Revealing New Perspectives
Studies in Honor of Stephen G. Nichols
Edited by Kevin Brownlee and Marina S. Brownlee
PETER LANG
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Cover image: Erich Mendelsohn (1887–1953), Library and Office Building of Salman Schocken, Jerusalem, Israel, Interior perspectives, 1935. Graphite and color pencil on tracing paper. 14 × 11 ½ʺ (35.6 × 29.2 cm). Gift of Milton Sheingarten. Photo credit: Digital Image © The Museum of Modern Art / Licensed by SCALA / Art Resource, NY
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For Steve— with admiration and friendship.
evin Brownlee and M arina S. Brownlee
2. Philology and Poetry: The Petitcreiu Ekphrasis in Gottfried’s Tristan
M ar K C hinC a
3. Errant Glory: The Lineages of Peter Schlemihl
daniel h eller-r oazen
4. Syllogisms in Stone: Theophilus, Stephen, Abelard on the Walls of Notre-Dame de Paris
r howard Blo C h
5. Signs on the Wall: Painting History into Satire in the Roman de Fauvel of Paris, BnF MS fr. 146 105 n anC y F ree M an r eG alado
6. Burlesque Signs: Performance, Translation, and the Betrayal of Sexism 125 Jody e nder S
Lyric
7. François Villon and the Ages of Life 143 JaC queline C erquiG lini-toulet
8. The Alterity of Medieval Iberian Poetry 153 JoaC hi M Küpper
9. The Space in the Poem: Jordi de Sant Jordi, IX & XIV 185 a l Bert l loret
Alterity
10. Gaston Paris and Anatole France 207 M iC hel z in K
11. Fictionalizing Modernization Theory in Alejo Carpentier’s Los Pasos Perdidos: The Middle Ages in the Jungle 221 n adia a lt SC hul
12. Material and Spiritual Exchange: Examples from the Greek East and Latin West 241 M arina S. Brownlee
Reworkings
13. Boccaccio’s Decameron Novella I, 3
a ndrea S K a Blitz
14. Chaucer’s Early and Late Uses of the Two French Rose Authors 277 K evin Brownlee
15. Narrative and History in Paris, BnF, fr. 1553: The Roman de la Violette in the Context of a Late 13th-Century Anthology Manuscript 289 K athy K rauSe
16. Sapience, Prudence, and Theatricality: Preparing the Political Princess
Illustrations
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Figure 4.7 Theophilus, Notre-Dame, Paris
Figure 4.8 Theophilus, Notre-Dame, Paris
Figure 4.9 Saint Stephen’s Portal, Notre-Dame, Paris
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Figure 4.11 Saint Stephen’s Portal, Notre-Dame, Paris
Figure 4.13 Notre-Dame, Paris
Figure 4.14 Notre-Dame, Paris
Figure 4.15 Notre-Dame, Paris
Figure 4.16 Notre-Dame, Paris
Figure 4.17 Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, Notre-Dame, Paris
Figure 4.18 Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, Notre-Dame, Paris
Figure 5.1 Col. A, min. 52, Fortune, Fauvel, and Vaine Gloire; col. B, min. 55, Le Palais de la Cité; col. C, min. 56, Seine River Scene 107
Figure 5.2 (left) The Royal Motets; (right) col. A, min. 16, The Narrator Reading His Book; (right) col. B, min 17, Fauvel Enthroned 108
Figure 5.3 Fol. 12r, col. B, min. 18, Charnalité 110
Figure 5.4 Min. 61, Fauvel’s Wedding Night, The Chalivali 111
Figure 5.5 Min. 26, Fauvel in Colloquy with the Vices 112
Figure 5.6 (left) col. B; (right) col. A, Conditio / O Nacio / Mane; (left) col. C; (right) col. B, description of the wall painting
Figure 5.7 (left) The Creation of Eve; (right) Two Centaurs
Figure 5.8 Min. 46, Fortune, Fauvel, and Gilbert de Poitiers
Figure 6.1 Title page of the Discours facétieux des hommes qui font saller leurs femmes (1600)
Figure 15.1 Frontispiece, Paris, BnF, fr. 1553
Figure 15.2 Frontispiece, Richard de Saint Laurent’s De virtutibus (depicting Robert de Béthune, abbot of Clairmarias Abbey)
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Acknowledgments
We would like to acknowledge the contributors to this volume for their scholarly essays and for their deep-felt collegial recognition of Steve’s achievements. We also thank Cecilia Hsu and Samantha Pious for their essential editorial assistance. Our special thanks to Philip Dunshea, Senior Acquisitions Editor for the Humanities at Peter Lang, and to the fine work of the production team.
