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MEDIEVAL LETTERS BEWTEEN FICTION AND DOCUMENT UTRECHT STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL LITERACY 33 UTRECHT STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL LITERACY MEDIEVAL LETTERS General Editor BETWEEN FICTION AND DOCUMENT Marco Mostert (Universiteit Utrecht) Editorial Board Gerd Althoff (Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität Münster) Michael Clanchy (University of London) Peter Gumbert (Universiteit Leiden) Edited by Mayke de Jong (Universiteit Utrecht) Rosamond McKitterick (University of Cambridge) Arpád Orbán (Universiteit Utrecht) Christian Høgel and Elisabetta Bartoli Armando Petrucci (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa) Richard H. Rouse (UCLA) Preface by Francesco Stella and Lars Boje Mortensen H F UTRECHT STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL LITERACY MEDIEVAL LETTERS General Editor BETWEEN FICTION AND DOCUMENT Marco Mostert (Universiteit Utrecht) Editorial Board Gerd Althoff (Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität Münster) Michael Clanchy (University of London) Peter Gumbert (Universiteit Leiden) Edited by Mayke de Jong (Universiteit Utrecht) Rosamond McKitterick (University of Cambridge) Arpád Orbán (Universiteit Utrecht) Christian Høgel and Elisabetta Bartoli Armando Petrucci (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa) Richard H. Rouse (UCLA) Preface by Francesco Stella and Lars Boje Mortensen H F British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Contents Abbreviations ix Preface FRANCESCO STELLA and LARS BOJE MORTENSEN 1 Part I: Methods Epistolary Voices and the Fiction of History WIM VERBAAL 9 Medieval Letters and Letter Collections as Historical Sources: Methodological Questions, Reflections, and Research Perspectives (Sixth-Fifteenth Centuries) WALTER YSEBAERT 33 © 2015 – Brepols Publishers n.v., Turnhout, Belgium Lettere fittizie e lettere autentiche nel medioevo italiano (secoli XII-XIV) All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, PAOLO CAMMAROSANO 63 stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. Part II: Before ars dictaminis: The Early Middle Ages D/2015/0095/108 La lettera di Ermenrico tra finzione e realtà FRANCESCO MOSETTI CASARETTO 73 ISBN 978-2-503-55520-1 Un precedente del ars dictaminis medieval: las epistolae de Eginardo CARLOS PÉREZ GONZÁLEZ 85 e-ISBN 978-2-503-56189-9 Printed in the EU on acid-free paper British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Contents Abbreviations ix Preface FRANCESCO STELLA and LARS BOJE MORTENSEN 1 Part I: Methods Epistolary Voices and the Fiction of History WIM VERBAAL 9 Medieval Letters and Letter Collections as Historical Sources: Methodological Questions, Reflections, and Research Perspectives (Sixth-Fifteenth Centuries) WALTER YSEBAERT 33 © 2015 – Brepols Publishers n.v., Turnhout, Belgium Lettere fittizie e lettere autentiche nel medioevo italiano (secoli XII-XIV) All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, PAOLO CAMMAROSANO 63 stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. Part II: Before ars dictaminis: The Early Middle Ages D/2015/0095/108 La lettera di Ermenrico tra finzione e realtà FRANCESCO MOSETTI CASARETTO 73 ISBN 978-2-503-55520-1 Un precedente del ars dictaminis medieval: las epistolae de Eginardo CARLOS PÉREZ GONZÁLEZ 85 e-ISBN 978-2-503-56189-9 Printed in the EU on acid-free paper vi Contents Contents vii Part III: The Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries: Ars Dictaminis The Actual Words of Theodore Graptos: A Byzantine Saint’s Letter and the ‘epistolary turn’ as Inserted Document CHRISTIAN HØGEL 307 Il valore sociale dell’ars dictaminis e il self-fashioning dei dettatori ‘If It Looks Like a Letter, Reads Like a Letter, and Talks Like a Letter’: communali The case of Nikephoros Gregoras’ Letter Collection FLORIAN HARTMANN 105 DIVNA MANOLOVA 317 Da Maestro Guido a Guido Faba: autobiografismo e lettera d’amore La lettre et ses adresses tra la seconda e la terza generazione di dettatori SYLVIE LEFÈVRE 335 ELISABETTA BARTOLI 119 Il Registrum di Paolo