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University of Wales Press

Date de parution

28 mars 2017

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9781786830647

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

4 Mo

Le Bone Florence of Rome　is a Middle English tail-rhyme romance whose unique copy dates to the late fifteenth century. An analogue of Chaucer’s　Man of Law’s Tale, it　follows the adventures of a heroine who survives multiple exiles, sexual harassments and false accusations. At the same time, it explores such issues as the abuse of power, the stakes of global conflict, women’s place in society and their control over their destiny, all of which are treated in significantly different ways from the Constance story and other medieval tales of calumniated women. This fresh edition is accompanied by a complete line-by-line translation, which makes this text　accessible to readers at all levels. Its introduction offers a comprehensive analysis of the themes, ideologies and literary relationships of the romance, together with new insights into its local connections and a detailed description of its manuscript context.

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Publié par

University of Wales Press

Date de parution

28 mars 2017

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9781786830647

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

4 Mo

N E W C E N T U R Y C H A U C E R

Le Bone Florence of Rome

N E W C E N T U R Y C H A U C E R

Series Editors Professor Helen Fulton, University of Bristol Professor Ruth Evans, Saint Louis University

Editorial Board Professor Ardis Butterﬁeld, Yale University Dr Orietta Da Rold, University of Cambridge Dr David Matthews, University of Manchester

The works of Geoffrey Chaucer are the most-studied literary texts of the Middle Ages, appearing on school and university syllabuses throughout the world. From The Canterbury Talesthrough the dream visions and philosophical works toTroilus and Criseyde, the translations and short poems, Chaucer’s writing illuminates the fourteenth century and its intellectual traditions. Taken together with the work of his contemporaries and successors in the ﬁfteenth century, the Chaucerian corpus arguably still deﬁnes the shape of late-medieval literature.

For twentieth-century scholars and students, the study of Chaucer and the late Middle Ages largely comprised attention to linguistic history, historicism, close reading, biographical empiricism and traditional editorial practice. While all these approaches retain some validity, the new generations of twenty-ﬁrst-century students and scholars are conversant with the digital humanities and with emerging critical approaches – the ‘affective turn’, new materialisms, the history of the book, sexuality studies, global literatures, and the ‘cognitive turn’. Importantly, today’s readers have been trained in new methodologies of knowledge retrieval and exchange. In the age of instant information combined with multiple sites of authority, the meaning of the texts of Chaucer and his age has to be constantly renegotiated.

The series New Century Chaucer is a direct response to new ways of reading and analysing medieval texts in the twenty-ﬁrst century. Purpose-built editions and translations of individual texts, accompanied by stimulating studies introducing the latest research ideas, are directed towards contemporary scholars and students whose training and research interests have been shaped by new media and a broad-based curriculum. Our aim is to publish editions, with translations, of Chaucerian and related texts alongside focused studies which bring new theories and approaches into view, including comparative studies, manuscript production, Chaucer’s post-medieval reception, Chaucer’s contemporaries and successors, and the historical context of late-medieval literary production. Where relevant, online support includes images and bibliographies that can be used for teaching and further research.

The further we move into the digital world, the more important the study of medieval literature becomes as an anchor to previous ways of thinking that paved the way for modernity and are still relevant to post-modernity. As the works of Chaucer, his contemporaries and his immediate successors travel into the twenty-ﬁrst century, New Century Chaucer will provide, we hope, a pathway towards new interpretations and a spur to new readers.

N E W C E N T U R Y C H A U C E R

Le Bone Florence of Rome

A Critical Edition and Facing Translation of a Middle English Romance Analogous to Chaucer’s Man of Law’s Tale

Edited and translated with introduction and notes by J O N A T H A N S T A V S K Y

UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS CARDIFF

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any material form (including photocopying or storing it in any medium by electronic means and whether or not transiently or incidentally to some other use of this publication) without the written permission of the copyright owner except in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Applications for the copyright owner’s written permission to reproduce any part of this publication should be addressed to the University of Wales Press, 10 Columbus Walk, Brigantine Place, Cardiff CF10 4UP.

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British Library CataloguinginPublication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

ISBN eISBN

978-1-78683-062-3 978-1-78683-063-0 978-1-78683-064-7

The right of Jonathan Stavsky to be identiﬁed as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77, 78 and 79 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

Typeset by Marie Doherty Printed by CPI Antony Rowe, Melksham

In loving memory of my grandmothers Malka Stavsky (1921–90) and Ethel Radowsky (1912–2001) and my uncle Harry Israel Hurwitz (1935 –2001)

Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations

CONTENTS

Introduction with Notes and Bibliography

Le Bone Florence of Romewith Explanatory Notes and Textual Notes

Appendix 1: Marginalia Appendix 2: Middle English Words and Idioms Discussed in the Explanatory and Textual Notes Appendix 3: Names and Places

Index to the Introduction and Explanatory Notes

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

or eight years now, I have been preoccupied with stories like the F one told in this book. My dissertation ‘Susanna, Constance, Griselda: Righteous Women on Trial in Medieval English and European Literature’ (The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 2013), written under the supervi-sion of Lawrence Besserman, has branched out into multiple projects, incurring far too many debts to be mentioned in a single place. I am grateful to the Ph.D. Honours Program of the Hebrew University Faculty of Humanities and the Rotenstreich Fellowship for Outstanding Doctoral Students in the Humanities for the support that allowed me to devote myself to it. Earlier stages of my research onLe Bone Florence of Romebeneﬁted from criticism offered by Lawrence Besserman, Alastair Minnis and Jon Whitman. I also wish to thank Sara Petrosillo for the oppor-tunity to share it at the ICMS in 2012. After completing my doctoral work, I spent a year as a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. This experience has contributed a great deal to my thinking about manuscript culture, without which the present edition would not have been conceivable. It is a pleasure to acknowledge the enduring generosity and support of my hosts, David Wallace and Rita Copeland. Very special thanks go to Leona Toker for her perennially wise guidance. The greater part of this project was carried out during my term as a postdoctoral fellow at the Mandel Scholion Interdisciplinary Research Centre in the Humanities and Jewish Studies of the Hebrew University. Throughout my stay at Mandel Scholion, its administrative staff and director Daniel Schwartz did their best to maintain a warm, stimulating

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