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Appointments
Academic
James M. Beall Professor Emeritus, July 1, 2010– present.
Research Professor, July 1, 2010–16.
James M. Beall Professor of French and Humanities, Johns Hopkins University, 1992–2010.
Edmund J. Kahn Distinguished Professor of Humanities, University of Pennsylvania, 1986– 92.
Professor of Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania, 1985– 86.
Edward Tuck Professor of French, Dartmouth College, 1984– 85.
Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College, 1968– 84.
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1965– 68.
Assistant Professor of French, University of California, Los Angeles, 1963– 65.
Administrative
Director of the School of Criticism and Theory, 1995–2000.
Chair, Department of German and Romance Languages, Johns Hopkins University, 2006– 09.
Chair, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, 1999–2006.
Chair, French Department, Johns Hopkins University, 1995– 99.
Sheridan Director (Interim), Johns Hopkins University Libraries, 1994– 95.
Director of the Louis Marin Center for the Study of French Classical and Contemporary Culture and Science, 1993–2009.
Director of Graduate Studies, French Department, Johns Hopkins University, 1992– 94.
Associate Dean for Humanities, University of Pennsylvania, 1988– 91.
Chair, Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania, 1987– 88.
Director of Graduate Studies (French), Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania, 1986– 87.
Chair, French and Italian, Dartmouth College, 1982– 85.
Chair, Romance Languages, Dartmouth College, 1974–77.
Chair, Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College, 1969–71, 1973–74, 1977–78, 1979– 82.
Chair, Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1967– 68.
Director of Graduate Studies, Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin, 1965– 67.
Other Appointments
Advisory Council, Schoenberg Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Philadelphia, 2014– present.
Visiting Professor, Dahlem Humanities Center, Freie Universität, Berlin, 2016–17.
Visiting Professor, Dahlem Humanities Center, Freie Universität, Berlin, 2009–10.
Visiting Professor, Albertus-Magnus University, Cologne, 2009–10.
Chair, Board of Directors, Council of Library Information Resources (CLIR), 2009–12.
Board of Directors, Council on Library Information Resources (CLIR), 2005– 08.
Visiting Professor, Historisches Kolleg, Munich, June 2003.
Faculty, School of Criticism and Theory, 1989, 1995, 2001, 2005.
Visiting Professor, University of Munich, June 2005.
Visiting Professor, Albertus Magnus University, Cologne, 2004.
Directeur d’Études Associé, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, November 2001.
Visiting Professor, École Normale Supérieure (rue d’Ulm), Paris, June 2001.
Visiting Professor, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, 1996–2001.
Visiting Professor, École Normale Supérieure (Ulm), Paris, November 1999.
Visiting Professor, Université de Paris 7, December–January 1997– 98.
Visiting Professor, École Normale Supérieure (Ulm), Paris, December 1996.
Visiting Professor, Dartmouth College, 1995– 96.
Directeur d’Études Associé, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, 1995.
Visiting Professor, Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania, Fall 1995.
External Advisory Board, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, 1993– 99.
Director, Andrew W. Mellon Summer Seminar in the Humanities, Johns Hopkins University, May 25–July 1, 1993, May 24–June 30, 1994.
Fellow, University of California Humanities Research Institute, Irvine, 1990.
Co-Director, NEH Summer Seminar, The Medieval Lyric, Mt. Holyoke College, 1987.
Academic Director, Dartmouth Institute for Executive Education, 1984– 85.
Visiting Professor, French, University of California, Irvine, 1985.
Faculty, Dartmouth Institute for Executive Education, 1980– 85.
Faculty, Comparative Literature Institute, New York University, 1979– 81, 1983.
Visiting Professor of Humanities, Arizona State University, 1981.
Visiting Professor of Humanities, Exeter University (England), 1980.
Visiting Professor of Humanities, Tel Aviv University, 1977.
Director, NEH Summer Seminar, Medieval Epic and Narrative, 1975, 1979.
Visiting Fellow, Medieval Institute, University of Toronto, 1971.
Grants, Awards
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Officer’s Grant for development of the Digital Library of Medieval Manuscripts at Johns Hopkins University, March 1–July 31, 2013, $50,000.
