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Madeleine Jeay



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.


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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

  • Contribution to database WomenWriters
  • See list


E-mail

  • jeaymad[at]univmail.cis.mcmaster.ca



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