Proceedings of the ICLS Congress

Eighth Congress (1995) The Court and Cultural Diversity : Selected Papers from the Eighth Triennial Meeting of the International Courtly Literature Society, ed. Evelyn Mullally, John Thompson (D. S.Brewer, 1997) ISBN: 0859915174

I. CONTEXTS FOR COURTLINESS

Poet and Prince in Medieval Ireland, Gearóid Mac Eoin
Court Poets and Historians in Late Medieval Connacht,  Nollaig Ó Muraíle
Courtly Acculturation in the Lais and Fables of Marie de France, Rupert T. Pickens
Locating the Court: Socio-Cultural Exchange in Jean Renart's L'Escoufle, FranÇoise Le Saux
Negative Self-Promotion: the Troubadour "Sirventes Joglaresc" Catherine Léglu
Odd Man Out: Villon at Court, Barbara N. Sargent-Baur
Animating Medieval Court Satire, Ad Putter
 

II. FASHIONING HISTORY AND ROMANCE

La Fin des Chroniques de Froissart et le tragique de la cour, Michel Zink
Domesticating Diversity: Female Founders in Medieval Genealogical Literature and La Fille du comte de Pontieu, Donald Maddox
"Dame Custance la gentil": Gaimar's Portrait of a Lady and her Books, Jean Blacker
Alterity and Subjectivity in the Roman de Melusine, Sara Sturm-Maddox
Passelion, Marc l'Essilié et l'idéal courtois, Michelle Szkilnik
The Political Songs in the Chronicles of Pierre de Langtoft and Robert Mannying, Thea Summerfield
France after Bosworth, Helen Cooper

III. NEGOTIATING A COURTLY VOICE

Courtliness in Some Fourteenth-Century English Pastourelles, John Scattergood
Marie de France's Equitan and Fresne: the Failure of the Courtly Ideal, June Hall McCash
Secondary Characters in Equitan and Eliduc, Joan Brumlik
The Optimistic Love-Poet: Philippe de Beaumanoir, Leslie C. Brook
The Lady Speaks: The Transformation of French Courtly Poetry in the Thirteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, Maureen Boulton
Nice Young Girls and Wicked Old Witches: The "Rightful Age" of Women in Middle English Verse, Jessica Cooke
Readers, Writers, and Lovers in Grimalte y Gradissa, Diane M. Wright
Shota Rustaveli and the Structure of Courtly Love, G. Koolemans Beynen

IV. TEXTS AND READERS

The Tournai Rose as a Secular and a Sacred Epithalamium, Lori J. Walters
The Gesta Henrici Quinti and the Bedford Psalter-Hours, Sylvia Wright
Medicval Equivalents of "quote-unquote": the Presentation of Spoken Words in Courtly Romance, Frank Brandsma
Courtly Romances in the Privy Wardrobe, Carter Revard
John Shirley and the Emulation of Courtly Culture, A.S.G. Edwards
Richard Hill - a London Compiler, Heather Collier

V. THE LIMITS OF COURTLINESS

Our Food, Foreign Foods: Food as a Cultural Delimiter in the Middle Ages, Terence Scully
Courtly Cooking all'italiana: Gastronomical Approaches to Medieval Italian Literature, Christopher Kleinhenz
The Outsider at Court, or What is so Strange about the Stranger? William MacBain
"Pseudo"-Courtly Elements in a Canonical Epic, Sara I. James
The Prodigal Knight, the Hungry Mother and the Triple Murder: Mirrors and Marvels in the Dolopathos Dog Story, Mary B. Speer
Une recluse fort (peu) courtoise: destin d'une anecdote dans le Roman des Sept Sages, Yasmina Foehr-Janssens
Courtly Discourse and Folklore in La Manekine, Carol J. Harvey
The First-Person Narrator in Middle Dutch Fabliaux, Bart Besamusca
The Diabolic Hero in Medieval French Narrative: Trubert and Wistasse le Moine, Keith Busby