Setting a Place in the Cent Nouvelles nouvelles: The Illustrations of Glasgow, Hunter 252

Abstract

Reading MS Hunter 252 as a performance, this article examines the way that the manuscript's illustrations enhance the spatial element of the collection. The case of tale 65 is examined in particular to show how the illustration of an identifiable place contributes to the tale. The illustration sets up multiple interrelations between different levels of diegesis, differrent spaces on the page and different stories in the collection to implicate the spectator (the viewer or reader) in the manuscript's performance.

Discourse on Sexual Violence (Rape) in Late Medieval Short Prose Narratives: The Case of the Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles, Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron, and Johannes Pauli’s Schimpf und Ernst

“…In short, we encounter here typically male entertainment literature, often projecting women as particularly lustful whose desires can hardly be maintained, which leads to considerable male inferiority complexes and laughter about their pathetic performance. Husbands are commonly identified as foolish, ignorant, and impotent, so we could recognize here also deeply seated fear of men about the possible lack of their masculinity (although there is much research literature on the Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles, the peculiar emphasis on sexuality in its countless manifestations has not, so it seems, attracted sufficient attention; see, for instance, Azuela Bernal, 2016; see also the contributions to Devauxand Velissariou, ed., 2016;Emerson, 2017;cf. the contributions to Small, ed., 2023;other valuable studies are Dubuis, 1996;Fein, 2003;Labère, 2022;Staf, 2022).…”