Martial d'Auvergne
Martial d'Auvergne (* 1430 , † 13. May 1508 ) was a French writer of the late Middle Ages .
life and work
Martial von Paris, known as Martial from Auvergne , was a lawyer in Paris. He wrote a history in verse about Charles VII (France) , also spiritual poetry, and a work entitled The Judgments of Cupid . In it he packaged courtly love casuistry in 51 court cases (with pleadings and judgment, as well as, in later editions, legal commentaries in Latin by Benoît Court) and in this way created a text that is unique in literary history and has only recently been called was recognized literarily.
Works
Cupid's judgments
- Aresta amorum , ed. by Benoît Court, Lyon, Sebastian Gryphius, 1533, 1538, 1546 (with Latin commentary).
- Les Arrêts d'amour , ed. by Luise Götz, Frankfurt am Main, Diesterweg, 1932 (Diss. Frankfurt am Main 1931); Hildesheim, Gerstenberg, 1975.
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Les arrêts d'amour , ed. by Jean Rychner , Paris 1951
- (German) Les arrêts d'amour = The judgments of Cupid , ed. by Karin Becker, Munich, Fink, 1995.
Other works
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Les Vigiles de la mort de Charles VII , Paris, Pierre Le Caron, around 1500.
- Les vigilles du roy Charles ou est contenu comment il conquist France sur les Anglois , Paris, Jehan Trepperel and Jehan Jehannot, 1512 (Historiography of the Hundred Years War).
- La Grant Dance macabre des femmes que composa Maistre Marcial de Paris dit d'Auvergne , ed. by P.-L. Miot-Frochot, Paris, Bechelin-Defdorenne, 1869.
- Matines de la Vierge , ed. by Yves Le Hir , Geneva / Paris 1970
literature
- Vilho Puttonen, Études sur Martial d'Auvergne , Helsinki, Société de littérature finnoise, 1943.
- Emma Stojkovic Mazzariol, Gli "Arrêts d'amour" di Martial d'Auvergne , Venice, Lombroso, 1964.
- Karin Becker, Cupid's verdicts. Law and Love in the French Literature of the Late Middle Ages , Bonn, Romanistischer Verlag, 1991 (Diss. Bonn 1991).
- Kathleen Loysen, Conversations and storytelling in fifteenth and sixteenth century French nouvelles , Bern et al., Lang, 2004.
- Karin Becker, “La danse macabre au féminin: la danse des femmes de Martial d'Auvergne”, in: La mort dans la littérature française du Moyen Âge , ed. by Jean-François Kosta-Théfaine, Villers-Cotterêts, Ressouvenances, 2013, pp. 282–302.
Web links
- Literature by and about Martial d'Auvergne in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- arlima.net (issues and literature on Martial)
- Information on Martial d'Auvergne in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France . (Catalog raisonné)
- Information on Benoît Court in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France . (Bio bibliography)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Martial d'Auvergne |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | D'Auvergne, Martial; Auvergne, Martial d '; Martial de Paris |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French writer of the late Middle Ages |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1430 |
DATE OF DEATH | May 13, 1508 |