Fauvel Studies: Allegory, Chronicle, Music, and Image in Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, MS Français 146

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Margaret Bent, Andrew Wathey
Clarendon Press, 1998 - 666 pages
The manuscript Paris, Bibliothe'que Nationale, fonds francais 146, one of the most sumptuous and important of the fourteenth century, stands as an unparalleled witness to the politics, society, and culture of the French royal court in the early fourteenth century. It contains an interpolated version of the Roman de Fauvel, completed by Gerve's de Bus in 1314, that uniquely combines the Old French text with music setting poetry in French and Latin, high-quality illuminations (including early depictions of the architecture of medieval Paris), and further literary elaborations and additions. The narrative finds a place within several literary traditions, serving both as a satire on a fallen minister, Philip IV (d. 1314), Enguerran de Marigny, and as admonition or advice for the new King Philip V (crowned 1317). Alongside the Roman de Fauvel, fr. 146 also includes French and Latin narrative dits (the latter edited here for the first time), the complete known works of Jehannot de Lescurel, and an important French verse chronicle. It invites complementary works by such shoalrs in several disciplines.

This volume assembles papers by leading medievalists and younger scholars in different fields that reflect a period of interchange and collaboration viewing the same material from different perspectives. It is generously illustrated and includes essential new reference material for medievalists in political, social, and urban history, art and architecture history, musicology, the history of the book and codicology, and medieval languages and literatures, principally Old French and Latin. This interdisciplinary collection presents a wealth of new material for medievalists working in a number of fields.

Contents

For examples in Chs 5 and 19 see Index of Compositions
1
Contents of fr 146
5
Feasts of Good
20
Jehannot de Lescurel and the Function of Musical Language
25
Plates the plates appear between pp 332 and 333
30
Which Came First?
35
Fr 146 fo 36
36
Figures
42
Le Contexte folklorique et musical du charivari dans le Roman de Fauvel
277
222
280
Satire Pictorial Genre and the Illustrations in BN fr 146
285
La Chancellerie royale à la fin du règne de Philippe IV le Bel
307
Jehannot de Lescurels Chansons Geffroy de Pariss Dits and the Process
321
223
327
les enjeux dun changement
337
The Background to the Ballades
353

23
45
Rex ioians ionnes iolis Louis X Philip V and the Livres de Fauvel
53
Authorial SelfRepresentation and Literary Models in the Roman de Fauvel
73
The Refrain and the Transformation of Genre in the Roman de Fauvel
105
Hybridity Monstrosity and Bestiality in the Roman de Fauvel
161
The Flowering of Charnalité and the Marriage of Fauvel
175
The Profile of Philip V in the Music of Fauvel
215
The Metrical Chronicle Traditionally Ascribed to Geffroy de Paris
233
An Editio Princeps
247
177
249
221
266
Cosmic Quaternities in the Roman de Fauvel
395
Local Chant Readings and the Roman de Fauvel
495
Jehannot de Lescurel
525
Manuscript Text Image
569
Content and Context of the Fauvel Manuscript
591
Gervès du Bus the Roman de Fauvel and the Politics of the Later
599
Mundus
615
Select Bibliography for fr 146
637
Index of Manuscripts
643
General Index
651
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