The reception of the work of Nicole Bozon via William Herebert: an analysis of London, British Library Additional MS 46919
<p>Nicole Bozon, a Franciscan friar active in England at the turn of the fourteenth century, is the author of a number of Anglo-Norman texts ranging from saints’ lives to passion poems. Despite his large and varied corpus, his output remains critically neglected, and the scant scholarship devo...
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| description | <p>Nicole Bozon, a Franciscan friar active in England at the turn of the fourteenth century, is the author of a number of Anglo-Norman texts ranging from saints’ lives to passion poems. Despite his large and varied corpus, his output remains critically neglected, and the scant scholarship devoted to him is often outdated. The picture which has emerged of Bozon focuses on his texts and use of Anglo-Norman as emblematic of Franciscan spiritual instruction, and pays little attention to manuscript context in responding to questions of audience or reception.</p>
<p>This thesis contends that a new approach is necessary in order to re-evaluate Bozon’s work in line with recent developments in manuscript studies and Anglo- Norman language and literature. This project therefore centres around the transmission of Bozon’s work in London, British Library Additional MS 46919, which forms the basis of his corpus, and its reception in this codex by William Herebert, another Franciscan author of the early fourteenth century. A close reading of texts in their manuscript context addresses the following research questions: i) what can Herebert’s compilation of, and interaction with this manuscript tell us about the composition of Bozon’s audience?, ii) how did Herebert use these texts, or envisage that they might be used?, and iii) how did Herebert understand Bozon’s language choice in the trilingual context of medieval England?</p>
<p>To answer these questions, Chapter I will outline and re-assess the conclusions of previous scholarship on Bozon. Chapter II will provide a detailed description of the
of BL Add. 46919, which will be considered further in Chapter III which will discuss a number of views of the codex as a whole. Chapter IV will turn to the question of authorship, asking how the figure of Bozon is constructed by this manuscript and its compiler, William Herebert. The final two chapters of the manuscript will focus on language choice, in Chapter V through a reading of Bozon’s multilingual work, the Contes moralisés, and finally in Chapter VI with an analysis of Herebert’s translations of his work in this codex.</p> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:0b9f8aaf-ac7b-4f4a-902b-d954680562292024-12-01T11:40:10ZThe reception of the work of Nicole Bozon via William Herebert: an analysis of London, British Library Additional MS 46919Thesishttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_db06uuid:0b9f8aaf-ac7b-4f4a-902b-d95468056229FrenchManuscripts, English (Middle)Literature, MedievalEnglishHyrax Deposit2022Bridge, SLBurrows, D<p>Nicole Bozon, a Franciscan friar active in England at the turn of the fourteenth century, is the author of a number of Anglo-Norman texts ranging from saints’ lives to passion poems. Despite his large and varied corpus, his output remains critically neglected, and the scant scholarship devoted to him is often outdated. The picture which has emerged of Bozon focuses on his texts and use of Anglo-Norman as emblematic of Franciscan spiritual instruction, and pays little attention to manuscript context in responding to questions of audience or reception.</p> <p>This thesis contends that a new approach is necessary in order to re-evaluate Bozon’s work in line with recent developments in manuscript studies and Anglo- Norman language and literature. This project therefore centres around the transmission of Bozon’s work in London, British Library Additional MS 46919, which forms the basis of his corpus, and its reception in this codex by William Herebert, another Franciscan author of the early fourteenth century. A close reading of texts in their manuscript context addresses the following research questions: i) what can Herebert’s compilation of, and interaction with this manuscript tell us about the composition of Bozon’s audience?, ii) how did Herebert use these texts, or envisage that they might be used?, and iii) how did Herebert understand Bozon’s language choice in the trilingual context of medieval England?</p> <p>To answer these questions, Chapter I will outline and re-assess the conclusions of previous scholarship on Bozon. Chapter II will provide a detailed description of the of BL Add. 46919, which will be considered further in Chapter III which will discuss a number of views of the codex as a whole. Chapter IV will turn to the question of authorship, asking how the figure of Bozon is constructed by this manuscript and its compiler, William Herebert. The final two chapters of the manuscript will focus on language choice, in Chapter V through a reading of Bozon’s multilingual work, the Contes moralisés, and finally in Chapter VI with an analysis of Herebert’s translations of his work in this codex.</p> |
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| title | The reception of the work of Nicole Bozon via William Herebert: an analysis of London, British Library Additional MS 46919 |
| title_full | The reception of the work of Nicole Bozon via William Herebert: an analysis of London, British Library Additional MS 46919 |
| title_fullStr | The reception of the work of Nicole Bozon via William Herebert: an analysis of London, British Library Additional MS 46919 |
| title_full_unstemmed | The reception of the work of Nicole Bozon via William Herebert: an analysis of London, British Library Additional MS 46919 |
| title_short | The reception of the work of Nicole Bozon via William Herebert: an analysis of London, British Library Additional MS 46919 |
| title_sort | reception of the work of nicole bozon via william herebert an analysis of london british library additional ms 46919 |
| topic | French Manuscripts, English (Middle) Literature, Medieval |
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