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Ipomedon: A Twelfth-Century Romance in the French of England (2024)
Book
Cartlidge, N., & Weiss, J. (in press). Ipomedon: A Twelfth-Century Romance in the French of England. Boydell & Brewer. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.23689313

The Anglo-Norman Ipomedon, composed in the late twelfth century by Hugh of Rhuddlan, is a witty, notoriously scabrous romance, set in the Mediterranean. In a version of the Fair Unknown motif, the work's eponymous hero, the son of the king of Apulia,... Read More about Ipomedon: A Twelfth-Century Romance in the French of England.

Trouble and Strife in the Old French Fabliaux (2023)
Book Chapter
Cartlidge, N. (2023). Trouble and Strife in the Old French Fabliaux. In C. Saunders, & D. Watt (Eds.), Women and Medieval Literary Culture: From the Early Middle Ages to the Fifteenth Century (324-341). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108869485.017

Neil Cartlidgeߣs essay addresses the genre seemingly least sympathetic to women, that of fabliau, to show that the truth is more complex. Fabliaux, Cartlidge argues, deals in what is literally ߢfabulousߣ: its distortions and caricatured, often obscen... Read More about Trouble and Strife in the Old French Fabliaux.

‘Evidence of the Past in the Legend of the Seven Sleepers’ (2021)
Book Chapter
Cartlidge, N. (2021). ‘Evidence of the Past in the Legend of the Seven Sleepers’. In J. Hartmann, & A. J. Johnston (Eds.), Material Remains: Reading the Past through Archeological Objects in Medieval and Early Modern British Literature (57-77). Columbus OH: Ohio State UP

“Scientia vera? Holcot and Chaucer on Astrological Determinism, Magic, Talismans, and Omens (2020)
Journal Article
Cartlidge, N. (2020). “Scientia vera? Holcot and Chaucer on Astrological Determinism, Magic, Talismans, and Omens. The Chaucer Review, 55(3), 279-297. https://doi.org/10.5325/chaucerrev.55.3.0279

This article suggests that Robert Holcot’s Wisdom commentary served as the immediate source for the House of Fame, 1259–70, and the Parson’s Tale, X 603–7. To prepare the ground for these suggestions (which are new), it begins with a discussion of th... Read More about “Scientia vera? Holcot and Chaucer on Astrological Determinism, Magic, Talismans, and Omens.

Treason (2019)
Book Chapter
Cartlidge, N. (2019). Treason. In C. Barrington, & S. Sobecki (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Law and Literature (83-94). Cambridge UP

Holcot, Robert (2019)
Book Chapter
Cartlidge, N. (in press). Holcot, Robert. In R. Newhauser, V. Gillespie, J. Rosenfeld, & K. Walter (Eds.), The Chaucer Encyclopedia. Wiley

Medieval Romance Mischief (2018)
Book Chapter
Cartlidge, N. (2018). Medieval Romance Mischief. In E. Archibald, C. Saunders, & M. Leitch (Eds.), Romance Rewritten. Cambridge: Brewer

Durham (2017)
Book Chapter
Cartlidge, N. (2017). Durham. In S. Echard, & R. Rouse (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of Medieval British Literature. Wiley

Debate poetry (2017)
Book Chapter
Cartlidge, N. (2017). Debate poetry. In S. Echard, & R. Rouse (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of Medieval British Literature. Wiley

The Owl and the Nightingale (2017)
Book Chapter
Cartlidge, N. (2017). The Owl and the Nightingale. In S. Echard, & R. Rouse (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of Medieval British Literature. Wiley

Ripples on the Water? The Acoustics of Geoffrey Chaucer’s House of Fame and the Influence of Robert Holcot (2017)
Journal Article
Cartlidge, N. (2017). Ripples on the Water? The Acoustics of Geoffrey Chaucer’s House of Fame and the Influence of Robert Holcot. Studies in the age of Chaucer, 39(1), 57-98. https://doi.org/10.1353/sac.2017.0049

Focusing on the Eagle's discussion of the principles of acoustics in lines 729–822 of The House of Fame, this essay offers a reconsideration of the nature of Chaucer's engagement with fourteenth-century physics. In particular, it offers a new interpr... Read More about Ripples on the Water? The Acoustics of Geoffrey Chaucer’s House of Fame and the Influence of Robert Holcot.

The Owl and the Nightingale (2016)
Book Chapter
Cartlidge, N. (2016). The Owl and the Nightingale. In P. E. Szarmach (Ed.), Oxford Bibliographies: Medieval Studies. Oxford University Press

Robin Hood's Rules: Gang-culture in Early Modern Outlaw-Tales? (2016)
Journal Article
Cartlidge, N. (2016). Robin Hood's Rules: Gang-culture in Early Modern Outlaw-Tales?. Cultural Dynamics, 28(1), 13-26. https://doi.org/10.1177/0921374015623385

This article discusses the extent to which ‘gang-culture’ can be seen as central to the social world imagined in English ballads featuring the outlaw Robin Hood. Focusing on two ballads from the mid-sixteenth century manuscript known as the ‘Forreste... Read More about Robin Hood's Rules: Gang-culture in Early Modern Outlaw-Tales?.