I came to Brown with a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Yale. (Before graduate school, I had attended a French lycée and Princeton, where I majored in English.) At Brown I joined two departments, Comparative Literature and French Studies, each of which I would eventually chair. I participated in the Medieval Studies program and in faculty governance, especially on the Faculty Executive Committee. My career path has included several literary domains of the Western Middle Ages, with forays into teaching literary theory. I have researched the cultural and political messages that hand-written books conveyed to the patrons who commissioned them, to the book collectors who fought over them, and to other readers in medieval courts and cities. I am investigating, for instance, the political implications of troubadours songs for their original listeners and also, in later circumstances, for scribes who gathered them into manuscript anthologies, especially in northern Italy.
| "Jörg O. Fichte, Peter Stotz, Sebastian Neumeister, Roger Friedlein, Franziska Wenzel, and Holger Runow, eds., Das Streitgedicht im Mittelalter (Stuttgart, S. Hirzel Verlag 2019)." H-Soz-Kult, no. 20-11-2019, 2019. |
| "Rosalind Brown-Grant, Anne D. Hedeman, and Bernard Ribu00e9mont, eds., Textual and Visual Representations of Power and Justice in Medieval France: Manuscripts and Early Printed Books. Farnham, Surrey, UK, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2015. Pp. xxi, 322; 111 color and 6 black-and-white figures. $129.95. ISBN: 978-1-4724-1570-7." Speculum, vol. 92, no. 3, 2017, pp. 795-796. |
| Bossy, Michel-André. "An Introduction to the Chansons de Geste. Catherine M. Jones." Speculum, vol. 90, no. 04, 2015, pp. 1124-1125. |
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"Parrots and Nightingales: Troubadour Quotations and the Development of European Poetry. Sarah Kay." SHARP News, vol. 24, no. 2, 2015, pp. 20-21.
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"Charles d’Orléans and the Wars of the Roses: Yorkist and Tudor Implications of British Library MS Royal 16 F ii.” In: Shaping Courtliness in Medieval France: Essays in Honor of Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner. Ed. Daniel E. O’Sullivan and Laurie Shepard.", Cambridge, UK, D. S. Brewer, 2013, pp. 61-80.
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| "A Garland of Satire, Wisdom, and History: Latin Verse from Twelfth-Century France (Carmina Houghtoniensia). Ed. and trans. Jan M. Ziolkowski, Bridget K. Balint et al." H-France Review, vol. 11, no. May, 2011, pp. 1-4. |
| "Poetry, Knowledge and Community in Late Medieval France. Ed. Rebecca Dixon and Finn E. Sinclair." H-France Review, vol. 10, no. March, 2010, pp. 162-166. |
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"L’épopée du Prince Noir : les rimes du héraut Chandos et la prose de Froissart.” In: Mythes à la Cour, mythes pour la cour (Courtly Mythologies). Actes du XIIe Congrès de la Société internationale de littérature courtoise, 29 juillet-4 août 2007 (Universités de Lausanne et de Genève). Ed. Alain Corbellari, et al.", Genève, Droz, 2010, pp. 131-141.
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"Roland’s Migration from Anglo-Norman Epic to Royal French Chronicle History.” In: Epic and History. Ed. David Konstan and Kurt Raaflaub.", Malden, Mass, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009, pp. 293-309.
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| "The Place of Thought: The Complexity of One in Late Medieval French Didactic Poetry. Sarah Kay." H-France Review, vol. 8, no. September, 2008, pp. 496-499. |
| " Concordance of Medieval Occitan: COM2 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2005, CD-ROM). Peter T. Ricketts and Alan Reed." Romance Philology, vol. 61, no. 1, 2007, pp. 122-124. |
| "Compilatio: Lyric Texts and Prose Commentaries in Troubadour Manuscript H (Vat. lat. 3207). Elizabeth W. Poe." Speculum, vol. 78, no. 2, 2003, pp. 587-589. |
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"Recollections of a Romanian Diplomat, 1918-1969. Raoul V. Bossy. Ed. and trans. G. H. Bossy and M.-A. Bossy." . 2003.
