Proceedings of the ICLS Congress

Seventh Congress (1992): Literary Aspects of Courtly Culture: Selected Papers from the Seventh Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society, ed. Donald Maddox, Sara Sturm-Maddox (University of Rochester Press, 1994). ISBN: 0859914062

I. CONFIGURING THE FEMININE
Whose Voice? The Influence of Women Patrons on Courtly Romances, Joan Ferrante
Debatable Fictions: the Tensos of the Trobairitz, Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner
Eve as Adam's Pareil: Equivalence and Subordination in the Jeu d'Adam, Joan Tasker Grimbert
Nature's Forge Recast in the Roman de Silence, Suzanne Conklin Akbari
Criseyde's Honor: Interiority and Public Identity in Chaucer's Courtly Romance, Carolyn P. Collette
Analogy or Logic; Authority or Experience? Rhetorical Strategies For and Against Women, Karen Pratt

II. LYRIC VOICE, POETIC STYLE: FROM TROUBADOURS TO RHÉTORIQUEURS
Un paradoxe courtois: le chant et la plainte, Michel Zink
Des troubadours italotropes, Antoine Tavera
Les chansons de croisade: tradition versus subjectivité, Cathrynke Th. J. Dijkstra
Text and Countertexts: Three Anglo-Norman Lyrics, Carol J. Harvey
English Dream Poems of the Fifteenth Century and Their French Connections, Julia Boffey
Text and Building: Architectural Fictions in the Work of the Rhétoriqueurs, David Cowling

III. AMOR: ETHOS AND AFFECT
Gentil hertes ay redy to repaire: Dante's Francesca and Chaucer's Troilus, Piero Boitani
Naming the Warrior: Responding to the Charge of Sexual Deviance in Twelfth-Century Vernacular Romance, Raymond Cormier
Courtly and Uncourtly Love in the Prose Tristan, Janina Traxler
Allegorical Narrative in Philippe de Beaumanoir's Salu d'Amour, Leslie C. Brook
Le Court d'Amours de Matthieu le Poirier, Hans-Erich Keller
Amor hereos in Middle Dutch Literature: The Case of Lancelot of Denmark, Bart Besamusca

IV. FICTIONS OF IDENTITY AND ALTERITY
The Curse of the White Hind and the Cure of the Weasel: Animal Magic in the Lais of Marie de France, June Hall McCash
The Poetics of Androgyny in the Lais of Marie de France: Yonec, Milun, and the General Prologue, Rupert T. Pickens
Truth and Deception in the Fables of Marie de France, Karen K. Jambeck
Specularity in a Formulaic Frame Romance: "The Faithful Greyhound" and the Roman des Sept Sages, Mary B. Speer
The Man on a Horse and the Horse-Man: Constructions of Human and Animal in The Knight of the Parrot, Nathaniel Smith
Perspectives on the Quest Motif in Medieval Italian Literature: Comic Elements in Antonio Pucci's Gismirante, Christopher Kleinhenz
Chaucerian Romance and the World Beyond Europe, John M. Fyler
Image as Reception: Antoine de la Sale's Le petit Jehan de Saintré, Jane H. M. Taylor

V. CULTURE AND HISTORIOGRAPHY: PERSPECTIVES AND APPRAISALS
A Sign of the Times: The Question of Literacy in Medieval Occitania, Wendy Pfeffer
Monastic History in a Courtly Mode? Author and Audience in Guillaume de Saint-Pair's Roman du Mont Saint-Michel and the Anonymous Histoire de I'abbaye de Fécamp, Jean Blacker
Magister Conradus Presbyter: Pfaffe Conrad at the Court of Henry the Lion, Jeffrey Ashcroft
The Courtly Authority and Reception of the Iberian Chronicles: Medieval Historiography and Cultural Historicism, Roberto Gonzalez-Casanovas
Context and Genesis of Pierre de Langtoft's Chronicle, Thea Summerfield
Boek van Zeden: Three Medieval Flemish Courtesy Poems in the Latin Facetus Tradition, T. Meder
Reading Illustrations of Tristan, Stephanie Cain Van D'Elden
The End of an Adventure: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Setsuko Haruta