Matières à débat, La notion de matière littéraire dans la littérature médiévale “La “Matière” d’enfer, sénéfiance syncrétique et polyphonie littéraire” Résumé Dans l’Occident chrétien du Ve au XIIIe siècle, l’univers infernal inspire une littérature étonnamment variée. Elle est motivée par les théologiens qui tentent de rationaliser un espace théorique, que le canon laisse de côté […]
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http://dfmfa.hypotheses.org/2392 SCRIPTO Workshop Paris 2017: Culture écrite carolingienne / Carolingian Writing Culture Dans la société carolingienne, l’écriture est une référence constante de l’élite intellectuelle et il n’est guère surprenant qu’à cette époque les deux sens du mot soient liés de façon étroite. Le cours offre une introduction aux stratégies textuelles et visuelles du haut Moyen […]
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Society for French Studies, 58th Annual Conference, 3 – 5 July 2017, University of Durham. La femme trans-fuge, regards médiévaux sur la trans-identité Armed hybrid’. BL, MS Harley 5648, f.13v Ce panel se propose d’aborder les trans-formations identitaires, par transgressions vestimentaires, sociale ou morale, dans une série de fictions de la fin du XIIe et […]
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Fief is a game of dynastic ambition, where players assume the roles of nobles in the 14th century Kingdom of France.
Academy Games, which specializes in history-related board games, is making an English-language version of a popular French game in which players assume the roles of nobles in the 15th century Kingdom of France. They can gain power through secular and ecclesiastical politics, and be able to become the power-behind-the-throne for the King or Pope.
The game fun can range from getting good harvests to raise the church tithe, or being hit by the plague or having a peasant uprising!
The game-makers have easily surpassed their goal of $20,000 and are using the extra money raised to make additional improvements to the game. Those who pledge certain amounts will recieve an advance copy of the game, which is due to be ready by June 2014. You can get more details…
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Improve your French, for free and online,
RFI Mission Paris, menez l’enquête- Free Web Site
Only Eva can save France. But who are her allies? And who are her enemies? From a Parisian cafe she follows a messenger right into a blast at a railway station. Is it a trap? And what do the messenger’s dying words mean?
From a Parisian café with a surly waiter, Eva runs after a mysterious contact and ends up in the chaotic aftermath of an explosion. Has someone tried to kill her? Instead of sipping her espresso in peace, she finds herself facing danger. She gets mixed up in a world of mysterious codes and a race against time. The messenger… le messager…has told her the first clues for her assignment…aisle a, row 2… and a number code 1-8-5-2. She’s the only person who can save France from a disaster.
RFI Une aventure africaine…
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French Medieval FoodBread, accompanied by meat and wine, was the centrepiece of the medieval diet. Vegetables were more for peasants, both in reality and imagination. Not all foods had the same cultural value. Each had its place within a hierarchy extending from heaven to earth.
Cereals were the basic food, primarily as bread. Oats were eaten as porridge, mainly in the Atlantic regions of Europe. By the end of the Middle Ages, wheat had become the most sought-after cereal. Rye was cultivated only in the roughest soils, whilst millet was a speciality prominent in the south west of France. A recent arrival, buckwheat, began spreading through Brittany.
Vegetables were a daily part of the peasant’s diet. Cabbage, in particular, was king of medieval gardens. In towns, itinerant vendors sold green vegetables (spinach, leeks and cabbage) used for making purées and soups.
Fruit was considered fit for the nobility…
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Alors, la semaine prochaine, nous allons lire quelques fables surnaturelles qui s’inspirent de croyances celtes…. préparez-vous avant la classe
I made a florilege of resources from where to start.
Source: Bettina Arnold
Lecture given at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, October 31, 2001
Night of the spirits; Feast of the Dead; New Year’s Eve; the year’s turning; Calends of winter; Summer’s End; one of the “joints of the year”; beginning of the barren time; day of divination; festival of the harvest; doorway into the new year; Mischief Night; Punky Night; Samhain; Nos Calan gaeaf; All Hallow’s Eve. These are all descriptions of one of the most important seasonal festivals of the Celtic world, the night of October 31, this evening, Halloween. In Wales it is known as Hollantide, in Cornwall Allantide, and in Brittany Kala-Goanv. Samhain’s equivalent on the Christian calendar is All Saints’…
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Now you can access the manuscript of Beowulf
The manuscript of Beowulf, the greatest poem in the Old English language, can now be viewed online for the first time. Made around the year 1000, most likely during the reign of King Æthelred the Unready (978-1016), this manuscript committed to parchment a tale that (in some modern scholars’ opinions) had been passed down for centuries, between generations of storytellers.
The opening words of Beowulf, beginning “Hwæt” (“Listen!”): London, British Library, MS Cotton Vitellius A XV, f. 132r.
In its present state, the poem, named after its hero Beowulf, contains more than 3,000 lines, and divides conventionally into three comparatively equal sections: Beowulf’s struggle with the monster, Grendel; the revenge of Grendel’s mother; and Beowulf’s final contest with a dragon, which was guarding a hoard of treasure. What marks out Beowulf is the gripping and…
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Bonjour,
La semaine prochaine, nous commencerons la lecture d’Yvain et le Lion,
je souhaite que vous vous imprégniez de l’esprit du texte de Chrétien au travers de la visite de ce musée virtuel.
Yvain, le Chevalier au Lion, by Chrétien de Troyes
In one of his King Arthur stories the famous French poet Chrétien de Troies tells about Yvain, the Knight with the Lion. During the year 1172 or 1173 he compiled the story from several legends and traditions.
The Bibliothèque Nationale de France is always innovative when it is about toreconcile Technologies of the internet and ancient manuscripts.
The online exhibition of manuscripts, from History to Literature, presents manuscripts to be clicked through, with audio coments, video presentations a,d pedagogical activities. A must to teach Medieval Literature!
Students can leaf through the entire manuscript and enjoy the enluminures, the hand writing… in the room of the livres à feuilleter.
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Bonjour,
Dans cette section nous allons étudier quelques notions qui vont nous permettre de mettre un contexte autour de nos lectures.
In a spin: the mysterious dancing epidemic of 1518
In 1518, one of the strangest epidemics in recorded history struck the city of Strasbourg. Hundreds of people were seized by an irresistible urge to dance, hop and leap into the air. In houses, halls and public spaces, as fear paralyzed the city and the members of the elite despaired, the dancing continued with mindless intensity. Seldom pausing to eat, drink or rest, many of them danced for days or even weeks. And before long, the chronicles agree, dozens were dying from exhaustion. What was it that could have impelled as many as 400 people to dance, in some cases to death?
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