Madeleine Jeay

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Specializing in

Medieval French literature, in particular the expression of women in medieval culture and their access to literacy.
Preference for a pluridisciplinary approach combining the study of narrativity and of the popular and religious aspects of medieval culture.
Narrative practices beyond the Middle Ages; close involvement in work on Satorbase.
Lists, a result of which is the Hyperliste database.
Involvement in the development of a research tool for the exploration of databases on the web: PBLit.
The reception of Marie d’Oignies’ Vita by Jacques de Vitry and Thomas de Cantimpré, by groups of lay religious women and nuns all over Europe.

Personal website

Some recent publications relevant for NEWW

Les Evangiles des Quenouilles. Edition critique, introduction et notes Madeleine Jeay and Kathleen Garay. Paris/Montréal, 1985 (transl. The Distaff Gospels. A First Modern English Edition of "Les Évangiles des Quenouilles", by Madeleine Jeay and Kathleen Garay. Peterborough, 2006).
The Life of Saint Douceline, Beguine of Provence. Woodbridge, Suffolk, Boydell and Brewer, 2001 (with Kathleen Garay).
"Marie Robine et Constance de Rabastens : humbles femmes du peuple, guides de princes et de papes", in Le petit peuple dans l’occident médiéval, ed. Pierre Boglioni, Robert Delort, Claude Gauvart. Paris, 2002, p. 579-94.
"Figures de la perfection aux XIIIe-XIVe siècles: les topoi de l'héroïsme masculin et féminin", in Suzan van Dijk and Madeleine van Strien-Chardonneau (eds.), Féminités et masculinités dans le texte narratif avant 1800. La question du "gender". Louvain, 2002, p. 29-42.
"La Vie de sainte Douceline par Felipa Porcellet : les mobiles d’une hagiographe du XIIIe siècle", in Dix ans de recherche sur les femmes écrivains de l’Ancien Régime : influences et convergences, ed. Guy Poirier. Québec, 2008 (forthcoming).

Realized or planned activities/publications in NEWW-context

Preparation of collaborative project including SATOR, PBLit and NEWW.
Participation in the Utrecht Exploratory Workshop, April 2008
Participating, as non-COST-participant, in Working Group 2 of COST Action IS 0901 “Women Writers in History” (2009-2013); cf. COST website.
Bochum, May 2009, "Le double jeu de la dédicace aux dames et des épîtres aux lecteurs dans les recueils de nouvelles des XVe-XVIe siècles", contribution to the third international conference of the NEWW network (New approches to European Women’s Writing) Theorizing Narrative Genres and Gender, hosted by Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
"‘To Promote God’s Praise and her Neighbour’s Salvation’. Strategies of Authorship and Readership among Mystic Women in the Later Middle Ages" with Kathleen Garay, in Anke Gilleir, Alicia C. Montoya, Suzan van Dijk (eds.), Women Writing Back/Writing Women Back. Transnational Perspectives from the Late Middle Ages to the Dawn of the Modern Era. Leiden, Brill, 2010, p. 23-50.
Participation in the Women Telling Nations: 1st Milestone COST conference, Madrid 11-13 November 2010
Participating in the COST-WWIH workshop Bucharest 25-28 April 2012.

Contribution to database WomenWriters

E-mail

SvD, May 2012