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Professor Luke Sunderland's Outputs (12)

The Restless Orders of Nature: Multispecies Classification in Jean Corbechon's Livre des propriétés des choses (2022)
Journal Article
Sunderland, L. (2022). The Restless Orders of Nature: Multispecies Classification in Jean Corbechon's Livre des propriétés des choses. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 52(2), 253-284. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-9687872

The description of living beings—the “ornements” of the earth in all their diversity—is a central task of Jean Corbechon's fourteenth‐century encyclopedia, the Livre des propriétés des choses, a translation into French of Bartholomaeus Anglicus's thi... Read More about The Restless Orders of Nature: Multispecies Classification in Jean Corbechon's Livre des propriétés des choses.

Visualizing Elemental Ontology in the Livre des propriétés des choses (2020)
Journal Article
Sunderland, L. (2020). Visualizing Elemental Ontology in the Livre des propriétés des choses. Romanic Review, 111(1), 106-127. https://doi.org/10.1215/00358118-8007978

This essay offers an encounter with Bruno Latour’s account of ontological pluralism by way of a close reading of the Livre des propriétés des choses, Jean Corbechon’s fourteenth-century French translation of Bartholomaeus Anglicus’s encyclopedia. Eng... Read More about Visualizing Elemental Ontology in the Livre des propriétés des choses.

Medieval Cultures and Modern Crises: Agamben’s Troubadours, Angels and Monks (2018)
Journal Article
Sunderland, L. (2018). Medieval Cultures and Modern Crises: Agamben’s Troubadours, Angels and Monks. Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities, 23(5), 77-93. https://doi.org/10.1080/0969725x.2018.1513200

Giorgio Agamben is accused of political passivity, but this article argues that he sees the potential for resistance in modes of being inactive and unproductive, in study, play and profanity, which alone can escape the binary oppositions through whic... Read More about Medieval Cultures and Modern Crises: Agamben’s Troubadours, Angels and Monks.

Emotions, History and Presence in Benoît de Sainte-Maure’s Roman de Troie (2018)
Journal Article
Sunderland, L. (2018). Emotions, History and Presence in Benoît de Sainte-Maure’s Roman de Troie. Forum for Modern Language Studies, 54(4), 443-464. https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqy041

Benoît de Sainte-Maure’s Roman de Troie is notable for its long descriptions of buildings and objects and for its focus on the emotions of characters. Drawing on historiographical work by Eelco Runia and Frank Ankersmit, amongst others, this article... Read More about Emotions, History and Presence in Benoît de Sainte-Maure’s Roman de Troie.

Introduction: Medieval Libraries, History of the Book and Literature (2016)
Journal Article
Sunderland, L. (2016). Introduction: Medieval Libraries, History of the Book and Literature. French Studies, 70(2), 159-170. https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knw004

Medieval libraries are studied as collections of books, but much less frequently as collections of ideas. They are somewhat neglected by literary scholars, who tend to define the parameters of their studies in terms of authors, genres, themes, tradit... Read More about Introduction: Medieval Libraries, History of the Book and Literature.

Linguistic and Political Ferment in the Franco-Italian Epic: The Geste Francor as Minor Literature (2011)
Journal Article
Sunderland, L. (2011). Linguistic and Political Ferment in the Franco-Italian Epic: The Geste Francor as Minor Literature. Exemplaria, 23(3), 293-313. https://doi.org/10.1179/174963111x13009808981910

This article proposes a reading of the medieval Franco-Italian epic collection La Geste Francor alongside Deleuze and Guattari's theory of minor literature. A text once condemned as a degenerate hybrid because of its language, which combines forms of... Read More about Linguistic and Political Ferment in the Franco-Italian Epic: The Geste Francor as Minor Literature.

Marcabru in Motion: “Dire vos vuoill ses duptanssa” in Chansonniers A and C, and in Matfre Ermengaud's Breviari d’amor (2011)
Journal Article
Sunderland, L. (2011). Marcabru in Motion: “Dire vos vuoill ses duptanssa” in Chansonniers A and C, and in Matfre Ermengaud's Breviari d’amor. Glossator, 4, 115-130

The poems by Marcabru (fl. 1130-50) and Matfre Ermengaud (d. 1322) illustrate the intertextual nature of the Occitan tradition. This paper compares three versions of Marcabru's text (chansonnier A, longer version in C, and Matrfré's citation). If the... Read More about Marcabru in Motion: “Dire vos vuoill ses duptanssa” in Chansonniers A and C, and in Matfre Ermengaud's Breviari d’amor.

The Art of Revolt: Rebellion in the Works of Bertran de Born and Julia Kristeva (2010)
Journal Article
Sunderland, L. (2010). The Art of Revolt: Rebellion in the Works of Bertran de Born and Julia Kristeva. Comparative Literature, 62(1), 22-40. https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-2009-030

This article proposes a comparison between the ethics of rebellion developed in recent publications by Julia Kristeva and in the medieval poetry of Bertran de Born. Both Kristeva and Bertran see revolt as a continuous and crucial process of transform... Read More about The Art of Revolt: Rebellion in the Works of Bertran de Born and Julia Kristeva.

Le Cycle de Renart: From the Enfances to the Jugement in a Cyclical Roman de Renart Manuscript (2008)
Journal Article
Sunderland, L. (2008). Le Cycle de Renart: From the Enfances to the Jugement in a Cyclical Roman de Renart Manuscript. French Studies, 62(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knm234

This article is a reading of a Roman de Renart manuscript from the often neglected gamma family, which subsumes the narrative to a broadly biographical (or cyclical) framework. The manuscript studied here therefore opens with an Enfances text, which... Read More about Le Cycle de Renart: From the Enfances to the Jugement in a Cyclical Roman de Renart Manuscript.