
Two Old French Satires on the Power of the Keys
L'Escommeniement Au Lecheor and Le Pardon De Foutre
Daron Burrows(Author)
Legenda (Publisher)
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 1. December 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-904713-09-8 (ISBN)
Description
The thirteenth-century French comic dits of Les Escommeniemanz au lecheor and Le Pardon de foutre are two of the earliest vernacular texts to articulate anticlerical satire against the abuse of excommunications and indulgences. In Les Escommeniemanz, a relentless series of excommunications is promulgated against a broad range of social groups accused of activities ranging from the illegal and the immoral, through the socially disruptive, to the profoundly nonsensical and obscene, while in Le Pardon, a cardinal freshly arrived from Rome offers indulgences to groups whose shocking alleged sexual incontinence appears scarcely to merit pardon. Burrows' new edition of two hitherto unedited poems so important to the understanding of lay attitudes towards ecclesiastical authority in thirteenth-century France is complemented by an English translation and a detailed commentary on the texts' literary, linguistic, codicological, ideological, and socio-historical content and context.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Leeds
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
204 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-904713-09-8 (9781904713098)
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Additional editions

Daron Burrows
Two Old French Satires on the Power of the Keys
L'Escommeniement Au Lecheor and Le Pardon De Foutre
E-Book
12/2017
Routledge
€67.49
Available for download

Daron Burrows
Two Old French Satires on the Power of the Keys
L'Escommeniement Au Lecheor and Le Pardon De Foutre
E-Book
12/2017
Routledge
€67.49
Available for download
Person
Daron Burrows is Lecturer in French at the University of Manchester. He has published studies and editions of a number of Old French comic and satirical texts.
Content
Introduction Notes on the Editions and Translations 1 Edition and Translation of L 'Escommeniement au lecheor 2 Edition and Translation of L e Pardon de foutre, Appendix A: L!Escommeniement au lecheor (Version A ), Appendix B: U Escommeniement au lecheor (Concordances)