Philology,
Church History, text- and manuscript-studies and
exegesis, and other sciences ancillary to
History are my
field of investigation.
ANGLO-NORMAN LITERATURE/
OTHER PROJECTS :Blanche
de Castille: Literature and cultural
hegemony in Europe during the early thirteenth to the late
fourteenth century //
"Tristan's last metamorphosis" (essay)/
ITALIAN LITERATURE
(2 Projects) //
MEDIEVAL LATIN
LITERATURE
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«Not
only do John of Salisbury, Walter Map, Nigel Wireker,
Thomas Becket and Gerald of Wales share with Marie a
common obsession with the psychological causes and
social effects of envy, but the terms they use are so
similar as to seem traceable less to the spiit of the
age, especially since the themeis less prevalent in
France than in Anglo-Normandy, than to a shared social
milieu. [...] What I am suggesting is not only that the
dates of Hue de Rotelande's literary activity, like
those of John of Salisbury and Walter Map, coincide with
those of Marie, but that the coincidence of interest
[...] sets a context for our undestanding of Marie
[...]».
R. H. Bloch, The anonymous Marie de France, Chicago
2003, pp.156-157.
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Love and Monastic Ideal at the Abbey of Bec. The Quest for the Author of the "Epistolae familiares de caritate": Alain de Lille or Henry of Préaux?
In
2009, in an article published in the Cahiers de
Civisation Médiévale, I had entertained serious
doubts concerning the hypothesis formulated in
2003 by Françoise Hudry on the identity of the
author of the Epistolæ familiares, found in
Paris Bibliothèque Nationale MS Latin 13575. The
codex, a late twelfth-century compendium, had
already been briefly described by Barthélemy
Hauréau. The letter collection has been
available to Latin readers since its edition
and publication by Jean Leclercq in 1953 under
the title ‘Les lettres familières d’un moine du
Bec’. Neither Hauréau nor Leclercq claimed to
identify the letters' author or recipients,
although both recognised that they were of
monastic, almost certainly Bec, provenance. In
1972 Palémon Glorieux suggested that these
letters showed certain resemblances to the work
of Alan of Lille, whose writings are relatively
well known but whose career remains to a large
extent mysterious. F. Hudry's new edition of the
letters seeks not only to prove the conjectures
of Glorieux but even to extend them beyond any
previously accepted bounds. The historical and
philological rectifications that I suggested in
my article were such as to invalidate a whole
series of forced interpretations and
biographical guesses proposed by Françoise Hudry
on Alan of Lille. By pursuing my researches, I
have arrived at new results, which seem to allow
us to undermine the authors’s anonymity and
appear to exclude that the Epistolæ familiares
were written by the "Doctor universalis". IThe
results of my research will appear in a volume I
have assembled together with my colleague Carlo
Chiurco. |