Jean de Saintré: A Late Medieval Education in Love and Chivalry

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n o t e s introduction 1. Jeay, ‘‘Les éléments,’’ p. 90. 2. As Dubuis concedes (Saintré, trans. Dubuis, pp. 13–14), many modern readers may be tempted only by the love story. 3. Medieval readers seem to have enjoyed lists and enumerations; see Jeay, Commerce des mots. 4. Kristeva, pp. 22–23. 5. This manuscript may be viewed online at Gallica, http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/ btv1b6001339w.r⳱antoineⳭdeⳭlaⳭsale.langEN (acc. November 2013). 6. For a detailed description of this manuscript that emphasizes its composite quality , see Jeay, ‘‘Une théorie du roman.’’ 7. The most complete account of La Sale’s life story, culled in large part from autobiographical fragments within his works, remains Desonay, Antoine de La Sale. 8. The first two trips are told in Le Paradis de la Reine Sibylle; for the story of the selfless woman who tends to her leper husband in Pozzuoli, see La Sale, pp. 134–36. On the way that La Sale inserts travel narrative by an ‘‘unreliable narrator’’ into his pedagogic tomes, see Léglu. 9. See La Sale, Le Réconfort (ll. 904–1206). 10. The trajectory of La Sale’s life and travels is provided by Lefèvre, pp. 295–98. We have adopted Lefèvre’s dating for La Sale’s biography. 11. See Szkilnik, ‘‘Jean de Saintré ou le rêve.’’ 12. Parts of La Salade and fully three-fourths of La Sale are close copies of Simon de Hesdin’s translation of Valerius Maximus’s Book of Memorable Deeds and Sayings; see Lecourt. 13. La Salade, pp. 208–23. See the remarks of Lefèvre on this section, p. 137. 14. La Salade, p. 32; for the list in Simon de Hesdin, see Lecourt, pp. 43–44; for Saintré, see pp. 75–76. 15. The stories of the Sibyl’s grotto and of the voyage to the Lipari Islands have been translated into modern French: see Le Paradis, trans. Mora-Lebrun. An edition of Le 210 Notes to Pages xii–xvii Paradis de la Reine Sibylle, from the Chantilly manuscript dedicated to Agnès de Bourbon, is provided in Mora, Voyages en Sibyllie, along with a detailed study of La Sale’s complex narrative and its many sources and analogues. 16. For two perspectives on La Sale’s blend of fact and fantasy in his travels to these islands, see Léglu, and Mora-Lebrun, pp. 218–41. 17. See Lecourt. 18. Such is the opinion of the work’s editor, Desonay, La Sale, p. viii. 19. Lecourt, p. 211. 20. La Sale, Prologue. 21. On the way that La Sale ‘‘signs’’ or marks his works with particular devices or signatures, see Lefèvre, pp. 69–82. His authorial consciousness develops throughout the course of his literary career. 22. Lecourt, pp. 200–203. 23. La Sale, p. 1. 24. La Sale, pp. xxxi–xxxiii. 25. On La Sale’s likely sources, see the Otaka edition (1967) and Szkilnik, Jean de Saintré, pp. 19–41. On sources and analogues for particular passages, see the Otaka edition and our references to Otaka in the notes to our translation. 26. See Glixelli. 27. See Krueger, ‘‘Introduction,’’ in Johnston, ed., Medieval Conduct Literature, pp. ix–xxxiii. 28. See Szkilnik, Jean de Saintré, pp. 19–41. 29. For the Prose Lancelot as a possible source for Saintré, see Taylor, ‘‘Pattern.’’ 30. Szkilnik, Jean de Saintré, pp. 139–55. 31. See Lalande, ‘‘Le couple.’’ 32. On Saintré as chivalric biography, see Szkilnik, Jean de Saintré. 33. On the life of Lalaing as a source for La Sale, see Poirion, p. 112; on Saintré as a source for Lalaing’s biography, Le Livre des faits, see Szkilnik, Jean de Saintré, pp. 15–16, 22–25. 34. On the nouvelle, see Dubuis, Les Cent Nouvelles nouvelles. 35. Saintré, p. 206. 36. Who was brother to Louis of Luxemburg, in whose household Antoine was employed. 37. This sort of predetermined plot and complex mise en scène are typical of the tournaments of the fifteenth century: see Huizinga, Waning; Planche; Barber and Barker; Jourdan. René d’Anjou, La Sale’s long-term employer, was an enthusiast: his tournaments included the Pas d’armes of the Dragon’s Mouth (1446), and the Pas d’armes of the Shepherdess (1449); see de Mérindol. 38. Turnierbuch, st. 27; see Bianciotto. 39. Ed. Lefèvre, pp. 283–341; it survives in just two MSS. 40. For illustrations, see http...