medieval Occitan literature

Animal reading: teaching and learning about animal thinking

This essay is based on a talk given in January 2020 at the Modern Language Association Convention in Seattle, whose Presidential Theme was “Being Human.” (more…)

Reading frogsong

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Translating rape in “Flamenca” (2)

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Translating rape in “Flamenca” (1)

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Once upon a time, there were many Flamencas …

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On translation (including a very short story)

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Translating the Old Occitan Romance of Enimia for #AcWriMo (1)

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The consolation and living magic of old poetry

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Work in progress: remembering there’s a “HAG” in hagiography, inspired by Saint Enimia on her feast-day today

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Célébrons & celebrate #WomensDay #JournéeDeLaFemme #InternationalWomensDay #JournéeDesDroitsDesFemmes #WomensHistoryMonth with some #medieval #occitan #poetry #poésie (C 12-13 s.) by women #trobairitz #écriture #féminine

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The Joy of Consent: Feeling Together (in some medieval Occitan poetry); FHIS Research Seminar (1 = pre-circulated slides + references + post-talk links)

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Protected: The Joy of Consent: Feeling Together (MLA talk notes)

Work in progress

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50 years ago: philology, decolonisation, deconstruction

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#femfog avant la lettre, #fembuée, & #femflow

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Occitan Lyric Poetry as Defence Against the Dark Arts

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“Flamenca” at #Kzoo2016 (2): notes from roundtable + tidied fuller version of talk

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“Flamenca” at #Kzoo2016: (UPDATED 2018: manuscript online &) rough list of editions & translations

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“Flamenca” at #Kzoo2016 (1): before the climactic event, an introduction to international medievalist congress

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Extending #HugAMedievalist and #WhanThatAprilleDay16 into a weekend Occ Fest

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#WhanthatAprilleDay16 – Guilhem de Peitieus / Old Occitan

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Next up: work in progress, #femfog

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Academia dot edu

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Work in progress: “Flamenca”, fakery, artifice, and Troubadour poetry

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Magpies (1): on Eugene Onegin, birds of an intelligent variety, how one might distinguish these birds from other birds and from one another and why one might wish to do so, and language teaching

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Medievalising “The Fall” and Power-Pointing

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Work in progress

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Democratic “Flamenca”: read it online for free, and relatively cheaply in paperback

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FLAMENCA UNBOUND

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The Old Talks Series: “Richard the Lionheart and the poetics of imprisonment”

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The Old Talks Series: “Chat-Up Lines: The Expression of Feminine Ingenuity in some Occitan Hagiography” (Faith, Enimia, Margaret)

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Next posts and a SHINY NEW RESEARCH PROJECT

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UPDATE / REMISE À JOUR : “La Consolation de l’amitié poétique au féminin dans le ‘Roman de Flamenca’ “

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Give thanks for unseasonal birds: parrots!

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The Old Talks Series: “La Consolation de l’amitié poétique au féminin dans le ‘Roman de Flamenca’ “

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NEWS: “Flamenca” (UPDATED with pictures)

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The Old Talks Series: “The ‘Trobairitz’ and ‘Flamenca’ “

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Courtly Love in “Flamenca”

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The Old Talks Series: “The 13th-century Occitan ‘Flamenca’: a mere curiosity or a larger literary conundrum?”

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applied medievalism (1)

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The Old Talks Series: “Courtly Love and Chrétien de Troyes’s ‘Lancelot’ (or, Why Gaston Paris Was Not Actually Wrong)”

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The Old Talks Series: “François Rigolot: Renaissance Medievalist”

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first of the old talks: on Guillelmus de Aragonia, “De nobilitate animi”

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courtly love: a bibliography

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online resources for Early Romance studies

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on courtly love

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resources

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material sources

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hyperprojects

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e-lit resources

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bibliography: mainly 12th-14th c. French and Occitan literature

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French and Occitan

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De Grammatica

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On Derivative Ingenuity

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