In Translating "Clergie", Claire Waters explores texts in French verse and prose from England and the Continent that respond to the educational imperative implicit in the Fourth Lateran Council's mandate that individuals be responsible for their own salvation. These texts return repeatedly to the moment of death and individual judgment to emphasize the importance of the process of teaching and to remind teacher and learner of their common fate.
The texts' focus on death was not solely a means of terrifying an audience but enabled lay learners to envision confrontations or...
In Translating "Clergie", Claire Waters explores texts in French verse and prose from England and the Continent that respond to the educatio...
Composed in French in twelfth-century England, these twelve brief verse narratives centre on the joys, sorrows, and complications of love affairs in a context that blends the courtly culture of tournaments and hunting and otherworldly elements such as self-steering boats, shape-shifting lovers, and talking animals.
Composed in French in twelfth-century England, these twelve brief verse narratives centre on the joys, sorrows, and complications of love affairs in a...
