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Reynard the Fox

Reynard the Fox

Kenneth Varty

(2000)

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Abstract

There are many stories featuring the villainous hero Reynard the Fox in many languages told over many centuries, goingback as far as the early 12th century. All these stories are comic and much of the humour depends on parody and satire resulting in mockery, sometimes the subversion of certain kinds of serious literature, of political and religious institutions and practices, of scholarly argument and moralizing, and of popular beliefs and customs. The contributors to this volume, all of them experts in one or more of the Reynard stories and their backgrounds, focus on the transformation of these tales through various media and to what extent they reflect differences in the cultural, class, and generational background of their tellers.


Kenneth Varty is Professor Emeritus and Honorary Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. He is the Founder and first President of the International Reynard Society (and currently its Honorary President) and founder and Chairman ofthe editorial board of Reinardus, its yearbook. He has also been Vice-President of the British Branch of the International Arthurian Society since 1977.


“This splendid collection ... edited by the world’s foremost authority on the subject, ... is useful for both scholar and general reader ... A model of erudition and unusually broad-ranging.”   · Speculum

Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
Series Page ii
Title Page iii
Copyright Page iv
Contents v
List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction xiii
Chapter 1. The Satiric Fiction of the Ysengrimus 1
Chapter 2. Rape and Adultery 17
Chapter 3. Morals, Justice and Geopolitics in the Reinhart Fuchs of the Alsatian Heinrich Der Glichezaere 37
Chapter 4. Medieval French and Dutch Renardian Epics 55
Chapter 5. The Printed Dutch Reynaert Tradition 73
Chapter 6. The Flemish Reynaert as an Ideological Weapon 105
Chapter 7. The Ill-Fated Consequence of the Tom-Cat's Jump, and Its Illustration 113
Chapter 8. Choir-Stall Carvings of Reynard and Other Foxes 125
Chapter 9. Reynard in England: From Caxton to the Present 163
Chapter 10. Hartmann Schopper's Latin Reinike of 1567 175
Chapter 11. The Political Import of Goethe's Reineke Fuchs 191
Chapter 12. Paul Weber's Satirical Use of Reineke in Cartoon Form 209
Chapter 13. The Death and Resurrection of the Roman de Renart 221
Chapter 14. The Fox and the Wolf in the Well 245
Chapter 15. The Fox and the Hare 257
The Contributors 269
Bibliography 273
Index of Names and Titles 283