Andrew W. Mellon Emeritus Research Grant, October 2010–2013, $40,000.
Andrew W. Mellon Scholarly Communications Research Grant, “Innovative Scholarship for Digitized Medieval Manuscripts Delivered in an Interoperable Environment at Johns Hopkins University,” January 2011– March 2014, $346, 281.12.
Andrew Mellon Foundation Grant to continue the project for Digital Surrogates of the Roman de la Rose (with the Eisenhower Library of Johns Hopkins), 2006–2009, $719,000.
Distinguished Visiting Professor, Arnamagnæan Institute, University of Copenhagen, October 2003.
National Science Foundation Grant: “A Data Capture Framework and Testbed for Cultural Heritage Materials” (Rose Project), $497,827, 2002– 05.
ACLS Senior Fellowship, 2001– 02.
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, 1988.
James Russell Lowell Prize for the Outstanding Book, Modern Language Association, 1984.
NEH Senior Fellowship for Independent Study and Research, 1978–79.
American Council of Learned Societies Grant, 1968– 69.
American Philosophical Society Grants, 1968, 1977.
Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin, 1966– 67.
Samuel S. Fels Dissertation Fellowship, Yale University, 1962– 63.
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, Yale University, 1959– 60.
Rotary Foundation Fellowship (France), 1958– 59.
Editorial Work
Editor, Medieval Interventions: New Light on Traditional Thinking, Peter Lang Publishing, 2014– present.
Co-Founder, Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Culture, hybrid e-journal and print journal published by the Johns Hopkins University Press (Project Muse), first issue, Spring 2012.
Co-Editor, Re-Thinking Theory: Critical Discourses in the Humanities , a book series published at the Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008–14.
Principal Investigator, Digital Library of Medieval Manuscripts , Milton S. Eisenhower Library, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1996– present (URL: http:// dlmm.library.jhu.edu/en/digital-library-of-medieval-manu scripts/, accessed 1996).
Editor, MLN, French issue, 1995–2009.
Co-Editor, Parallax: Revisions of Culture and Society, a book series published at the Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987–2009.
Editorial Board, Publication of the Modern Language Association, 1988– 89.
Advisory Committee, PMLA , 1980– 84.
Editorial Board, Medievalia , 1975– 95.
Editorial Board, Medievalia et Humanistica , 1974– 85.
Editorial Board, Olifant, 1974– 83.
Editorial Committee, PMLA , 1969–74.
Advisory Editor, Appleton- Century Crofts Old French Texts Series, 1963– 68.
Conferences Organized
Some 45 international conferences on such topics as “The Secret Life of Texts” (with Marina Brownlee); “Europe and the Mediterranean World” (with Andreas Kablitz and Joachim Küpper); “Digital Approaches to Medieval Manuscripts”; “The Present
of the Religious Past” (with Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht and Joachim Küpper); “Poetic Knowledge in the Troubadours” (with Sarah Spence, Sarah Kay, Simon Gaunt, and Daniel Heller-Roazen); “Living Theory” (with Amanda Anderson); “Les Altérités au Moyen Âge”; and “The Medieval Miscellany” (with Sigfried Wenzel).
Books
Mind and Environment in Medieval Manuscripts. Series: Medieval Interventions: New Light on Traditional Thinking. New York, Bern, Berlin: Peter Lang Publishing, 2021.
From Parchment to Cyberspace: Medieval Literature in the Digital Age. Series: Medieval Interventions: New Light on Traditional Thinking. New York, Bern, Berlin: Peter Lang Publishing, 2016.
Romanesque Signs: Early Medieval Narrative and Iconography. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983.
James Russell Lowell Prize for Best Book , Modern Language Association, 1984. Paperback edition: New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985. Second edition, revised and expanded, Aurora, CO: The Davies Group, 2011.
Formulaic Diction and Thematic Composition in the “Chanson de Roland”. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1961. Reprinted in Classical and Medieval Literary Criticism , ed. D. Poupard and J.O. Kronik. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1987.
Books & Special Journal Issues Edited
Spectral Sea: Mediterranean Palimpsests in European Culture (with Joachim Küpper). Series: Medieval Interventions: New Light on Traditional Thinking, 3 New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2017.
Divisible Derridas (with Victor Taylor). Aurora, CO: Noeisis Press, The Davis Group, 2017.
