Charles d’Orléans in England, 1415-1440

Charles, duc d’Orleans, prince and poet, was a captive in England for twenty-five years following the battle of Agincourt. The studies in this volume, by European and American scholars, focus on his life and actions during that time, and show him as a serious and learned reader, a cunning political figure (accomplished in the skills that would impress the English nobility around him), and a masterful poet, innovative, witty, and intensely self-aware. Discussion of his manuscripts, his social and political relationships, his extensive library, and his poetry in two languages reveal him as a shrewd observer of life, which in his poetry he describes in ways not seen again until the Renaissance.

Table of Contents:
Gardez mon corps, sauvez ma terre – Immunity From War and the Lands of a Captive Knight: The Siege of Orléans (1428-29) RevisitedRevisited – Michael K Jones
The Brothers Orléans and Their Keepers – William Askins
Charles d’Orléans and His Brother Jean d’Angoulême in England: What Their Manuscripts Have to Tell – Gilbert Ouy
Two Manuscripts, One Mind: Charles d’Orléans and the Production of Manuscripts in Two Languages (Paris, BN MS fr. 25458 and London, BL MS Harley 682)BL MS Harley 682) – Mary-Jo Arn
Charles dOrleans et lautre langue: Ce francais que son cuer amer doit – Claudio Galderisi
Glanures – John Fox
Le monde vivant – Rouben Cholakian
Dreams in The Kingis Quair and The Duke’s Book – A C Spearing ***
The Literary Milieu of Charles of Orléans and the Duke of Suffolk, and the Authorship of the Fairfax Sequence – Derek Pearsall
Charles of Orléans Illuminated – J M Backhouse
Charles d’Orléans, une prison en porte-a-faux. Co-texte courtois et ancrage référentiel: Les Ballades de la captivité dans l’édition d’Antoine Vérard (1509)l’édition d’Antoine Vérard (1509) – Jean-Claude Muhlethaler
Translation, Canons and Cultural Capital: Manuscripts and Reception of Charles d’Orléans’s English Poetry – A E B Coldiron