Dows-Miller, Sebastian;
(2025)
Le Dit de Menage: A Fourteenth-Century Set of Anti-Matrimonial, Anti-Clerical, Anti-English Dialogues.
Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie
, 141
(2)
pp. 350-373.
10.1515/zrp-2025-0015.
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Abstract
Le dit de Menage is a short dialogic poem in Middle French which only survives in a single manuscript, namely Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français, 24432. It remains underexamined by scholarship on account of the lack of any satisfactory scholarly edition. This edition fills this lacuna, presenting the first full edition of the text since the nineteenth century, and the first to present the text as it is likely to have been performed: split into a series of dialogues between three characters. We examine the manuscript context of the poem, as well as its content, form, and themes, before presenting the full edition with accompanying glossary.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Le Dit de Menage: A Fourteenth-Century Set of Anti-Matrimonial, Anti-Clerical, Anti-English Dialogues |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1515/zrp-2025-0015 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1515/zrp-2025-0015 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2025 the author(s), published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. |
| Keywords: | edition; Middle French; marriage; medieval misogyny; anti-clerical; Hundred Years War |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > SELCS |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10216145 |
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