Notes on Contributors

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Karen G. Casebier is an Assistant Professor of Modern Languages at Saint Francis University. She received her Ph.D. in French from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a dissertation entitled “The Conflation of the Sacred and the Profane in Thirteenth-Century Devotional Literature: Generic Fluidity in Old French Vernacular Hagiography and Manuscripts of La Vie des Pères.” Her research focuses on the intersection of the sacred and profane in Old French literature, including hagiography, the fabliaux, and Old French romance. In addition, she maintains a strong interest in the translatio studii. More recently, she has begun to explore bestiary symbolism in Old French hagiography and courtly romance, and she is particularly interested in the use of imaginary animals in Old French literature. She has published articles on Chrétien de Troyes, Christine de Pizan, and Antoine de la Sale. Tania M. Colwell is a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University, Canberra. She received her Ph.D. in Medieval Studies (history and literature) at the Australian National University in 2009. Her dissertation, entitled “Reading Mélusine: Romance Manuscripts and their Audiences, c.1380– c.1530),” explores the reception of the prose and poetic Mélusine romances in the later Middle Ages and the relationship between the manuscripts and the political and cultural lives of their patrons, owners, and audiences. She has published articles on Mélusine, Richard III, Robin Hood, and depictions of anomalous masculine bodies in Middle English romances; her current research interests include female lordship and constructions of dynastic identity with particular reference to cognatic lineage. Aileen A. Feng is an Assistant Professor of Italian and a faculty affiliate in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona. She received her Ph.D. in Italian Studies from the University of California, Berkeley in 2008. Her research interests include literature and politics in the Italian Middle Ages and Renaissance, the Italian lyric tradition, especially Petrarch, fifteenth-century neo-Latin humanism, Petrarchism in Italy and France, and the Querelle des femmes. She is currently working on a book pro- ject on political “Petrarchism” that analyzes several strands of neo-Latin and Renaissance vernacular humanism directly indebted to the intertwining of the political and the aesthetic in the works of fourteenth-century poet Francis Petrarch. 250 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Emily C. Francomano is an Associate Professor of Spanish and Director of the Comparative Literature Program at Georgetown University. She is the author of Wisdom and Her Lovers in Medieval and Early Modern Hispanic Literature (Palgrave Macmillan 2008), as well as articles on Cárcel de amor, the Libro de buen amor, Castilian vernacular Bibles, Medieval Romance (Catalan, French, and Spanish), and Iberian Hagiography. Her current research revolves around the multiple translations and international success of Spanish Sentimental Romances in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Jamie Friedman is an Assistant Professor of English at Westmont College. She received her Ph.D. in Medieval Studies at Cornell University in 2010 with a dissertation entitled “Dispersed Selves, Excessive Flesh: Embodied Identity Flows in Three Middle English Narratives.” She has taught previously at Cornell, Whitworth University, and Gonzaga University. Her teaching and research interests include Middle English narrative; Arthurian literature; eccentric bodies; gender, racial/religious, sexual, and identity constructions; feminist, gender, and sexualities studies; and medieval women writers and readers. Her present research examines the spaces of aurality in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Brînduşa E. Grigoriu is an Associate Professor of French Literature at the University “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” in Iasi, Romania. She received her Ph.D. with high honors jointly from the University of Iasi and the University of Poitiers in 2010. She is the author of a book entitled Amor sans desonor: une pragmatique pour Tristan et Yseut, an elaborated version of her thesis (forthcom- ing from Classiques Garnier). She has published articles on Tristan, Lancelot, Mélusine, and the trouvères. Her current research focuses on the textual and visual representations of the philter in the manuscript tradition of the Prose Romances of Tristan. Sharon C. Mitchell received her Ph.D. from the Ohio State University, where she is currently a lecturer. Her research interests are conduct manuals and the performing arts, particularly the connections between the two. She is currently working on a monograph about the performance of virtue in late medieval England and France. Jeff Rider is a professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Medieval Studies at Wesleyan University. His work focuses on the history and literature of northern Europe from the eleventh through the thirteenth centuries. His recent publications include God’s Scribe: The Historiographical Art of Galbert of Bruges (2001), an edition of Walter of Thérouanne’s “Vita Karoli comitis Flandri/” et “Vita domni Ioannis Morinensis episcopi,” Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Medieualis, 217 (2006), a volume of essays, coedited with Alan Murray, on Galbert of Bruges and the Historiography of Medieval Flanders (2009), and a volume of essays, coedited with Benoît Tock, on La Cité et le diocèse de Thérouanne au Moyen Age (2010). He is currently at work on English translations of Galbert of Bruges’s De multro, traditione et occisione gloriosi Karoli comitis Flandriarum and Walter of Thérouanne’s Vita Karoli comitis Flandrie, and an NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 251 edition of the thirteenth-century Lai du conseil. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Commission, the American Philosophical Society, the Rotary Foundation, and the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts. Victoria Rivera-Cordero is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Seton Hall University. She holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University in Spanish Literature (2005) as well as a Master of Arts in Comparative Literature from the University of Paris III—Sorbonne Nouvelle. She has published on renaissance, medieval, and contemporary Spanish literature. She previously taught at Hamilton College and Swarthmore College. Jennifer Rudin studied German Language and Literature, History of Art, and Science of Media and Communications at the University of Basel. She also studied piano, voice, and drama at the Conservatory of Basel and has a Diploma of Advanced Studies in Neuropsychology from the University of Zurich. She currently works as a teacher of German and Music at the Gymnasium am Münsterplatz in Basel and performs regularly as a classical singer and pianist. Hannie van Horen Verhoosel studied Dutch language and literature, Occitan language, and musicology at the Universities of Nijmegen and Utrecht. She received her Ph.D. at the Radboud University in Nijmegen in 2007 for a dissertation on the songs of the trobairitz: “Want in Minnezaken ben ik jou de baas.” Her publications include two articles on the trobairitz: “De zang van de trobairitz,” Jaarboek voor vrouwengeschiedenis 23 (2003), 31–54, and “A bona trobairis: Hoofse chansons van vrouwelijke troubadours in het 12e en13e eeuwse zuiden van Frankrijk,” Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies 12.2 (2009), 15–27. She is currently working on a Dutch translation of the courtly songs and dialogue poems of the trobairitz. She is also interested in male and female representations in the Cantigas de Santa Maria by Alfonso X El Sabio. INDEX Page numbers in italics indicate illustrations. Abu-Lughod, Lila, 20n26 Allen, Prudence, 238 Actaeon (character, Greek almsgiving, 90–1 mythology), 220n33 amador, 144n37 action(s), 8, 38, 42, 92–3, 103–4, 113, see also poet-lovers 195 Amanieu des Escas, ensenhamen of, disparity between thoughts and, 148, 155n3 94, 96 Amazon women, 204, 205–9, 215, emotions’ relationship to, 16n4, 218nn10–11, 219n12, 219n17 18n15, 59 amic (males in trobairitz songs), trobairitz terms for, 131–2, 141 131–2, 141 see also agency reproaching, 130, 134, 135–6 Admiraçión operum Dey (Wonder at the suffering caused by, 135, 138 Works of God, Cartagena), 180, Amor, 137–8, 141, 150–1 188–94 amor purus, see love, pure adultery, 241n6 Amos, Mark Addison, 86 Nogarola accused of, 227 amour propre, 68 in Philomena, 27, 31, 32, 33 see also love in Prose Romance of Tristan, 53, 54, amplificatio, 47n12 60, 61, 73, 80n68, 82n101 see also rhetoric Aelred of Rievaulx, Abbot, 9 Amunna (Oria’s mother, aesthetic experience(s), 18n18, 60, Vida de Santa Oria), 159 245n43 burial of, 171–2, 176n24 affection, 170 grief of, 167, 168, 170 displays of, 2, 86, 88, 103 intercessions by, 171–2 see also love role in poem, 160–1, 162, 165, Agatha, Saint, 163 169–70, 176nn21–22 agency, 6, 220n23 sanctity of, 171, 172–3 Amazonian, 206–7, 208 similarities to Virgin Mary, 170–1 Emelye’s, 210, 211 visions of, 160, 161, 167, 168–9, see also action(s) 171, 173 Aimeric de Peguilhan, anarchy, in Philomena, 40, 41, 43, 45 songs of, 137 see also society, Alfonso XI, King (Castile), 181 civilized vs. barbaric Alisoun (character, Miller’s Tale), 204 Anderson, William S., 49n45 254 INDEX Andreas Capellanus, 224, 241n6, in trobairitz/troubadour songs, 244n28 132–3, 141 anger audiences in Philomena, 29, 36, 37, 42, 44 for conduct manuals, 86, 91, 104 in Prose Romance of Tristan, 67, 71, emotionologies of, 4–5, 6, 8,

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