Telling the Story in the Middle Ages: Essays in Honor of Evelyn Birge Vitz

List of Illustrations ix
List of Contributors xi
Evelyn \'Timmie\' Birge Vitz, Bibliography xiii
Introduction / Kathryn A. Duys, Elizabeth Emery, Laurie Postlewate 1
Part I: Speaking of Stories
\'Of Aunters They Began to Tell\': Informal Story in Medieval England and Modern America / Linda Marie Zaerr 13
The Storyteller’s Verbal \'jonglerie\' in \'Renart jongleur\' / Marilyn Lawrence 31
\'Plusurs en ai oïz conter\': Performance and the Dramatic Poetics of Voice in the \'lais\' of Marie de France / Simonetta Cochis 47
Who Tells the Stories of Poetry? Villon and his Readers / Nancy Freeman Regalado 61
Part II: Inscribing Stories
The Audience in the Story: Novices Respond to History in Gautier de Coinci’s \'Chasteé as nonains\' / Kathryn A. Duys 77
Effet de parlé and effet d’écrit: The Authorial Strategies of Medieval French Historians / Cristian Bratu 93
\'Or, entendez\'! Jacques Tahureau and the Staging of the Storytelling Scene in Early Modern France / Kathleen Loysen 111
Telling the Story of the Christ Child: Text and Image in Two Fourteenth-Century Manuscripts / Maureen Boulton 123
Authorizing the Story: Guillaume de Machaut as Doctor of Love / Joyce Coleman 141
Part III: Moving Stories
Retelling the Story: Intertextuality, Sacred and Profane, in the Late Roman Legend of St. Eugenia / E. Gordon Whatley 157
\'Ruodlieb\' and Romance in Latin: Audience and Authorship / Elizabeth Archibald 171
\'Turner a pru\': Conversion and Translation in the \'Vie de seint Clement\' / Laurie Postlewate 187
Stories for the King: Narration and Authority in the \'Crusade Compilation\' of Philippe VI of France (London, British Library, MS Royal 19.D.i) / Mark Cruse 205
\'Le Berceau de la littérature française\': Medieval Literature as Storytelling in Nineteenth-Century France / Elizabeth Emery 219
Storytelling Tribute: An Ode to Friendship Retelling the Old Story / Samuel N. Rosenberg 239
Index 245
Tabula Gratulatoria 261