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"Les Capétiens épiés par Guiraut Riquier.” In: Scène, évolution, sort de la langue et de la littérature d’oc : Actes du VIIe Congrès international de l’Association Internationale d’Etudes Occitanes (Reggio Calabria-Messina, 7-13 juillet 2002). Ed. Rossana Castano, Saverio Guida, and Fortunata Latella.", Roma, Viella, 2003, pp. 143-155.
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"The Ins and Outs of Court: Guiraut Riquier’s Poetics of Ostracism.” In: The Court Reconvenes: Selected Proceedings of the Ninth Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society. Ed. Barbara Altmann and Carleton Carroll.", Woodbridge, Boydell & Brewer, 2003, pp. 275-284.
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| "The Troubadours: An Introduction. Simon Gaunt , Sarah Kay." Speculum, vol. 77, no. 2, 2002, pp. 532-534. |
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"Donnant, donnant : les échanges entre Froissart et ses interlocuteurs à la cour de Gaston Phébus.” In: Courtly Literature and Clerical Culture – Höfische Literatur und Klerikerkultur – Littérature courtoise et culture cléricale. Selected papers from the Tenth Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society. Ed. Christoph Huber and Henrike Lähnemann.", Tübingen, Attempto Verlag, 2002, pp. 29-38.
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Lives and Legacies: An Encyclopedia of People Who Changed the World. Artists, Writers, and Musicians. Edited by Michel-André Bossy, Thomas Brothers, and John Craig McEnroe.. Oryx Press, 2001.
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"Alphonse le Sage et la compilation des œuvres de Guiraut Riquier.” In: Rayonnement de la civilisation occitane à l’aube d’un nouveau millénaire. Ed. Georg Kremnitz et al.", Wien, Praesens Wissenschaftsverlag, 2001, pp. 180-189.
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| "Gender and Genre in Medieval French Literature. Simon Gaunt." Speculum, vol. 73, no. 3, 1998, pp. 848-850. |
| "Love for Sale: Materialist Readings of the Troubadour Razo Corpus. William E. Burgwinkle." The Medieval Review, 1998. |
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"Arms and the Bride: Christine’s Military Treatise as a Wedding Gift for Margaret of Anjou.” In: Christine de Pizan and the Categories of Difference. Ed. Marilynn Desmond.", Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1998, pp. 236-256.
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| "Songs of the Women Troubadours. Ed. and trans. Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner, Laurie Shepard, and Sarah White." TENSO, vol. 13, no. 1, 1997, pp. 61-66. |
| "Preface." [Guiraut Riquier II]." TENSO, vol. 11, no. 2, 1996, pp. 125-128. |
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"Afterword.” In: Transtextualities: Of Cycles and Cyclicity in Medieval French Literature. Ed. Sara Sturm-Maddox and Donald Maddox.", Binghamton, State University of New York Press, 1996, pp. 195-203.
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"Cours méditerranéennes et politique d’empire dans le chansonnier de Guiraut Riquier.”." Studi Mediolatini e Volgari , vol. 42, 1996, pp. 67-78.
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"Gender and Compilational Patterns in Troubadour Lyric: The Case of Manuscript N.” Co-authored with Nancy A. Jones." French Forum, vol. 21, no. 3, 1996, pp. 261-280.
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"The Trobar clus of Raimbaut d’Aurenga, Giraut de Bornelh, and Arnaut Daniel.”." Mediaevalia, vol. 19, no. 1, 1996, pp. 203-219.
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| "The Subject of Violence: The 'Song of Roland' and the Birth of the State. Peter Haidu." Modern Language Quarterly, vol. 56, no. 1, 1995, pp. 97-99. |
| "Preface." [Guiraut Riquier I]." vol. 9, no. 2, 1994, pp. 103-105. |
| "Twin Flocks: Guiraut Riquier’s Pastorelas and his Book of Songs.”." TENSO, vol. 9, no. 2, 1994, pp. 149-176. |
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"Arnaut Daniel and the Lake of the Heart.” In: The Scope of Words: In Honor of Albert S. Cook. Ed. Peter Baker, Sarah Webster Goodwin, and Gary Handwerk.", New York, Peter Lang, 1991, pp. 59-71.
