Meaning and Its Objects (Yale French Studies, no. 110)

YALE FRENCH STUDIES, Number 110:

Meaning and Its Objects. Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance France 

Edited by Margaret Burland, David LaGuardia, and Andrea Tarnowski

Table of Contents:

Gifts and Exchange

 
- Andrew Cowell
Swords, Clubs and Relics: Performance, Identity and the Sacred

 
- Deborah McGrady
’Tout son païs m’abandonna’: Reinventing Patronage in Machaut’s Fonteinne amoureuse

 
- Margaret Burland
Narrative Objects and Living Stories in Galeran de Bretagne

 
 
Images and Portraits

 
- Peggy McCracken
Miracles, Mimesis, and the Efficacy of Images

 
- Alexa Sand
Vision and the Portrait of Jean le Bon

- Cynthia Brown
Books in Performance: The Parisian Entry (1504) and Funeral (1514) of Anne of Brittany

 
- Ann Rosalind Jones
Habits, Holdings, Heterologies: Populations in Print in a 1562 Costume Book

 
- George Hoffmann
Montaigne’s Nudes: The Lost Tower Paintings Rediscovered

 
 
Plans and Procedures

 
- Jeff Persels
Taking the Piss out of Pantagruel: Urine and Micturition in Rabelais

 
- David LaGuardia
Interrogation and the Performance of Truth in the Registre Criminel du Châtelet de Paris

 
- Andrea Tarnowski
Material Examples: Philippe de Mézières’s Order of the Passion

 
- Michael Randall
Sword and Subject in Du Haillan’s Histoire de France (1576)