The Ring, the Sword, the Fancy Dress, and the Posthumous Child: Background to the Element of Heroic Biography in Marie de France's<i>Yonec</i>

Boyd, Matthieu

doi:10.3200/rqtr.55.3.205-230

Romance Quarterly

2008

DOI: 10.3200/rqtr.55.3.205-230

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The Ring, the Sword, the Fancy Dress, and the Posthumous Child: Background to the Element of Heroic Biography in Marie de France'sYonec

Matthieu Boyd

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Melion and the Wolves of Ireland

Boyd

2009

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When the werewolf protagonist of the Old French lay of Melion recruits a band of other wolves in order to lay waste to Ireland, this activity-unique to Melion-is informed by the medieval Irish view of dı´berg '(wolf-like) brigandage'. These aspects of Melion's setting and plot are major developments in the medieval werewolf tale most famously attested in Marie de France's Bisclavret. The case of Melion has profound implications for understanding Celtic influence on Francophone literature in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.The Old French lay of Melion 1 has the same basic plot as Marie de France's Bisclavret, 2 ''but significant alterations in plot and tone suggest the working of other

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Melion and the Wolves of Ireland

Boyd

2009

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The Space of Epistemology in Marie de France's 'Yonec'

Chaganti

2010

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Marie de France's twelfth-century lai 'Yonec' offers a model of epistemology in which knowledge entails acts of forgetting over space. Through the course of its narrative, 'Yonec' exposes the limitations inherent in deriving knowledge from static memorials. It chooses instead an expansive and dynamic epistemology in which forgetting -experienced in the movement across space -leads to deeper forms of memory and knowledge than are possible in static memorials alone. The lai's understanding of knowledge relies not only upon the symbolic space of the mind, but also upon the material and political space of its Celtic world. 'Yonec' responds to Henri Lefebvre's caution to consider the material exigencies of space when attempting to use it conceptually or metaphorically. In acknowledging the role of space's materiality in its symbolic meanings, 'Yonec' also offers a suggestive perspective on forgetting and knowing as spatial, rather than temporal, processes.

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The Languages of British Literature and the Stakes of Anthologies

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2013

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Recent scholarship has emphasized the multilingualism of the medieval British Isles, but this has yet to translate into a fully integrated teaching practice free of anachronisms or stereotypes, particularly in the treatment of Irish and Welsh literature. This article suggests both theoretical and practical responses to this situation. Appendices offer specific guidance for teaching the Celtic-language texts now in the major anthologies of English and British literature.

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The Ring, the Sword, the Fancy Dress, and the Posthumous Child: Background to the Element of Heroic Biography in Marie de France'sYonec

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