Beast satire with songs.
Category Archives: medieval French literature
The Tournament at Chauvency
My review of the proceedings of a conference on Le Tournoi de Chauvency in the Douce 308 MS in the Bodleian Library, Oxford was just published in French Studies.
Gautier de Coinci’s Miracles de Nostre Dame
Links to online sources for Gautier’s magnum opus.
The vows of the peacock
Privat vs. Margue on the significance of the peacock in a 14thC poem.
The wonders of Gallica: some troubadour and trouvère sources
The online resource Gallica is adding stuff all the time — it’s hard to keep up. This post is about their coverage of some of the main medieval monophonic song books.[NB: now updated to include sources outside Gallica!]
Elizabeth Eva Leach 