Tales of Vice and Virtue: The First Old French "Vie Des Peres"

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Rodopi, 2005 - 612 pages
Here is presented for the first time an extraordinary medieval text, the first Old French Vie des Pères. The Vie des Pères is in fact a collective text comprising three branches and, at its fullest, over seventy individually enclosed pious tales / miracles. The first Vie - the first forty-one or -two tales - dates from the first third of the thirteenth century. It is a vitally significant but hitherto neglected part of the Old French canon. Indeed, in his preface to this volume Michel Zink, one of the most respected medievalists of his generation, notes that the qualities of the Vie des Pèrs 'devraient valoir à son auteur une place au voisinage de celle qu'occupent pour nous celui de la Chanson de Roland ou Chrétien de Troyes.' The tales are remarkably well written and offer fascinating glimpses of thirteenth-century life and spirituality. They were also extremely popular in Medieval France. Sharing close links with a number of traditions - fabliaux, Saints' Lives, Miracles of the Virgin, Romance, Sermons - the Vie des Pères has value for those interested in many branches of vernacular literature, codicology, lexicography, art history, theology and philology. Tales of Vice and Virtue - the first sustained analysis of the entire first Vie des Pères to be published - is a groundbreaking book providing readers new to the text with detailed commentaries, offering abundant intertextual information for romance philologists, and suggesting many new areas for further research.
 

Contents

NOTE ON REFERENCES AND ABBREVIATIONS
9
INTRODUCTION
15
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
45
Juitel p 52Sarrasine p 60 Renieur p 78 Païen
111
CHAPTER TWO
123
Miserere p 128 Ave Maria p 140 Demiami p 150
150
Vision de Diables p 158 Vision denfer p 168
168
CHAPTER THREE
183
CHAPTER SIX
355
Crapaud p 359 Haleine p 375 Baril p 399
399
CHAPTER SEVEN
409
Feuille de chou p 410 Noël p 421 Malaquin p 430
430
Copeaux p 437 Fou p 447 Sacristine p 465
465
Abbesse grosse p 482
482
CHAPTER EIGHT
495
Fornication imitée p 503 Jardinier p 510 Thaïs p 518
518

Meurtrier p 188Ivresse p 200 Prévot dAquilée
210
CHAPTER FOUR
225
Goliard p 229 Ermite accusé p 236Impératrice
246
AND THE SEVEN CARDINAL VIRTUES
269
Droz I 1955 II 1961 III 1966 IV 1970
327
Queue p 281 Merlot p 288 Sénéchal p 300 Brûlure
347
Image de pierre p 539 Usurier p 554 St Paulin
571
CONCLUSION
577
BIBLIOGRAPHY
585
Tubach
610
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