Camaldolese: elementi contenutistici e stilistici VITO SIVO 131 Part VI: The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries and Aegidius of Paris and His Two Letters to Bishop Odo The Diffusion of Epistolary Rhetoric GRETI DINKOVA-BRUUN 153 Powerful Women in the Epistles of Hildebert of Lavardin Ars Dictaminis: Victim of Ars Notarie? ROBERTO ANGELINI 167 RONALD WITT 359 Indagine su un disguido epistolare: l’Epistola a Cangrande fra Verona e Padova Part IV: Women and Love Letters THOMAS RICKLIN 369 Essential Issues Concerning the Epistle to Cangrande What Really Matters in Medieval Women’s Correspondence ALBERTO CASADEI 381 JOAN M. FERRANTE 179 Dalle lettere cancelleresche ai dictamina: processi di finzionalizzazione Il pubblico della Rota Veneris di Boncompagno di Signa e tradizione testuale PAOLO GARBINI 201 FULVIO DELLE DONNE 393 Women’s Love Letters from Tegernsee From Letters to Dictamina and Back: Recycling Texts and Textual PETER DRONKE 215 Collections in Late Medieval Europe (Thirteenth-Fourteenth The Play of Ambiguity in the Medieval Latin Love Letters of the Centuries) Ovidian Age (Baudri of Bourgeuil and Gerald of Wales) BENOÎT GRÉVIN 407 MAREK THUE KRETSCHMER 247 Brown Ink, Red Blood: The Plotting of the Sicilian Vespers Queen Kunhuta’s Epistles to Her Husband JULIA BOLTON HOLLOWAY 421 FRANCESCA BATTISTA 265 Irony and Subtext in Latin Letters of the Eleventh and Twelfth Century C. STEPHEN JAEGER 277 Part VII: Late Medieval Court Letters Tra resoconto della quotidianità e progetto di futuro: la lettera come Part V: Documents, Literary Letters and Collections in Byzantium strumento pedagogico nella corte sforzesca della seconda metà and Beyond del Quattrocento MONICA FERRARI e FEDERICO PISERI 431 From Letter to Literature: A Byzantine Story of Transformation MICHAEL GRÜNBART 291 vi Contents Contents vii Part III: The Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries: Ars Dictaminis The Actual Words of Theodore Graptos: A Byzantine Saint’s Letter and the ‘epistolary turn’ as Inserted Document CHRISTIAN HØGEL 307 Il valore sociale dell’ars dictaminis e il self-fashioning dei dettatori ‘If It Looks Like a Letter, Reads Like a Letter, and Talks Like a Letter’: communali The case of Nikephoros Gregoras’ Letter Collection FLORIAN HARTMANN 105 DIVNA MANOLOVA 317 Da Maestro Guido a Guido Faba: autobiografismo e lettera d’amore La lettre et ses adresses tra la seconda e la terza generazione di dettatori SYLVIE LEFÈVRE 335 ELISABETTA BARTOLI 119 Il Registrum di Paolo Camaldolese: elementi contenutistici e stilistici VITO SIVO 131 Part VI: The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries and Aegidius of Paris and His Two Letters to Bishop Odo The Diffusion of Epistolary Rhetoric GRETI DINKOVA-BRUUN 153 Powerful Women in the Epistles of Hildebert of Lavardin Ars Dictaminis: Victim of Ars Notarie? ROBERTO ANGELINI 167 RONALD WITT 359 Indagine su un disguido epistolare: l’Epistola a Cangrande fra Verona e Padova Part IV: Women and Love Letters THOMAS RICKLIN 369 Essential Issues Concerning the Epistle to Cangrande What Really Matters in Medieval Women’s Correspondence ALBERTO CASADEI 381 JOAN M. FERRANTE 179 Dalle lettere cancelleresche ai dictamina: processi di finzionalizzazione Il pubblico della Rota Veneris di Boncompagno di Signa e tradizione testuale PAOLO GARBINI 201 FULVIO DELLE DONNE 393 Women’s Love Letters from Tegernsee From Letters to Dictamina and Back: Recycling Texts and Textual PETER DRONKE 215 Collections in Late Medieval Europe (Thirteenth-Fourteenth The Play of Ambiguity in the Medieval Latin Love Letters of the Centuries) Ovidian Age (Baudri of Bourgeuil and Gerald of Wales) BENOÎT GRÉVIN 407 MAREK THUE KRETSCHMER 247 Brown Ink, Red Blood: The Plotting of the Sicilian Vespers Queen Kunhuta’s Epistles to Her Husband JULIA BOLTON HOLLOWAY 421 FRANCESCA BATTISTA 265 Irony and Subtext in Latin Letters of the Eleventh and Twelfth Century C. STEPHEN JAEGER 277 Part VII: Late Medieval Court Letters Tra resoconto della quotidianità e progetto di futuro: la lettera come Part V: Documents, Literary Letters and Collections in Byzantium strumento pedagogico nella