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Suggested Reading for ‘Defining the Human’ (FR7)
Primary Texts
Antoine de la Sale, Le Paradis de la reine Sybille
Chanson d’Yde et Olive, in Max Schweigel, ed., Esclarmonde... (1889)
Christine de Pizan, Mutation de Fortune (opening section
Le Conte du Papegau, ed. Hélène Charpentier and Patricia Victorin, Champion
Classiques (Paris, 2004)
Froissart, Jean, La Prison amoureuse (any edition)
Guillaume de Palerne, ed. Alexandre Micha (Geneva: Droz, 1990)
Jean d’Arras, Melusine, ed. Jean-Jacques Vincensini, Lettres Gothiques (Paris : Livre
de Poche, 2003).
Lais anonymes des XIIe et XIIIe siècles, ed. Prudence Mary O’Hara Tobin (Geneva,
1976)
Lais féeriques des XIIe et XIIIe siècles, ed. A. Micha (Paris, 1992)
Machaut, Guillaume de, La Fontaine amoureuse (any edition)
Marco Polo, La Description du monde, ed. Pierre-Yves Badel, Lettres Gothiques
(Paris : Livre de Poche, 1998).
Marie de France, Lais (any edition)
Roman de Perceforest, ed. Gilles Roussineau (extracts, to be announced)
Ovide Moralisé (extracts, to be announced)
La Suite du Roman de Merlin, ed. Gilles Roussineau, (Geneva: Droz, 1996)
Secondary Texts
Bildhauer, Bettina, and Robert Mills, eds., The Monstrous Middle Ages (2003)
Borst, Arno, Medieval Worlds: Barbarians, Heretics and Artists (1991)
Bynum, Caroline Walker, Metamorphosis and Identity (New York: Zone Books,
2001)
Classen, Albrech, ed., Meeting the Foreign in the Middle Ages (2002)
Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome, Of Giants: Sex, Monsters, and the Middle Ages (1999)
Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome, Medieval Identity Machines
Flint, Valerie J., The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus (1992)
Friedman, John B., The Monstrous Races in Medieval Art and Thought (1981)
Fritz, Jean-Marie, Le Discours du fou au moyen âge (1992)
Hahn, Thomas, ‘The Difference the Middle Ages Makes: Color and Race before the
Modern World’, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 31 (2001), 1-38.
Huot, Sylvia, Madness in Medieval French Literature (2003)
Huot, Sylvia, Postcolonial Fictions in the Roman de Perceforest (2007)
Karkov, Catherine E., ‘Tales of the Ancients: Colonial Werewolves and the Mapping
of Postcolonial Ireland’, in Postcolonial Moves, ed. P.C. Ingham and M. Warren
(2003), 93-110.
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Lomperis, Linda, ‘Medieval Travel Writing and the Question of Race’, Journal of
Medieval and Early Modern Studies 31 (2001), 147-64.
Cristina Noacco, La métamorphose dans la littérature française des XIIe et XIIIe
siècles (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2008)
Brigitte Resl (ed.), A Cultural History of Animals in the Medieval Age (Oxford, New
York: Berg, 2007)
Salisbury, Joyce, The Beast Within: Animals in the Middle Ages (1994)
Salter, David, Holy and Noble Beasts: Encounters with Animals in Medieval
Literature (2001)
Simpson, J.R., Animal Body, Literary Corpus: The Old French Roman de Renart
(1996)
Steel, Karl, How to Make a Human: Animals and Violence in the Middle Ages (2011)
Yamamoto, Dorothy, The Boundaries of the Human in Medieval English Literature
(2000)
Further recommendations will be made in the course of the year.
Last updated: May-12