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La Vie de un vallet amerous (Digby 86): a dramatic monologue on the practice and pitfalls of seduction in medieval Britain – by Richard, author of the Besturné?

Abstract:
Surviving in a single copy in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Digby 86, the poem La Vie de un vallet amerous has garnered itself a reputation for its singular obscenity, but it is arguably of greater interest in Anglo-Norman literary history for being a comic dramatic monologue composed in a distinctive verse form. The present article offers a new critical edition of the text and reflects on its relationship to the rest of the manuscript, with particular attention to its affinities to La Besturné, an Anglo-Norman nonsense poem conventionally attributed to a certain Richard.
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Medieval & Modern Languages Faculty
Sub department:
French
Oxford college:
St Peter's College
Role:
Author


Publisher:
Salerno Editrice
Journal:
Medioevo romanzo More from this journal
Volume:
XLIV
Issue:
2
Pages:
241-280
Publication date:
2020-12-31
Acceptance date:
2019-11-12
EISSN:
1724-1707
ISSN:
0390-0711


Language:
English
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uuid:31d1f4ae-0d48-442a-be8f-2f37a8d6b28c
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1071856
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2019-11-14
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