Twittering collage comics: a fine, noble, and ancient art
I. BEFORE 30 MAY 2017
2008
- “Filmography“
- “Joan-ery: resources“
- “Updated Joan of Arc: Supplement to ‘Talking History’ on NewsTalk 106“
- “Update: Joan of Arc, ‘Talking History’ on NewsTalk” (24 August 2008: Dr Patrick Geoghegan in conversation with Drs Sylvie Kleinman (TCD History), Juliet O’Brien (TCD, CMRS/Literature), and Melissa Pollock (UCD History).)
2013
2017
(and back to Twitter…)
II. 30 MAY 2017
Bibliothèque nationale de France – Gallica
(Bibliotheca Augustana)
(Some EN translations of Villon’s “Ballade des dames du temps jadis”) http://lachlan.bluehaze.com.au/snows_of_yesteryear.html …
It is, as ever, horrifying to see how the hate-mongering religious right has perverted Joan; see the hashtag jeannedarc for example
Some educational links…
1 Primary texts:
- International Joan of Arc Society, 1431 trial record & index verborum https://faculty.smu.edu/bwheeler/ijas/guide.html …
- The famous Bonnie Wheeler Joan of Arc Syllabus http://faculty.smu.edu/bwheeler/joan_of_arc/syllabus.html …
- Ken Pennington Joan of Arc syllabus http://classes.maxwell.syr.edu/his401/index.htm …
- Craig Taylor Joan of Arc bibliography https://faculty.smu.edu/bwheeler/ijas/Craig.Taylor.University.of.York.doc …
2 Christine de Pizan, “Ditié de Jehanne d’Arc”
Via Leah Shopkow: further primary documents (the trial records) + #ChristinedePizan “Song of Joan of Arc” (Kennedy & Varty EN translation) http://www.indiana.edu/~dmdhist/joan.htm …
The other tweets in that sequence were screenshots of the aforementioned Middle French text and English translation, side by side. (The NEXT POST on this present blog will tidy and jiggle them into a tidy facing-column text.)
And then I had a look at manuscripts, thinking that if I were to put together that free online text and translation, it would be sensible to have at least one of the manuscripts side by side.
Alas.
This—Joan of Arc’s day and my own birthday—proved to be a day of feminist annoyance (also birthday treats including a splendid dinner thanks to The Beloved).
Links for manuscript locating:
Conversation about manuscripts and their descriptions carried through to 2 June:
I really was grumpy. But these helped…
When a #notaunicorn and #notachristinedepizan become a whole new marvellous monstrous hybrid in an antimisogynist allegory
III. AFTER 30 MAY 2017
“Since the advent of The Post-Ironic Dictatorship Of The Post-Proletariat in the USA, there’s been a certain resurgence of interest in—and a renewed appreciation of the eternal timeliness and relevance of—the allegorical, the apocalyptic, and active women; writers, makers, and shapers. It’s not all about The Handmaid’s Tale; I have a sense that Christine de Pizan may be having a resurgence. Renaissance. Renovation. Consider this a tip-off on trend-spotting, cool-hunting, and innovation. […]”
Here follow three points from which #Christinedepizan might have told of Hippolyta and Wonderwoman, in this imaginary continuation…
1
Épistre Othéa 15, where we meet Penthesilea as the theological #virtue of #Charity (@BLMedieval Harley 4431 103v)
1904 ed. of 1450s Stephen Scrope translation (later reprinted by the Early English Text Society, 1969), p. 26-27, via https://archive.org/stream/epistleofotheato00chririch#page/n7/mode/1up …
Zooming in, there are several Amazons who could be identified as Hippolyta…
(links to @BLMedieval blog)
2
Épistre Othéa 23: Diana introducing a feminist Credo and (24, Ceres) Creation @BLMedieval Harley 4431 107r (links as previously)
1904 Scrope translation, p. 37
Zooming in (noting Diana in the sky; also a pre-superhero), we can place a young Wonder Woman among the wondering women readers / conferring study group (remembering that reading and learning are superpowers, and associated with true knowledge via the Lasso of Truth)
3
Amazons inc Hippolyta in Cité des Dames 1. 16-20 @BLMedieval Harley 4431 302v et seq http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=harley_ms_4431_f178r …
… and 4, at the end of Cité des Dames book 3, the ladies enter the freshly-built city: @BLMedieval Harley 4431 323r
… look closely, top left: (a rather Joanian) #WonderWoman
is discreetly protecting women. Then (600 years ago) as now as, in the imagination, for ever.
#persisterhood
NEXT: the Ditié de Jehanne d’Arc in a parallel text version, copy-pasting freely available text and an old translation from online, where my sole contribution will be formatting. (I may do some tidying, in this upcoming version or later, as the translation has some Moments. As do they all, and who would have translation be otherwise? It would be a joyless inhuman flat grey thing.)
#inspiring #ThoughtForTheDay
Juliet O’Brien 