CONTACT INFORMATION:
Professor of French
Department of French
University of Bristol
17/19 WOODLAND ROAD
BRISTOL, BS8 1TE, UNITED KINGDOM
| Office Telephone: | 00-44-117-928-8482 |
| Office Fax: | 00-44-117-928-8922 |
| Active email: | c.e.leglu@bristol.ac.uk |
| Relevant Webpage: | http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/French |
SCHOLARLY INTERESTS:
Current area(s) of research:
Occitan and Catalan literature, c.1100-c.1500, with reference to Old French literature.
Selected publications, recent and forthcoming:
Books:
Between Sequence and Sirventes: Aspects of Parody in the Troubadour Lyric (Society for French Studies/ European Humanities Research Board, 'Legenda', 2000).
Simone de Beauvoir, Les Bouches inutiles: Edition with notes and introduction (Bristol Classical Press/ Duckworth, 2001).
Contribution to edited volume:
'Satirical and moralising poetry', chapter in The Troubadours: An Introduction, edited by Sarah Kay and Simon Gaunt (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp.47-65
Also in this volume: Appendix 3: 'Research tools and reference works', pp.295-302
Selected journal articles:
'Defamation in the Troubadour Sirventes: Legislation and Lyric Poetry', Medium Ævum, 46 (1997) 28-41
'Identifying the toza in Occitan pastorela and Old French pastourelle', French Studies, 52.2 (1998) 129-41
'Did Women Perform Satirical Poetry? Trobairitz and Soldaderas in Medieval Occitan Poetry', Forum for Modern Language Studies, 37 (2001) 15-25
'Tearful Performance: When Troubadours Weep', Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 51.4 (2000) [2001] 495-504
'Vernacular Poems and Inquisitors in Languedoc and Champagne, c.1242-1249', Viator, (Journal of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at UCLA) 33 (2002) 117-132
Forthcoming publications:
Edited volume, with Marcus Bull: 'The World of Eleanor of Aquitaine': Proceedings of the Colston Symposium, April 2003, Boydell and Brewer, forthcoming 2004.
'The Two Versions of Peire de Corbian's Thezaur', in Romance Studies in Medieval Language and Literature in Honour of Peter T. Ricketts, 2 volumes: I. Perspectives on Romance, Epic and Religious Literature in the Middle Ages;
II. The poetry of the Troubadours and their Heritage, edited by Ann Buckley and Dominique Billy (Brepols, forthcoming end 2004).
WUN-IDENTIFIED RESEARCH COLLABORATION THEMES:
Multilingualism in the Middle Ages:
I teach and study texts that combine Occitan and Catalan; I also teach and study texts that enable comparison between texts composed in Occitan, Catalan and French (I also have a developing interest in Castilian and Gallego-Portuguese material (cf. my article listed above, 'Did WOMEN PERFORM SATIRICAL POETRY?').
History of the Medieval Book:
I touch on this area (current research interest in the Jocs florals and their registers) .
Medieval Chronicle Studies:
Ph.D.s UNDER SUPERVISION:
STAFF EXCHANGES/ONLINE RESOURCE CREATION/VIDEOCONFERENCING:
MEDIEVAL COURSES TAUGHT:
MA in Medieval Studies; incldes options on Old French and other texts.
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