Charles D'Orleans in England (1415-1440)

by Arn, Mary-Jo

• ISBN13: 9780859915809
• ISBN10: 0859915808
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-09-01
• Publisher: Ds Brewer

Summary

Charles, duc d'Orl_ans, prince and poet, was a captive in England for twenty-five years following the battle of Agincourt. The studies in this volume, by European and American scholars, focus on his life and actions during that time, and show him as a serious and learned reader, a cunning political figure (accomplished in the skills that would impress the English nobility around him), and a masterful poet, innovative, witty, and intensely self-aware. Discussion of his manuscripts, his social and political relationships, his extensive library, and his poetry in two languages reveal him as a shrewd observer of life, which in his poetry he describes in ways not seen again until the Renaissance.Contributors: MICHAEL K. JONES, WILLIAM ASKINS, GILBERT OUY, M. ARN, CLAUDIO GALDERISI, JOHN FOX, R.C. CHOLAKIAN, A.C. SPEARING, DEREK PEARSALL, JANET BACKHOUSE, JEAN-CLAUDE MUHLETHALER, A.E.B. COLDIRON

Table of Contents

List of Plates	vii
List of Contributors	viii
Abbreviations	ix
Introduction	1	(8)
`Gardez mon corps, sauvez ma terre' - Immunity from War and the Lands of a Captive Knight: The Siege of Orleans (1428-29) Revisited	9	(18)
Michael K. Jones
The Brothers Orleans and their Keepers	27	(20)
William Askins
Charles d`Orleans and his Brother Jean d'Angouleme in England: What their Manuscripts Have to Tell	47	(14)
Gilbert Ouy
Two Manuscripts, One Mind: Charles d'Orleans and the Production of Manuscripts in Two Languages (Paris, BN MS fr. 25458 and London, BL MS Harley 682)	61	(18)
Mary-Jo Arn
Charles d`Orleans et l' `autre' langue: Ce francais que son `cuer amer doit'	79	(10)
Claudio Galderisi
Glanures	89	(20)
John Fox
Le monde vivant	109	(14)
Rouben C. Cholakian
Dreams in The Kingis Quair and the Duke's Book	123	(22)
A. C. Spearing
The Literary Milieu of Charles of Orleans and the Duke of Suffolk, and the Authorship of the Fairfax Sequence	145	(12)
Derek Pearsall
Charles of Orleans Illuminated	157	(8)
Janet Backhouse
Charles d'Orleans, une prison en porte-a-faux. Co-texte courtois et ancrage referentiel: les ballades de la captivite dans l'edition d'Antoine Verard (1509)	165	(18)
Jean-Claude Muhlethaler
Translation, Canons, and Cultural Capital: Manuscripts and Reception of Charles d'Orleans's English Poetry	183	(32)
A. E. B. Coldiron
Bibliographical Supplement	215	(12)
Index	227