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Christopher Callahan

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Troubadour Songs In Trouvére Codices: Mouvance In The Transmission Of Courtly Lyric, Christopher Callahan Dec 2011

Troubadour Songs In Trouvére Codices: Mouvance In The Transmission Of Courtly Lyric, Christopher Callahan

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Thibaut De Champagne And Disputed Attributions: The Case Of Mss Bern, Burgerbibliothek 389 (C) And Paris, Bnf Fr. 1591(R), Christopher Callahan Dec 2009

Thibaut De Champagne And Disputed Attributions: The Case Of Mss Bern, Burgerbibliothek 389 (C) And Paris, Bnf Fr. 1591(R), Christopher Callahan

Christopher Callahan

This essay examines the manuscript context of the songs of Thibaut de Champagne that were either marginalized in or excluded from A. Wallensköld’s 1925 edition. An evaluation of the placement and ordering of Thibaut’s songs in the codices, as well as their rubrics and melodies, affords an understanding of the construction of these chansonniers, obscured through decades of reliance on print editions. A rapid scrutiny of these linguistically (C) and musically (R) marginal manuscripts both reveals how little we know about the transmission of trouvère lyric and underscores the importance of a material-philological approach for all future editions of the …

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Christine De Pizan's Dit De La Pastoure: Pastoral Poetry, And The Poetics Of Loss, Christopher Callahan Dec 2005

Christine De Pizan's Dit De La Pastoure: Pastoral Poetry, And The Poetics Of Loss, Christopher Callahan

Christopher Callahan

Christine de Pizan is the foremost woman of letters in the medieval French tradition, and the first to live by her penl. Her output contains some thirty titles equally distributed between verse and prose2. Two cycles of love lyrics, the Cent balades (composed between 1399 and 1402), and the Cent balades d'amant et de dame (1410), frame the bulk of her activity, during which she produced, focusing mainly on the theme of love, a series of dits (verse narratives) and debate poems, and made a significant epistolary contribution to the famous querelle over the misogynist
views of Jean de Meun's …

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Lyric Discourse And Female Vocality: On The Unsilencing Of Silence, Christopher Callahan Dec 2001

Lyric Discourse And Female Vocality: On The Unsilencing Of Silence, Christopher Callahan

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Hybrid Discourse And Performance In The Old French Pastourelle, Christopher Callahan Dec 2001

Hybrid Discourse And Performance In The Old French Pastourelle, Christopher Callahan

Christopher Callahan

When the pastourelle appears in French in the late twelfth century, some forty years after Marcabru's pioneering "L'autrier jost una sebissa," it is distinguished from its Occitan predecessors1 by two discursive features that have both made its typological classification a delicate issue2 and assured its longevity. The French pastourelle was first of all a pioneer in the mixing of social registers. Its characteristic confrontation between aristocratic narrator and shepherdess intersects both thematically and temporally with Andreas Capellanus's De amore3 and the two reflect, as Michel Zink has argued,4 preoccupations which were peculiar to France. Indeed, the pastorela did not acquire, …

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Canon Law, Primogeniture, And The Marriage Of Ebain And Silence, Christopher Callahan Dec 2001

Canon Law, Primogeniture, And The Marriage Of Ebain And Silence, Christopher Callahan

Christopher Callahan

From the Introduction:
 
King Ebain's decision, at the close of the Roman de Silence,1 to wed its eponymous heroine, whom he has just restored to her rightful position as countess of Cornwall, strikes modern readers as impetuous and poorly conceived. This marriage is particularly disturbing in that it effects a complete reversal of the case which Master Heldris seems to be advancing on Silence's behalf. Marriage to the very sovereign who was responsible for her predicament hardly seems a
fitting resolution to a tale that belies its own misogynous rhetoric by presenting Silence and her subterfuge in a …

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Monastic Approaches To Medicine In The Middle Ages, Christopher Callahan Feb 2000

Monastic Approaches To Medicine In The Middle Ages, Christopher Callahan

Christopher Callahan

Nature and God are linked through the creative power of the Word, for which Hildegard coined the term viriditas or “greening power”. Viriditas is the life force which brings all of us into wholeness and into balance with Nature, and is the key to finding our way to God. In this way, Hildegard stands at the pinnacle of medieval Christian medicine. Having evolved beyond excessive reliance on the occult and perched on the cusp of a revival of scholastic medicine, she exemplifies the naturalistic bent of the best of monastic thought. Fusing what ancient medical knowledge was available with a …

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Music In Medieval Medical Practice: Speculations And Certainties, Christopher Callahan Dec 1999

Music In Medieval Medical Practice: Speculations And Certainties, Christopher Callahan

Christopher Callahan

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Interpolating The Musical Text Of The Lyric Interpolations: Guillaume De Dole The Trouvere Manuscript Tradition, Christopher Callahan Dec 1990

Interpolating The Musical Text Of The Lyric Interpolations: Guillaume De Dole The Trouvere Manuscript Tradition, Christopher Callahan

Christopher Callahan

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Aspects De La Scriptologie Des Chansonniers Français Des Xine Et Xive Siècles, Christopher Callahan Dec 1989

Aspects De La Scriptologie Des Chansonniers Français Des Xine Et Xive Siècles, Christopher Callahan

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The Evolution Of The Lyric Insertion In Thirteenth-Century Narrative, Christopher Callahan Dec 1989

The Evolution Of The Lyric Insertion In Thirteenth-Century Narrative, Christopher Callahan

Christopher Callahan

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