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| "Cyclical Composition in Guiraut Riquier’s Book of Poems.”." Speculum, vol. 66, no. 2, 1991, pp. 277-293. |
| "Aliscans, (Les classiques français du moyen âge 110/111). Ed. Claude Régnier." , ed.,, 2 vols. (Paris: Honoré Champion, 1990), in Mediaevistik 5 (1992): 335-336." Mediaevistik, vol. 5, 1990, pp. 335-336. |
| "The Elaboration of Female Narrative Functions in Erec et Enide.” In: Courtly Literature: Culture and Context. Ed. Keith Busby and Erik Kooper.", Amsterdam, John Benjamins, 1990, pp. 23-38. |
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"Woman’s Plain Talk in Le Débat de l’omme et de la femme by Guillaume Alexis.”." Fifteenth-Century Studies, vol. 16, 1990, pp. 23-41.
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Medieval Debate Poetry: Vernacular Works. . Garland Press, 1987.
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| "Les fabliaux: Contes à rire du moyen âge. Philippe Ménard." Speculum, vol. 60, no. 2, 1985, pp. 439-440. |
| "Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages. Glending Olson." MLN, vol. 99, no. 5, 1984, pp. 1233-1234. |
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"A propos des formules de salutation au moyen âge. Leena Löfstedt.”." vol. 8, 1981, pp. 327-328.
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"A Poet at the Fountain: Essays on the Narrative Verse of Guillaume de Machaut. William Calin." Romanic Review , vol. 70, 1979, pp. 187-188.
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"Aimeric de Peguilhan’s Partimens.”." Neuphilologische Mitteilungen , vol. 80, no. 2, 1979, pp. 123-132.
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| "Medieval Debates of Body and Soul.”." Comparative Literature, vol. 28, no. 2, 1976, pp. 144-163. |
"The Ins and Outs of Court: Guiraut Riquier's Poetics of Ostracism." In The Court Reconvenes: Selected Proceedings of the Ninth Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society. Ed. Barbara Altmann and Carleton Carroll Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK: Boydell & Brewer, 2003. 275-84.
"Donnant, donnant : les échanges entre Froissart et ses interlocuteurs à la cour de Gaston Phébus." In Courtly Literature and Clerical Culture – Höfische Literatur und Klerikerkultur – Littérature courtoise et culture cléricale. Selected papers from the Tenth Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society. Ed. Christoph Huber and Henrike Lähnemann. Tübingen: Attempto Verlag, 2002. 29-38.
"Les Capétiens épiés par Guiraut Riquier." In Scène, évolution, sort de la langue et de la littérature d'oc : Actes du VIIe Congrès international de l'Association Internationale d'Etudes Occitanes. Reggio Calabria-Messina, 7-13 juillet 2002. Ed. Rossana Castano, Saverio Guida, and Fortunata Latella. Roma: Viella, 2003. I: 143-55.
Lives and Legacies: An Encyclopedia of People Who Changed the World. Artists, Writers, and Musicians. Edited by Michel-André Bossy, Thomas Brothers, and John Craig McEnroe. Westport, Conn.: Oryx Press, 2001.
"Alphonse le Sage et la compilation des œuvres de Guiraut Riquier." In Rayonnement de la civilisation occitane à l'aube d'un nouveau millénaire. Ed. Georg Kremnitz et al. Vienna: Praesens Wissenschaftsverlag, 2001. 180-89.
Elizabeth W. Poe, Compilatio: Lyric Texts and Prose Commentaries in Troubadour Manuscript H (Vat. Lat. 3207) (Lexington, KY: French Forum Publishers, 2000). Speculum 78 (2003), 587-89.
Simon Gaunt and Sarah Kay, eds., The Troubadours: An Introduction (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999). Speculum 77 (2002), 532-34.
Christine de Pizan, Le livre du corps de policie, ed. Angus J. Kennedy (Paris: Honoré Champion, 1998). Speculum 75 (2000), 678-79.
