A celebration of the groundbreaking achievements of Nancy Freeman Regalado in the field of medieval French literature.This collection of essays pays tribute to Nancy Freeman Regalado, a ground-breaking scholar in the field of medieval French literature whose research has always pushed beyond disciplinary boundaries. The articles in the volume reflect the depth and diversity of her scholarship, as well as her collaborations with literary critics, philologists, historians, art historians, musicologists, and vocalists - in France, England, and the United States. Inspired byher most recent work, these twenty-four essays are tied together by a single question, rich in ramifications: how does performance shape our understanding of medieval and pre-modern literature and culture, whether the nature of that performance is visual, linguistic, theatrical, musical, religious, didactic, socio-political, or editorial? The studies presented here invite us to look afresh at the interrelationship of audience, author, text, and artifact, to imagine new ways of conceptualizing the creation, transmission, and reception of medieval literature, music, and art. EGLAL DOSS-QUINBY is Professor of French at Smith College; ROBERTA L. KRUEGER is Professor of Frenchat Hamilton College; E. JANE BURNS is Professor of Women's Studies and Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Contributors: ANNE AZÉMA, RENATE BLUMENFELD-KOSINSKI, CYNTHIA J. BROWN, ELIZABETH A. R. BROWN, MATILDA TOMARYN BRUCKNER, E. JANE BURNS, ARDIS BUTTERFIELD, KIMBERLEE CAMPBELL, ROBERT L. A. CLARK, MARK CRUSE, KATHRYN A. DUYS, ELIZABETH EMERY, SYLVIA HUOT, MARILYN LAWRENCE, KATHLEEN A. LOYSEN, LAURIE POSTLEWATE, EDWARD H. ROESNER, SAMUEL N. ROSENBERG, LUCY FREEMAN SANDLER, PAMELA SHEINGORN, HELEN SOLTERER, JANE H. M. TAYLOR, EVELYN BIRGE VITZ, LORI J. WALTERS, AND MICHEL ZINK.

IntroductionLa poésie comme récit - Michel ZinkColin Muset and Performance - Samuel N. RosenbergSubtilitas and Delectatio: Ne m'a pas oublié - Edward H. Roesner"Flables couvertes": Poetry and Performance in the Fifteenth Century - Jane H. M. TaylorIntimate Performance: An Ivory Writing Tablet Cover at The Cloisters - Mark CruseA Cultural Performance in Silk: Sebelinne's aumousniere in the Dit de l'Empereur Constant - E. Jane BurnsActing Like a Man: Performing Gender in Tristan de Nanteuil - Kimberlee CampbellAmorous Performances: The Aventure de l'espee vermeille in Perceforest - Sylvia HuotHistoricizing Performance: The Case of the Jeu de Robin et Marion - Ardis ButterfieldThe Protean Performer: Defining Minstrel Identity in Tristan Narratives - Marilyn LawrencePerforming Vernacular Literature in Monastic Culture: The lectio divina in Gautier de Coinci's Miracles de Nostre Dame - Kathryn A. DuysPerformative Reading: Experiencing through the Poet's Body in Guillaume de Digulleville's Pèlerinage de Jhesucrist - Pamela SheingornPerformative Reading: Experiencing through the Poet's Body in Guillaume de Digulleville's Pèlerinage de Jhesucrist - Robert L. A. ClarkThe Anglo-Norman Office of the Cross in the Lichtenthal Psalter - Lucy Freeman Sandler"Laver de ses pechiés une pecheresse royale": Psalm Collects in an Early Fourteenth-Century Devotional Book - Elizabeth A R BrownDramatic Troubles of Ecclesia: Gendered Performances of the Divided Church - Renate Blumenfeld-KosinskiPreaching the Sins of the Ladies: Nicole Bozon's "Char d'Orgueil" - Laurie PostlewateMaking Names, Breaking Lives: Women and Injurious Language at the Court of Isabeau of Bavaria and Charles VI - Helen SoltererPerforming the Nation: The Play Performed at the Great Feast in Christine de Pizan's Biography of Charles V - Lori J. WaltersVariegated Performance of Aucassin et Nicolette - Evelyn Birge VitzLate Medieval Representations of Storytelling and Story-Performance - Kathleen A. LoysenParatextual Performances in the Early Parisian Book Trade: Antoine Vérard's Edition of Boccaccio's Nobles et cleres dames [1493] - Cynthia J. Brown"Resuscitating" Medieval Literature in New York and Paris: La femme que Nostre-Dame garda d'estre arse at Yvette Guilbert's School of Theatre, 1919-241919-24 - The Pitfalls and Promise of Classroom Performance - Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner"Dunc chante haut et cler": remarques sur l'interprétation de la musique médiévale - Anne Azéma