Medieval Autographies: The "I" of the Text

Index

333 i n d e X abbott, h. porter, 34–35, 274n4 abelard, peter, Historia calamitatum, 34–35, 275n7 absolute constructions, 167–68, 190, 192–93 adams, Jon-K., 2 alan of lille, De planctu Naturae, 15–16, 21, 271n30 alberti, leon Battista, 104, 106–7 allegory, 25–26, 28, 267, 296n34 alliterative poetry, 9, 19, 24, 30–31 allman, W. W., 278n40 ambrose, saint, 216, 241, 245 amis, Martin, 103 amplification, 30–31 anagrams, 58–59, 63, 282n67 anne of Bohemia, 125 artes praedicandi, 258 asl (american sign language), 10 auctour, 226–27, 265 augustine, saint, 35, 157, 172 augustinian friars, 209–11, 227, 233, 264, 303n26, 304n30 author/narrator binary, 16 autobiography, 74, 99–101, 131, 158, 169, 219, 231, 233, 238, 256, 293n10, 300n8, 304n30 contrasted with autography, 7, 33–34, 36–37, 145, 274n4 definition of, 35, 174 imprisonment and, 100–101 not visible goal in Middle ages, 64, 99, 101 psychological disturbance and, 101 reveals unintended truths, 34–36 autography, 6, 51 appeal of, 9, 99–127 autographs and, 276n13 beginnings, 8–9, 19–20, 32 contrasted with heterodiegesis, 85 definition of, 1, 7, 33–36, 84, 276n13 in dream poems, 39 the feminine and, 126–27, 300n21 freedom from structure, 39 indeterminacy of tone, 133 move towards autobiography, 99–101, 158, 173 move towards individualism, 38 pre-Conquest, 8 prologues, 39, 51–53 resistance to monadic, 36–37 unfixed “i,” 199 writing as theme of, 9, 22. see also méta-écriture Badby, John, 138, 142, 150 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 112–13 Bale, anthony, 274n64 Banfield, ann, 22, 177 unspeakable sentences, 66–67, 166, 283n1 Barbour, John, Bruce, 6–7 Barolini, teodolinda, 104 Barthes, roland on writing, 270n21 reality effect, 21 334 Index Baswell, Christopher, 80 Batt, Catherine, 133–34, 181 Baumgartner, emmanuèle, 55 Beatrice of nazareth, 284n11 Beaufort, Joan, 100, 294n19 Beckett, samuel, 274n4 Bennett, J. a. W., 51, 280n45 Benson, larry d., 123–25 Benveniste, emile, 10 Beowulf, 31 Bestul, thomas h., 29 Black prince, 23, 27 Bloch, r. howard, 288n52 Blyth, Charles r., 166–67, 298n44 Boccaccio, giovanni, 23, 109–10, 118 Decameron, 109 Filostrato, 121, 260–63 Teseida, 42 Boethius, 110, 118, 125, 126, 146, 288n53, 296n35 De consolatione philosophiae, 115, 125–26, 146–47, 288n16, 296n36, 305n45 Boffey, Julia, 7 Bokenham, osbern, 52, 108, 127, 209–56, 260, 263 on agatha, saint, 225 on agnes, saint, 249 —humility topos, 241–42 —“i” of, 216 —in prologue, 216, 220–21, 241–45, 303n17 on anne, saint, 213, 249, 304n33 —mentions Claudian, 221 —modesty topos, 239–40 —outdoing Chaucer, 240 —in prologue, 213, 218, 229, 239–41 arundel Ms, 209–20, 224, 236–37, 243, 245–46, 249, 302n11, 304n33 as auctour, 226–27 autographic passages, 223–56 and Chaucer, 224–25, 234–35, 238, 240, 304n27 and Chaucer tradition, 217–21, 239, 241, 255 on Christina, saint, 249 dialect, 242–43 discovery in 2004 of abbotsford Ms, 209, 214–16, 302n11 on dorothy, saint, 214, 249 eleven thousand virgins, 249 on elizabeth of hungary, saint, 216, 219–20, 228, 249, 254–56, 303n16 on Faith, saint, 249 and geoffrey of vinsauf, 228–30 humanism, 304n34 on Katherine, saint, 225, 235 on laurence, saint, 215 Legendys of Hooly Wummen, 210–17 life of, 209–10 Mappula Angliae, 214 on Margaret, saint, 213, 216, 221–23, 235–38, 303n17 —as “aristotelian” accessus, 226–27, 231, 233 —autographic passage in, 236–38 —as dit, 227, 233 —as entertainment, 221–23 —“i” of, 230–33 —present of writing, 233 —in prologue, 211, 213, 216–17, 226–34, 302n1 —on writing as labor, 236–37 on Mary Magdalene, saint, 210–11, 224 —“prolocutory,” 229, 242, 246–54 material textuality, 255–56 and Matthew of vendôme, 303n23 meter, 220–21, 223, 233, 236, 238–40, 254 Index 335 political interpretations, 212–13, 216 and rhetoric, 229–30 self-impersonation, 238 and sources, 224–25, 238 as storyteller, 221–23 supposed narrator, 225 supposed rejection of rhetoric, 243–47 supposed structure of arundel Legendys, 211–17, 302n11 syntax of, 247, 253 on ursula, saint, 235 on Winifred, saint, 215 word order, 244, 253 writing and speech, 227–28 Bourchier, isabel, Countess of eu, 211, 247, 250, 254, 305n40 Bowers, John M., 132–33, 151, 276n13, 294n12, 295n31, 296n40 Boyd, david lorenzo, 138 Bradley, a. C., 285n31 bricolage, 84, 123, 142 Bridges, Margaret, 304n29 Brooks, peter, 102, 289n7 Browning, robert, 13, 83–84 Brownlee, Kevin...