-writing of Renaut de Montauban with its late twelfth-century counterpart, this paper will demonstrate the growing importance of cities, burghers, and money, but will also show how a new idea of the castle emerged that seemed to belong more to the world of literature and myth than to reality, and which might also have been grounded in an urban context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the role of French epic stanzas known as laisses in La Chanson de Bertrand du Guesclin to determine the parts played by archaism and innovation in this late epic poem. The study reveals the structuring effect of the laisse, which retains its delimitative function but which is also part of larger narrative unities in the epic literature of the late Middle Ages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the Louis Dumur collection of the Carnegie Library in Reims, France, particularly one of the most interesting texts on his report in Geneva, Switzerland. The quality of the paper and ink, the annotation protocols, few drawings, etc., are the many clues that convince one that this news was started in the autumn of 1884 when Dumur was twenty one years.

The tablao is a club where flamenco dance and music shows are offered. This paper demonstrates how the different elements of the tablao work together following a hetero-patriarchal logic and how this logic is reproduced using certain socio-economic and psychological mechanisms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This choice may seem paradoxical for a character who is at the same time a man of power and a lover. Based on seventeenth century sources and contemporary stage productions, this paper studies Nero's paradoxical, showing how it allows questioning the definition of the masculine and its association with the traditional attributes of authority and power in Western society [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper defends the possibility of identifying not one, but two tiers of opposition between the concepts of the right and the good, but also of thinking their articulation as a normative issue. It specifically examines the way Thomas Nagel articulates these two notions, in a liberal and egalitarian perspective close to Rawls's, but using a distinct and original method, which calls for a rethink of the links between morality and politics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Typical of modern reflections on justice is a distinction – absent in classical philosophy – between the standpoint of the right or of justice and that of the good. Those who have insisted on the sharpness of the distinction have argued mostly for the priority of the just. This paper will question the entanglement of the distinction between the right and the good and the question of which of these notions has priority. This will lead in turn to a defence of the idea that these notions are in fact complementary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper assesses the relevance of the distinction between the right and the good within the framework of a Machiavelli-inspired republican theory directed towards « innovative societies ». I identify the specific perspective of republicanism as being ascribable neither to liberalism nor to communitarianism, before going on to characterize the social groups that are subject to the dynamics of innovation. This contextualization of the distinction offers interesting possibilities for rethinking current or emergent transitions within these social groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At the very beginning of the sixteenth century, Martin Dorpius and Adrien Barlandus, two humanist scholars at Louvain, staged antic comedies and tragedies with their students. On these occasions, they composed original prologues imitating those of their ancient models. This paper aims to analyze the way the introductory texts to the performances displayed various forms of authorship, from revered “auctoritas" to shared authorship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The argument about the occult and its rational understanding is quite complicated. Here, I propose some reflections on the relationship between demonology and astrology in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. This paper studies the demonological and astrological debate occurred between the 14th and 17th century; how this debate had an enormous influence on the process of rational understanding of the occult. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is an essay of comparative literature about three texts from the late sixteenth century to the beginning of the seventeenth century, written by French or Spanish authors who depicted the life of beggars through the pseudo autobiography of a character living among them in different areas (Charente, Loire-Atlantique, Poitou, Seville, Rome). It compares the nature, diversity, intensity of the poor's passions, in the moral meaning this word had at that time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The frontispiece image of the Livre de l'Espérance due to the Talbot Master 1435 (BnF fr. 126, ca 1435) shows the most remarkable attention paid to the details of the text. This paper studies how the painted image, by using the traditional somnium's iconographic syntax, underlines the powerful shift created by Alain Chartier in the topic. Nonetheless, the painter avoids pathetics effects: the crossed-arms "damoiselle encontenancee" features the modest allegory of a restrained pathos. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 1582, the Livre de l'Espérance and the French translation of De vita Curiali, the Curial, were printed in one volume under the title of Curial. It was not the first time that these two works of Alain Chartier were brought together. The objective of this paper is to analyze the manuscript and printed transmission of the Livre de l'Espérance and the Curial to try to discover the reasons that led to associate these two texts, to confuse one work with the other and even to unify them as a single work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reconsiders the criticism levelled against the "debaz" in the Livre de l'Espérance, and argues that Alain Chartier does not reject in fact the principle of conflicting dialogue, so significant for the form of his poems: if this treatise gives way to the voice of religious authority, we can still hear a toned down protest against the world order, so that the movement of the debat, which is essential to human consciousness, represents a salutary experience of the limits of thought. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Vatican B.A.V. Reg. lat. 1334 manuscript gives an example of the classification of scientific knowledge and magical practices in French in the Late Middle Ages. This paper considers the coherence of this particular codex by describing the miscellany and identifying the texts it contains. Indeed, even if the manuscript brings very diversified treatises together (medicine, alchemy, astrology, prophecy), it is organised around a central topic, the secret. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines Rudolf Eucken's philosophical engagement during the First World War. The central themes of sacrifice, solidarity, nationalism and patriotism are investigated in terms of their philosophical significance and in their historical context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]