De Theoria: Early Modern Studies in Memory of Eugene Vance, special issue of MLN, 127, no. 5 (December 2012).
The Long Shadow of Political Theology, special issue of MLN (October 2011).
Rethinking the Medieval Senses: Heritage / Fascinations / Frames. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
Mimesis: From Mirror to Method, Augustine to Descartes (with John D. Lyons) Second edition, Aurora, CO: The Davies Group, 2005.
Altérités du Moyen Âge, special issue of Littérature, 130, June 2003.
The Whole Book: Cultural Perspectives on the Medieval Miscellany (with Siegfried Wenzel). Recentiores Series. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996.
Medievalism and the Modernist Temper: On the Discipline of Medieval Studies (with Howard Bloch). Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Electronic re-publication, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
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Commentary as Cultural Artifact. Special issue, South Atlantic Quarterly (Fall 1992) (with Lee Patterson).
The New Medievalism Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. Electronic edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
Boundaries and Transgressions. Special issue, Stanford French Review (Fall–Winter 1990– 91).
The New Philology. Special issue, Speculum 65 (January 1990). Best Special Issue 1990 (Honorable Mention) International Awards Competition, Council of Editors of Learned Journals.
The Legitimacy of the Middle Ages. Special issue, Romanic Review (January 1988).
Images of Power: History/ Text/Discourse. Special issue, Yale French Studies (1986) (with Kevin Brownlee).
Medieval and Renaissance Theories of Representation: New Reflections (with Nancy J. Vickers). Special issue, Poetics Today (1984).
Mimesis: From Mirror to Method, Augustine to Descartes (with John D. Lyons). Hanover: University Press of New England, 1982.
The Troubadour Lyric: Texts and Contexts. Special issue, L’Esprit Créateur (1979).
The Meaning of Mannerism (with Franklin Robinson). Hanover: University Press of New England, 1972.
Comparatists at Work. Boston: Ginn-Blaisdell, 1968.
Guillaume de Lorris, “Le Roman de la Rose. ” New York: Appleton- Century- Crofts, 1967. Reprinted by Irvington Publishers, 1972.
René Wellek, Concepts of Criticism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1963.
The Songs of Bernard de Ventadorn (with A. Bartlett Giamatti et al.). Chapel Hill: North Carolina, 1962. Reprinted 1968.
Report
The Evidence in Hand: Report of the Task Force on the Artifact in Library Collections (Washington, D.C.: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2001). Reprinted continuously, translated into Arabic and Chinese.
Journal Founded
Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Culture. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. Co-founded with Nadia Altschul. Founded as an e-journal with simultaneous hardcopy publication.
Contributions to Books
“Castration as Exemplum: The Making of a Medieval Trope,” in Coups de Maître: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Literature in Honor of John D. Lyons New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2021.
Curriculum Vitae of Stephen G. Nichols
“Places of Thought: Environment, Perception, and Textual Identity in Medieval Vernacular Manuscripts,” in Futures of Medieval French Literature, eds. Jane Gilbert and Miranda Griffin. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell & Brewer, 2021.
“The Year 1000 and the Promise of a New Millennium through the White Mantle of Churches,” in The Cambridge Guide to the Architecture of Christianity, ed. Richard Etlin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Foreword, Literary Beginnings in the European Middle Ages, eds. Mark Chinca and Christopher Young. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
“Reading the Digital Roman de la Rose,” in Approaches to Teaching the “Roman de la Rose, ” eds. Daisy Delogu and Anne-Hélène Miller. New York: Modern Language Association, 2021.
“Language, Soul, & Body (Parts),” in Body and Spirit in the Middle Ages , ed. Gaia Gubbini, 79–87. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020.
“What’s in a Word? Language, Philosophy, & Satire in Troubadour Poetry,” in Revisioning French Culture, ed. Andrew Sobanet, 187–211. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2019.
“Greek Fathers, Roman Tyrants, Spanish Martyrs & the Invention of European Vernacular Language,” in Spectral Sea: Mediterranean Palimpsests in European Culture, eds. Stephen G. Nichols and Joachim Küpper, 69–90. New York, Bern, Berlin, Brussels, Vienna, Oxford, Warsaw: Peter Lang Publishing, 2017.
“Paris,” in Europe: A Literary History, 1348–1418 , ed. David Wallace, 1:11–42. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
“Pour une lecture dynamique des manuscrits médiévaux,” in De toutes Flours: Mélanges en l’honneur de Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2015.