"Arms and the Bride: Christine's Military Treatise as a Wedding Gift for Margaret of Anjou." In Christine de Pizan and the Categories of Difference. Ed. Marilynn Desmond. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998. 236-56.
William E. Burgwinkle, Love for Sale: Materialist Readings of the Troubadour Razo Corpus (New York and London: Garland, 1997). The Medieval Review 98.06.14: http://www.hti.umich.edu/b/bmr/tmr.html
Guiraut Riquier II. Special issue of TENSO 11.2 (1996).
"Preface." Second special issue on the troubadour Guiraut Riquier: TENSO 11.2 (1996), 125-28.
"Gender and Compilational Patterns in Troubadour Lyric: The Case of Manuscript N." Article co-authored with Nancy Jones. French Forum 21 (1996), 261-80.
"Cours méditerranéennes et politique d'empire dans le chansonnier de Guiraut Riquier." Studi Mediolatini e Volgari 42 (1996), 67-78.
"Afterword." In Transtextualities: Of Cycles and Cyclicity in Medieval French Literature. Ed. Sara Sturm-Maddox and Donald Maddox. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 149. Binghamton: State University of New York Press, 1996. 195-203.
"The Trobar clus of Raimbaut d'Aurenga, Giraut de Bornelh, and Arnaut Daniel." Mediaevalia 19 (1996), 203-19.
Simon Gaunt, Gender and Genre in Medieval French Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995). Speculum 73 (1998), 848-50.
Songs of the Women Troubadours, ed. and transl. Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner, Laurie Shepard, and Sarah White (New York: Garland, 1995). TENSO 13 (1997), 61-64.
Guiraut Riquier. Special issue of TENSO 9.2 (1994).
"Preface." First special issue on the troubadour Guiraut Riquier: TENSO 9.2 (1994), 103-05.
"Twin Flocks: Guiraut Riquier's Pastorelas and his Book of Songs." TENSO 9 (1994), 149-76.
Peter Haidu, The Subject of Violence: The "Song of Roland" and the Birth of the State (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993). Modern Language Quarterly 56 (1995), 97-99.
"Arnaut Daniel and the Lake of the Heart." In The Scope of Words: In Honor of Albert S. Cook. Ed. Peter Baker, Sarah Webster Goodwin, and Gary Handwerk. New York: Peter Lang, 1991. 59-71.
"Cyclical Composition in Guiraut Riquier's Book of Poems." Speculum 66 (1991), 277-93.
"Woman's Plain Talk in Le Débat de l'omme et de la femme by Guillaume Alexis." Fifteenth-Century Studies 16 (1990), 23-41.
"The Elaboration of Female Narrative Functions in Erec et Enide." In Courtly Literature: Culture and Context. Ed. Keith Busby and Erik Kooper. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1990. 23-38.
Aliscans, ed. Claude Régnier, 2 vols. (Paris: Honoré Champion, 1990), in Mediaevistik 5 (1992), 335-36.
Marguerite Duras, Emily L., trans. Barbara Bray (New York: Pantheon, 1989). The Providence Sunday Journal, May 17, 1989, H-17.
Medieval Debate Poetry: Vernacular Work.. New York: Garland Press, 1987.
Philippe Ménard, Les fabliaux: Contes à rire du moyen âge (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1983). Speculum 60 (1985), 439-40.
Glending Olson, Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982). MLN 99 (1984), 1233-34..
"Aimeric de Peguilhan's Partimens." Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 80 (1979), 123-32.
Leena Löfstedt, "A propos des formules de salutation au moyen âge" (Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 79 [1978], 193-215). Olifant 8 (1981), 327-28.
"Medieval Debates of Body and Soul." Comparative Literature 28 (1976), 144-63.
William Calin, A Poet at the Fountain: Essays on the Narrative Verse of Guillaume de Machaut (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1974). The Romanic Review 70 (1979), 187.
| Year | Degree | Institution |
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| 1970 | PhD | Yale University |
| 1968 | MA | Yale University |
| 1965 | BA | Princeton University |
