Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Plates vii
4. List of Contributors viii
5. Abbreviations ix
6. Introduction 1
7. ‘Gardez mon corps, sauvez ma terre’ – Immunity from War and the Lands of a Captive Knight: The Siege of Orléans (1428–29) Revisited 9
8. The Brothers Orléans and their Keepers 27
9. Charles d’Orléans and his Brother Jean d’Angoulême in England: What their Manuscripts Have to Tell 47
10. Two Manuscripts, One Mind: Charles d’Orléans and the Production of Manuscripts in Two Languages (Paris, BN MS fr. 25458 and London, BL MS Harley 682) 61
11. Charles d’Orléans et l’‘autre’ langue: Ce français que son ‘cuer amer doit’ 79
12. Glanures 89
13. Le monde vivant 109
14. Dreams in The Kingis Quair and the Duke’s Book 123
15. The Literary Milieu of Charles of Orléans and the Duke of Suffolk, and the Authorship of the Fairfax Sequence 145
16. Charles of Orléans Illuminated 157
17. Charles d’Orléans, une prison en porte-à-faux. Co-texte courtois et ancrage référentiel: les ballades de la captivité dans l’édition d’Antoine Vérard (1509) 165
18. Translation, Canons, and Cultural Capital: Manuscripts and Reception of Charles d’Orléans’s English Poetry 183
19. Bibliographical Supplement 215
20. Index 227