Emotions, Race, Gender and Crusading in Fifteenth-Century Burgundian Prose Epics and Chronicles

十五世纪勃艮第散文史诗和编年史中的情感、种族、性别和十字军东征

• 批准号: 2598262
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Liverpool
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2598262
• 关键词: Emotions; Race; Gender; Crusading; Fifteenth

The crusade plans of Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy (r. 1419-1467) were central to his court's culture; they were a means of asserting the power of the ever-expanding state of Burgundy, which was a key centre of literary and artistic production in late-medieval Europe. Philip, himself born when his father was on crusade in Nicopolis in 1396, was influenced by models of ethical and political conduct in lavishly illustrated prose reworkings (updated versions) of earlier verse epics and romances. Unlike in earlier centuries, women no longer participated in crusades, yet, paradoxically, crusading in this later period was often more inspired by "courtly love" than religious fervour: at the Banquet of the Pheasant of 1454, men publicly took crusading oaths in front of women, in response to a female personification of the Holy Church threatened by a "Saracen", signifying Constantinople which had just fallen to the Ottoman Turks.While some prose romances and chronicles have recently been readdressed by scholars, later prose epics remain neglected concerning text/image relations and emotions. In recent years, medievalists have paid more attention to the History of Emotions, but it has yet to be applied fully to Burgundy, especially in terms of chivalric masculinity. Studies of crusading sources employing critical race theory are only just emerging and, while literary scholars have addressed race, religion, and gender in several earlier French verse epics, an intersectional study covering later prose reworkings of epic material is long overdue.The thesis will address the following issues:How crusader emotions are depicted in text and image in illuminated manuscripts;How text and image depict emotional attitudes to gender or race and how they would have been interpreted in their historical context;How literary or artistic traditions and crusading influenced depictions of emotion in relation to race and gender identities;How evolving ideals of chivalric masculinity and crusader motivation appear in sources containing historical models for crusading or cross-cultural relations.The study will, therefore, analyse depictions of emotions concerning Muslim and Burgundian "racial-religious" and gender identities at the court of Philip the Good through selected manuscripts of three neglected prose epics and an epic-based prose chronicle:The anonymous Fierabras, ante 1410; Belle Hélène de Constantinople, 1448; Renaut de Montauban, ante 1462; Croniques et Conquestes de Charlemaine, 1458. The thesis will draw on modern gender and critical race theory in order to analyse how crusading emotions (e.g. pride, fear, anger, and hatred etc.) are represented through facial expressions, clothing and settings in images, how emotions are expressed in written terminology, and how performative emotional displays intertwine with crusader spirituality. It will also analyse how far Barbara Rosenwein's influential concept of emotional communities applies to the sources. It will employ Rosenwein's method of quantitative analysis of emotion terms, studying their gendered and "racialised" distribution in order to compare the texts under study. These data will be nuanced and contextualised by close literary analysis of the texts and examination of the etymologies of Middle French emotion terms. Furthermore, the thesis will consider the influence of earlier verse epics and chronicles on fifteenth-century Burgundian writers and audiences, examining how depictions of emotions vary between gender and "racial-religious" identities and how these depictions feed into the construction of performative, emotional crusading ideologies.This project will make an original contribution to the fields of medieval French literature, the History of Emotions, art history, and gender and critical race studies by examining manuscripts almost entirely neglected by critics and thus providing new insight into life at the court of Philip the Good.

菲利普公爵的十字军计划是勃艮第的福利（r。1419-1467）是他法院文化的核心。它们是主张不断扩大的勃艮第状态的力量，勃艮第状态是中世纪欧洲后期文学和艺术生产的关键中心。菲利普（Philip）本人出生于1396年的父亲在尼科波利斯（Nicopolis）进行十字军东征时，受到了早期经文史诗和浪漫史的散文恢复工作（更新版本）的巨大插图散文返演（更新版本）的影响。与早期不同的是，妇女不再参加十字军东征，矛盾的是，在此期间，十字军东征通常受到“贪婪的爱”的启发，而不是宗教热情：在1454年的野鸡宴会上，男人在妇女面前公开遭到妇女的宣誓，这是对圣多斯的人性化的，这表明了妇女在妇女面前，这表明了“ sara徒”，这表明了“ sara”，这表明了“ sara”，这是“ sar徒”，“ sar依了”，这表明了“ sar亵妇女”。奥斯曼帝国土耳其人。虽然最近有一些散文浪漫和编年史被学者们读完了，但后来的散文史诗仍然被忽略了文本/图像关系和情感。近年来，中世纪主义者更加关注情感的历史，但尚未完全应用于勃艮第，尤其是在儿童男子气概方面。关于采用批判种族理论的十字这些来源的研究仅仅是出现的，尽管文学学者在几个早期的法国诗歌中都解决了种族，宗教和性别，但一项涵盖了史诗般材料的散文的相互作用的研究过长。它们将如何在历史背景下解释；文学或艺术传统和十字无限如何影响与种族和性别认同有关的情感描述；如何在童年男性气质和十字军动机的进化思想中出现在包含历史模型中的来源中，以进行交叉或跨文化关系。菲利普法院的身份是通过三个被忽视的散文史诗和史诗般的散文纪事的精选手稿：匿名的Fierabras，Ante 1410； BelleHélèneDeConstinople，1448年； Renaut de Montauban，Ante 1462; Croniques et Conquests de Charlemaine，1458年。论文将借鉴现代性别和批判种族理论，以分析如何通过面部表情，服装和图像中的衣服和环境，情感在书面术语中表现出表达方式，以及表现性的情感，以及如何表现出表演性的情感，以及与表演的情感相互互动的表达方式，以表达方式（例如，骄傲，恐惧，愤怒和仇恨等）。它还将分析芭芭拉·罗森韦（Barbara Rosenwein）的情感社区影响概念适用于来源。它将采用Rosenwein对情绪术语进行定量分析的方法，研究其性别和“种族化”分布，以比较所研究的文本。这些数据将通过对文本的文学分析和对中间法国情绪术语的词源的仔细分析进行细微和背景。此外，论文将考虑早期诗歌和编年史对十五世纪的勃艮第作家和观众的影响，研究性别的描述与“种族宗教和种族宗教的身份”之间的描述如何变化，这些事态发展如何使表演性，情感上的情感思想的构建构成原始的思想。历史，性别和批判性种族研究几乎完全被批评者忽略，从而在菲利普善的法院提供了新的洞察力。