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Silence Scholarship
Akbari, Suzanne Conklin. “Nature’s Forge Recast in the Roman de Silence.” Literary Aspects of Courtly Culture: Selected Papers from the Seventh Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, U.S.A., 27 July - 1 August 1992., D.S. Brewer, 1994, pp. 39–46.
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Barr, Jessica. “The Idea of the Wilderness: Gender and Resistance in Le Roman de Silence.” Arthuriana, vol. 30, no. 1, 2020, pp. 3–25, https://doi.org/10.1353/art.2020.0000.
Bloch, Howard R. “Silence and Holes: The Roman de Silence and the Art of the Trouvère.” Yale French Studies, no. 70, Jan. 1986. JSTOR Journals, https://doi.org/10.2307/2929850.
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Blumreich, Kathleen M. “Lesbian Desire in the Old French Roman de Silence.” Arthuriana, vol. 7, no. 1, 1997, pp. 47–62.
Bolduc, Michelle. “Images of Romance: The Miniatures of Le Roman de Silence.” Arthuriana, vol. 12, no. 1, 2002, pp. 101–12, https://doi.org/10.1353/art.2002.0067.
Bouchet, Florence. “L’écriture androgyne: Le travestissement dans Le Roman de Silence.” Le nu et le vêtu au Moyen Age (XIIe-XIIIe Siècles): Actes du 25e colloque du CUER MA, 2-3-4 Mars 2000, CUERMA, 2001, pp. 47–58.
Brahney, Kathleen J. “When Silence was Golden: Female Personae in the Roman de Silence.” The Spirit of the Court: Selected Proceedings of the Fourth Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society (Toronto 1983), edited by Glyn S. Burgess, Robert A. Taylor, Alan Deyermond, Dennis Green, and Beryl Rowland, D.S. Brewer, 1985, pp. 52-61.
Burr, Kristin L. “Nurturing Debate in Le Roman de Silence.” Founding Feminisms in Medieval Studies: Essays in Honour of E. Jane Burns, D.S. Brewer, 2016, pp. 33–44.
Callahan, Christopher. “Canon Law, Primogeniture, and the Marriage of Ebain and Silence.” Romance Quarterly, vol. 49, no. 1, 2002, pp. 12–20, https://doi.org/10.1080/08831150209600881.
Campbell, Emma. “Translating Gender in Thirteenth-Century French Cross-Dressing Narratives: La Vie de Sainte Euphrosine and Le Roman de Silence.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, vol. 49, no. 2, 2019, pp. 233–64, https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-7506510.
Clark, Robert L.A. “Queering Gender and Naturalizing Class in the Roman de Silence.” Arthuriana, vol. 12, no. 1, Spring 2002, pp. 50-63, https://doi.org/10.1353/art.2002.0081.
Cooper, Kate Mason. “Elle and L: Sexualized Textuality in ‘Le Roman de Silence.’” Romance Notes, vol. 25, no. 3, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for its Department of Romance Studies, 1985, pp. 341–60.
Cowper, Frederick A. G. “Origins and Peregrinations of the Laval-Middleton Manuscript.” Nottingham Medieval Studies, 1959. pp. 3-18.
Gaunt, Simon. “The Significance of Silence.” Paragraph, vol. 13, no. 2, Edinburgh University Press, 1990, pp. 202–16.
Hess, Erika E. “Inheritance Law and Gender Identity in the Roman de Silence.” Law and Sovereignty in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Brepols, 2011, pp. 217–35, https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ASMAR-EB.1.100012.
Jewers, Caroline. “The Non-Existent Knight: Adventure in Le Roman de Silence.” Arthuriana, vol. 7, no. 1, 1997, pp. 87–110.
Keene, Katie. “‘Cherchez Eufeme’: The Evil Queen in Le Roman de Silence.” Arthuriana, vol. 14, no. 3, 2004, pp. 3–22, https://doi.org/10.1353/art.2004.0084.
Khan, Robert Omar. “Genealogy and Cross-Gendering in Le Roman de Silence and Ariake No Wakare (Parting at Dawn).” Arthuriana, vol. 12, no. 1, 2002, pp. 76–84, https://doi.org/10.1353/art.2002.0035.
Kinoshita, Sharon. “Male-Order Brides: Marriage, Patriarchy, and Monarchy in the ‘Roman de Silence.’” Arthuriana, vol. 12, no. 1, Apr. 2002.
Krause, Kathy. “Material Signs? Gendered Birthmarks in Old French Narrative.” English Language Notes, vol. 53, no. 2, 2015, pp. 75–88.
Labbie, Erin F. “The Specular Image of the Gender-Neutral Name: Naming Silence in Le Roman de Silence.” Arthuriana, vol. 7, no. 1, 1997, pp. 63–77.
Lecoy, Félix. “Corrections: Le Roman de Silence d’Heldris de Cornualle.” Romania, vol. 99, no. 393, Persée - Portail des revues scientifiques en SHS, 1978, pp. 109–25, https://doi.org/10.3406/roma.1978.1913.
