@jjungeruhland
Asst Prof of French, U Notre Dame Medieval literature and manuscripts: historiography, debates, narrative Also find me (still) on X: @J_Junge_Ruhland https://romancelanguages.nd.edu/people/faculty/johannes-junge-ruhland/
Dear medievalist and medieval-curious friends, please help spread the good word about a new opportunity to enroll in the Advanced Certificate in Medieval Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. CUNY may not be rich, but we are uniquely rich in medievalists! www.gc.cuny.edu/events/medie... #medievalsky
Colloque – Matériaux « non chronologiques » dans les chroniques universelles. Raisons et méthodes
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Front Cover: The cover features an image of Rome from the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493), which appears with the kind permission of the Binghamton University Libraries’ Special Collections and University Archives, Binghamton University.
New volume of Mediaevalia Vol. 46 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/55917 @projectmuse.bsky.social @psupress.bsky.social @jjungeruhland.bsky.social
That would be me fighting an uphill battle 😅 I think it's very soothing but my students do *not* share this impression
🎓 Étudiants internationaux maîtrisant le français, postulez à la bourse Chambrun-Lafayette jusqu’au 30 nov. 2025 ! Intégrez un cursus de l’École en 2026-2027, grâce au soutien de la @villa-albertine.bsky.social, de @franceintheus.bsky.social et de la Fondation Chambrun ➡ https://urls.fr/7vVUbo
Poster for a course titled "When Humans Meet Animals in Medieval French Literature," including a manuscript illumination of a human eating/kissing a fish (technically a "pirolopus").
Poster for a course titled "Between the Lines: Introduction to French Literary Analysis," with an ink drawing by Edouard Manet of a woman writing.
The final touches on the syllabi are there, and now the only thing missing are students, who arrive this weekend. Here's to a joyful and meaningful semester of teaching and learning! (And no, I'm not sorry for my choice of electric yellow. iykyk ;))
Offre d’emploi – Lecturer in Medieval Literature and Culture (Birkbeck, University of London)
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In this time of job scarcity, LA Tech is hiring. Come work with me! We need a full-time composition instructor (ulsltu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LATECH...) and a full-time Spanish instructor (ulsltu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LATECH...)
Detail from Paris, BnF, MS fr. 20350, fol. 4r, source: Gallica/BnF Rubric with text starting with a decorated initial
Abstract for article. -- This article traces the development of ‘incidences’ in Latin and French historical writing from the twelfth to the mid-fourteenth centuries and describes their functions in the Grandes Chroniques de France. From meaning ‘things that were happening at the same time’ in Peter Comestor’s Historia scolastica, the term went on to designate its own historiographical category. This category is characterised by the anecdotal and digressive nature of the contents that passages qualifying as ‘incidences’ convey as well as by its relation to interpolation and its textual and visual labelling. In the Grandes Chroniques, the paratext is instrumental in identifying a given passage as an ‘incidence’, especially considering that not all ‘incidences’ resulted from interpolation in this text. By analysing ‘incidences’ within this dynastic history of the French kings, this article argues that they served to consolidate historical throughlines by distinguishing between a main narrative centred on kings and anecdotal events that were happening simultaneously but had no bearing on the history of the French crown.
.."Sequence and Simultaneity in the 'Grandes Chroniques de France': 'Incidences' as a Historiographical Category" (@mediumaevum.bsky.social, backdated to 2024) mediumaevum.org.uk/93/2/316
with more to come in the very near future!
Book cover for "Making History with Manuscripts in Medieval and Early Modern Europe"
Book abstract from De Gruyter Brill website: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111557007/html?lang=en
Happy to announce two publications related to medieval historiography:
(ed.) "Making History with Manuscripts in Medieval and Early Modern Europe" (@dgb-mem.bsky.social) doi.org/10.1515/9783...
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Publication – « Making History with Manuscripts in Medieval and Early Modern Europe », éd. Johannes Junge Ruhland
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Sounds wonderful! Lucky you;) Highlights from my grad course (recent-ish only) were Daniel Wakelin, Kathryn Rudy, Bruce Holsinger, Michelle Warren. Even when (correction: *especially* when) disagreeing on these texts, we had a great time discussing them. Have fun prepping!
Very excited that it's coming out!
Vol. 78.1 @frenchstudies.bsky.social just out; I'm honored that my article features alongside great contributions by J. Davison, R. Cooke, E. Lepper, @jonathanwebber.bsky.social, R. Mielusel, & P.-Ph. Fraiture.
"The Practice of Debate in French Literature before Machaut": doi.org/10.1093/fs/k...
Fully funded MA in French and Francophone Studies; applications due January 15, 2024; https://romancelanguages.nd.edu/graduate/french-and-francophone-studies/
Know a bright & promising student in French & Francophone Studies who wants to deepen their knowledge of FF lit & culture, wants to get ready to teach, or wants to become a stronger candidate for PhD programs? Applications for fully-funded French & Francophone MAs @notredame.bsky.social due Jan 15!
The course will be perfectly timed with the publication of two items, on which, more soon: an edition of a feisty exchange of views between a cleric and his beloved, coming out with "Romania," & an article about debate literature, genre, and manuscripts with the journal of @frenchstudies.bsky.social
Images: Oxford,
@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social, MS Douce 308, fols. 18v (Jacques de Longuyon, "Les Vœux du paon," left) and 178r (jeux-partis, right).
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A stunningly beautiful and wildly interesting manuscript from Metz, 1310s.
Plain text - main info: Spring 2024 - Thursdays 3.30-6.15 ROFR 63115, MI 63590, GSC 63115 A graduate seminar on the debates that rocked French- & Occitan-speaking courtly societies 1150-1500 | Taught in English *** Understand mechanisms, strategies, & contexts of debate literature Grasp major themes & tropes Engage with recent & current scholarship Write in major academic genres Acquire leadership & peer-reviewing skills
There's only one thing more fun than creating this poster: creating the graduate seminar that goes with the poster. "Courtly Debates and Disputes: Why Arguing Is Good for You," this Spring at @notredame.bsky.social, cross-listed betw. French & Francophone St., the Medieval Inst., and Gender Studies.