Leiden University Library
16 may 2014, 3-4 pm
Dr. Godfried Croenen, University of Liverpool (Senior Lecturer in French Historical Studies)
Most of the manuscripts produced in late medieval Paris, including the many with historiographical texts, contain a more or less complex system of textual divisions articulated partly by rubrics. Some of these texts include a stable set of rubrics that reappears in most surviving copies, but the textual traditions of others show a wide variety in their paratextual systems. Starting from an analysis of the rubrics in two of the best known historical narratives in Middle French that have survived in large numbers – the Grandes Chroniques de France and the Chroniques of Jean Froissart – this lecture will consider the various functions rubrics had for both authors and readers of late medieval French manuscripts in general and of historical texts in particular. As well as trying to understand why rubrics became a standard part of textual production in the 14th and 15th centuries, it will also look at the particular stages of the manuscript production processes concerned with both drafting the rubrics and copying them into the manuscript books.
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