corte sforzesca della seconda metà and Beyond del Quattrocento MONICA FERRARI e FEDERICO PISERI 431 From Letter to Literature: A Byzantine Story of Transformation MICHAEL GRÜNBART 291 viii Contents Christine de Pizan in Correspondence: The Epistolary Exchange Waxes Poetic with Eustache Deschamps MARIA A. SOLETI 445 Memorial de Agravios: Letters of Grievances as Documents in Fifteenth-Century Castilian Historiography SACRAMENTO ROSELLÓ-MARTÍNEZ 459 Abbreviations CCCM Corpus Christianorum: Series Latina: Continuatio Mediaevalis, 1- (Turnhout, 1966-). CCSL Corpus Christianorum: Series Latina, 1- (Turnhout, 1954-). CSEL Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, 1- (Wien, 1866-). MGH Monumenta Germaniae Historica. AA Auctores Antiquissimi, 15 vols. (Berlin, 1877-1919). EPP Epistolae (in Quarto), vols. 1-8.1 (Berlin, 1887-1939). SRG i.u.s. Scriptores rerum Germanicarum in usu scholarum separatim editi, 63 vols. (Hannover and Leipzig, 1841-1987). SRM Scriptores rerum Merovingicarum, 7 vols. (Hannover and Leipzig, 1884-1951). SS Scriptores (in Folio), 30 vols. (in Quarto), vols. 31-34 (Hannover, 1826-1980). SS rer. Germ.Scriptores rerum Germanicarum: Nova Series, 1- (München, 1922-). PL Patrologiae cursus completus ... Series Latina, ed. J.P. MIGNE, 221 vols. (Paris, 1841-1864). viii Contents Christine de Pizan in Correspondence: The Epistolary Exchange Waxes Poetic with Eustache Deschamps MARIA A. SOLETI 445 Memorial de Agravios: Letters of Grievances as Documents in Fifteenth-Century Castilian Historiography SACRAMENTO ROSELLÓ-MARTÍNEZ 459 Abbreviations CCCM Corpus Christianorum: Series Latina: Continuatio Mediaevalis, 1- (Turnhout, 1966-). CCSL Corpus Christianorum: Series Latina, 1- (Turnhout, 1954-). CSEL Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, 1- (Wien, 1866-). MGH Monumenta Germaniae Historica. AA Auctores Antiquissimi, 15 vols. (Berlin, 1877-1919). EPP Epistolae (in Quarto), vols. 1-8.1 (Berlin, 1887-1939). SRG i.u.s. Scriptores rerum Germanicarum in usu scholarum separatim editi, 63 vols. (Hannover and Leipzig, 1841-1987). SRM Scriptores rerum Merovingicarum, 7 vols. (Hannover and Leipzig, 1884-1951). SS Scriptores (in Folio), 30 vols. (in Quarto), vols. 31-34 (Hannover, 1826-1980). SS rer. Germ.Scriptores rerum Germanicarum: Nova Series, 1- (München, 1922-). PL Patrologiae cursus completus ... Series Latina, ed. J.P. MIGNE, 221 vols. (Paris, 1841-1864). Preface FRANCESCO STELLA and LARS BOJE MORTENSEN Multa ... tunc facta memorantur, que scriptorum penuria nunc habentur pro fabulis Adam Bremensis1 n a delightful short story by Henry James (1892), The real thing,2 we are I told of a couple of impoverished aristocrats who offer themselves as models to a book illustrator claiming they are the “real thing”, sitting in perfectly for the social class he wants to depict. But after a series of attempts, the artist discovers that their rigid “reality” undermines his possibility of depicting the truth of real life or to give plausibility to the illustrations for a “real” fiction of a novelist; he ends up preferring a lower class couple who are the real thing in another sense, not being influenced by what they must represent. 1 Magistri Adam Bremensis Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae Pontificum, II, c. 43, ed. W. TRILLMICH and R. BUCHNER, in: Quellen des 9. und 11. Jahrhunderts zur Geschichte der ham- burgischen Kirche und des Reichs, ed. and trans. W. TRILLMICH and R. BUCHNER (Darmstadt, 1976: Ausgewählte Quellen zur deutschen Geschichte des Mittelalters 11), pp. 135-503, at p. 280. 2 Published in book form in Henry JAMES, The Real Thing and Other Stories (London, 1893). ...................................................................................................................................... Medieval Letters – Between Fiction and Document, ed. Elisabetta BARTOLI and Christian HØGEL, with a preface by F. STELLA and L.B. MORTENSEN, Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy, 33 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2015), pp. 1-8. DOI 10.1484/M.USML-EB.5.105110
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