“What is a Manuscript Culture?” in The Medieval Manuscript: Cultural Approaches, eds. Michael Johnston and Michael Van Dussen, 34–59 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
“Counter-figural Topics: Theorizing Romance with Eugene Vinaver and Eugene Vance,” in De Theoria: Early Modern Studies in Memory of Eugene Vance MLN, Comparative literature special issue (Supplement), 127, no. 5 (December 2012): S174– S216.
“New Challenges for New Medievalism,” in Rethinking the New Medievalism , eds. R. Howard Bloch, Alison Calhoun, Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, Joachim Küpper, and Jeanette Patterson, 12–38. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
“Political Grail: On Theological Fictionality,” in The Long Shadow of Political Theology, S12–S31. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
“Doomed Discourse: Debating Monotheisms Pre- and Post-Modern,” in The Long Shadow of Political Theology, S159–S179 Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
“Senses of the Imagination: Pseudo-Dionysius, Suger, and Saint-Denis,” in Romanistisches Jahrbuch 61, 223–39. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2010.
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“The Enigma of Wisdom: On Narrating Origins and Ends in 13th and 14th Century France,” in Fiktion und Fiktionalität in den Literaturen des Mittelaters , eds. Ursula Peters and Rainer Warning, 451–70. Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2009.
“Humanities Scholarship and Globalization: Threat? Opportunity? or NonSequitur?” in Zur Situation der Geisteswissenschaften in Forschung und Lehre: Eine Bestandsaufnahme aus der universitären Praxis , 42–52. Berlin: FU, 2009.
“ ‘The Pupil of Your Eye’: Vision, Language and Poetry in Thirteenth- Century Paris,” in Rethinking the Medieval Senses: Heritage/Fascinations/Frames, eds. Stephen G. Nichols, Andreas Kablitz, and Alison Calhoun, 286–307. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
Foreword, Aucassin et Nicolette, ed. and trans. Jean Jaures. Mellin Press, 2008.
“Rethinking Texts Through Contexts: The Case of Le Roman de la Rose,” in Text und Kontext: Fallstudien und theoretische Begründungen einer kulturwissenschaftlich angeleiteten Mediävistik , ed. Jan-Dirk Müller, 245–70. Munich: Oldenbourg Wissenshaftsverlag, 2007.
“The Medieval Author: An Idea whose Time hadn’t Come?” in The Author in Medieval French Literature, ed. Virginie Greene, 77–102. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2006.
“Millennial Politics in 19th- Century and 11th- Century France,” in Time and the Literary, Selected Papers of the English Institute, ed. Karen Newman et al., 183–209. New York: Routledge, 2002.
“Urgent Voices: The Vengeance of Images in Medieval Poetry,” in Text und Kultur: Mittelalterliche Literatur 1150–1450 , ed. Ursula Peters, 403–13. Stuttgart/ Weimar: Verlag J.B. Metzler, 2001.
“Considérations littéraires et philosophiques sur l’historiographie ‘post-figurative’ à la Restauration, 1815–1830,” in Le Bonheur de la littérature, eds. Jacques Neefs and Christine Montalbetti, 161–80. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2005.
“Le Nom de la mélancolie : l’exemple du Roman de la Rose,” in De vrai humain entendement, eds. Yasmina Foehr-Janssens and Jean-Yves Tilliette, 139–56. Geneva: Droz, 2005.
“Gaston Paris et les sens de l’histoire,” in Le Moyen Âge de Gaston Paris: la poésie à l’épreuve de la philologie, ed. Michel Zink, 161–73. Paris: Odile Jacob, 2004.
“ Troubadour Crusade Poetry,” in France and the Holy Land: Frankish Culture at the End of the Crusades , 22–42. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
“« Tel songe songier »: Dreaming and Naming in the Roman de la Rose,” in « Ce est li fruis selonc la letre »: Mélanges offerts à Charles Méla , eds. Olivier Collet, Yasmina Foehr-Janssens, and Sylviane Messerli, 493–510. Paris: Champion, 2002.
“Circa 1400, The Culture of the Book in Nuremberg,” in New History of German Literature, ed. H.U. Gumbrecht et al., 158–64. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. (With Tracy Adams.)
“The End of Aura?” in Mapping Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Digital Age, eds. Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht and Michael Marrinan, 256–68. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003.