Lloyd, Heather. “The Triumph of Pragmatism: Reward and Punishment in The Roman de Silence.” Varty, Kenneth, et al. Rewards and Punishments in the Arthurian Romances and Lyric Poetry of Mediaeval France. D.S. Brewer, 1987. pp.77-88.
McCracken, Peggy. “‘The Boy Who Was a Girl’: Reading Gender in the Roman de Silence.” Romanic Review: A Journal Devoted to the Study of Romance Literature, vol. 85, no. 4, 1994, pp. 517–36.
Newman, Barbara. “Did Goddesses Empower Woman? The Case of Dame Nature.” Gendering the Master Narrative: Women and Power in the Middle Ages, Cornell University Press, 2003, pp. 135–55.
Perret, Michèle. “Travesties et transsexuelles: Yde, Silence, Grisandole, Blanchandine.” Romance Notes, vol. 25, no. 3, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for its Department of Romance Studies, 1985, pp. 328–40.
Pratt, Karen. “Humour in the Roman de Silence.” Arthurian Literature, XIX: Comedy in Arthurian Literature, D.S. Brewer, 2003, pp. 87–103, https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/arthurian-literature-xix/humour-in-the-roman-de-silence/02FD0AF72178656EF472359574263262.
Psaki, F. Regina. “The Modern Editor and Medieval ‘Misogyny’: Text Editing and Le Roman de Silence.” Arthuriana, vol. 7, no. 1, 1997, pp. 78–86.
—. “Verse versus Poetry: Translating Medieval Narrative Verse.” The Medieval Translator / Traduire Au Moyen Age, 10, Brepols, 2007, pp. 419–33, https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TMT-EB.3.2265.
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Stock, Lorraine Kochanske. “The Importance of Being Gender ‘Stable’: Masculinity and Feminine Empowerment in Le Roman de Silence.” Arthuriana, vol. 7, no. 1, 1997, pp. 7–34.
Terrell, Katherine H. “Competing Gender Ideologies and the Limitations of Language in Le Roman de Silence.” Romance Quarterly, vol. 55, no. 1, 2008, pp. 35–48, https://doi.org/10.3200/RQTR.55.1.35-48.
Victorin, Patricia. “Le nu et le vêtu dans le Roman de Silence : métaphore de l’opposition entre nature et norreture.” Le nu et le vêtu au Moyen Age (XIIe-XIIIe Siècles): Actes du 25e colloque du CUER MA, 2-3-4 Mars 2000, CUERMA, 2001, pp. 365-382.
Waters, Elizabeth A. “The Third Path: Alternative Sex, Alternative Gender in Le Roman de Silence.” Arthuriana, vol. 7, no. 1, 1997, pp. 35–46.
Other Relevant Scholarship
Bamford, Heather, and Emily C. Francomano. “On Digital-Medieval Manuscript Culture: A Tentative Manifesto.” Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures, vol. 7, no. 1, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018, pp. 29–45. Project MUSE, https://doi.org/10.1353/dph.2018.0002.
Boyle, Jennifer and Helen J. Burgess. The Routledge Research Companion to Digital Medieval Literature. Routledge, 2018.
Leet, Elizabeth S. Communicating With Horses: Women As Equestrians In 12th - Through 14th - Century Old French, Anglo-Norman and Middle English Literature. 2016 University of Virginia, PhD dissertation. https://doi.org/10.18130/V3PZ86.
Ramey, Lynn, et al. “Revisioning the Global Middle Ages: Immersive Environments for Teaching Medieval Languages and Culture.” Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures, vol. 8, no. 1, 2019, pp. 86-104, http://muse.jhu.edu/article/729807.
Schultz, James A. “Heterosexuality as a Threat to Medieval Studies.” Journal of the History of Sexuality, vol. 15, no. 1, Jan. 2006, pp. 14-29, https://doi.org/10.1353/sex.2006.0060.
Shoshana Felman. “Rereading Femininity.” Yale French Studies, no. 62, Jan. 1981, pp. 19- 44, https://doi.org/10.2307/2929892.
Treharne, Elaine. “Fleshing Out the Text: The Transcendent Manuscript in the Digital Age.” Postmedieval: A Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies, vol. 4, no. 4, 2013, pp. 465-478.
Images
Margin image cropped from:
The Author Hearing the Story of Gillion de Trazegnies in Romance of Gillion de Trezegnies, 1464, Lieven van Lathem, illuminator, and David Aubert, scribe. Tempera colors, gold, and ink on parchment, 15 5/16 x 11 in. The J. Paul Getty Museum, MS 111, folio 9. Accessed via https://blogs.getty.edu/iris/medieval-manuscripts-alive-middle-french/.
Manicule adapted from:
Terence, Terentius cum tribus cotilde;mentis: uidelicet Io. Cal[phurnii] Gvido. Iv[venalis] Donatus. Mediolani, Impressum est per I.A. Scinzenzeler, [Impensis] I. de Legnano, 1501. Image courtesy of Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto. http://drc.usask.ca/projects/archbook/manicules.php.