France-msg - 4/24/08 French culture. Medieval points of interest. NOTE: See also the files: Gaul-art, Paris-msg, Italy-msg, Europe-msg, England-msg, Celts-msg, Normans-msg, Jews-msg, Switzerland-msg. ************************************************************************ NOTICE - This file is a collection of various messages having a common theme that I have collected from my reading of the various computer networks. Some messages date back to 1989, some may be as recent as yesterday. This file is part of a collection of files called Stefan's Florilegium. These files are available on the Internet at: http://www.florilegium.org I have done a limited amount of editing. Messages having to do with separate topics were sometimes split into different files and sometimes extraneous information was removed. For instance, the message IDs were removed to save space and remove clutter. The comments made in these messages are not necessarily my viewpoints. I make no claims as to the accuracy of the information given by the individual authors. Please respect the time and efforts of those who have written these messages. The copyright status of these messages is unclear at this time. If information is published from these messages, please give credit to the originator(s). Thank you, Mark S. Harris AKA: THLord Stefan li Rous Stefan at florilegium.org ************************************************************************ From: cjcannon at ucdavis.EDU Newsgroups: rec.org.sca Subject: RE: 'New book' Date: 3 Dec 1993 18:41:13 -0500 Greetings to all ye Fisherfolk! One of my correspondents indicated that he had been passing along bibliographic info. on 'on-topic' books he'd seen at the library where he worked. He was quitting to go off to Grad School, and suggested I take his place. I don't know if I'll be able to do that, but here's one I just copycataloged: Paterson, Linda M. The world of the troubadours : medieval Occitan society, c. 1100-c. 1300 / Linda M. Paterson. Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge Univ. Pr., 1993. xii, 367 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-355) and index. Library of Congress Card no.:92-37723 ISBN:0521352401 ca. $60 hdbd. The dust-jacket 'blurp' suggests that this is the first comprehensive study of Occitania, 'the south of France' and its society. It says that the author's approach is multi-disciplinary and offers insights into issues otherwise unavailable to those without specialist linguistic/literary expertise. I hope it meets someone's interests/needs.--Carol (currently awaiting my info./application packet in order to join the SCA, which means I'm one of those 'infernal' lurkers, I suppose.) Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1995 17:13:27 -0500 (EST) From: Lisa Steele Subject: White Rose Publishing To: Mark Harris OK, you asked: White Rose is a small publishing company specializing in medieval source books, atlases, etc. (we also publish a medieval RPG). Our most recent work _Medieval France_ is a 285 page atlas covering 9-15C French geography, history, society, 14 counties and duchies, useful vocab., common names, etc. It includes 2 full size maps, 14 regional maps, 8 city maps (including a 2 page spread of 15C Paris) and a fair amount of misc. art. It is being used as a supp. text by the history department of a well known college (we don't yet have their permission to say who) and was just reviewed in the Herald's Letters of Acceptances and Returns. Price is $21.95 plus $3.00 shipping from White Rose, P.O. Box 933, Amherst, MA 01004-0933. (Mass. residents add 5% sales tax). We are hoping to release a University source book by Pennsic and have contracted for a Cathedral and a Jewish Communities source book. We are in the market for writers, artists, and public domain art. --Esclarmonde From: guettier at moretcri.ensmp.fr (Christophe GUETTIER) Newsgroups: rec.org.sca Subject: Re: Help with French persona, please! Date: 4 Aug 1995 06:52:13 GMT Organization: E'cole Nationale Supe'rieure des Mines de Paris, Centre de Recherche en Informatique (CRI-ENSMP) Ferro, Non Orro Here are some Langue D'Oc Great Names Southern France Medieval Historical Names : Hugue de Lusignan Adhemar de Monteil Raymond de St Gilles, Conte de Toulouse, Marquis de Provence Guillaume de Sabran Conte des Beaux ... Some Langue D'Oc feudal places : Mallemort Noves (Commanderie Templier) Vaison Carcassone Muret Mons Comps Aigues Mortes Seguret ChateauNeuf (also a good wine) Vitrolles Gigondas Barroux Puylaurens (Cathare place) Montsegur (Cathare place) Barbentanne Boulbon Chateurenard Gordes Cordes Millau .... d'Andaon Subject: Re: ANST - Bill de Provence Date: Thu, 25 Sep 97 23:10:48 -0500 From: Scott Fridenberg To: "Ansteorra" >I just happened to notice this signature line today: >>--Bill (who will soon hopefully have a better name once he can nail down >>some research on 13th c. Provence) For 11c - 13c Provence research an execellent place to start is a book called Pilgrims, Heretics, and Lovers by Claude Marks. Macmillan Publishing CO., Inc. New York. ISBN 0-02-579770-0 The book is an introduction to the Troubadours disguised as a history book. It's very readable and makes an execellent introduction to Provencal culture. This book is prouably out of print so you will need to use Inter-Library Loan if your library doesn't have a copy. In fact if you want to do much study on Provence you will prouably get to know your ILL librarian pretty well. Another good book is The World of the Troubadurs: Medieval Occitan Society, c. 1100-c. 1300 Linda M. Paterson. Cambridge University Press 1993. ISBN 0-521-35240-1 I belive that this book is still in print. I hope this helps. If anyone is interested in research on the Troubadours, I've tracked down some pretty good sources, and would be glad to help. Robert Fitzmorgan Barony of Northkeep Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 10:47:36 EDT From: WOLFMOMSCA at aol.com Subject: Re: SC - De Bello Gallico was: Celtic Dung Fires h940114 at stud.kol.su.se writes: << Speaking of DBC...Has anyone been able to find an english translation of it ? I've searched for it but only come up with smaller parts/extracts on-line which were still in Latin which is not, I'm sorry to say, on my list of languages I'm fluent in. Angus MacIomhair. >> The Battle for Gaul, Translation of De bello Gallico, tr. Anne & Peter Wiseman, ISBN 0-87923-306-0, publ David R. Godine, Boston, 1980. From: "willowdewisp at juno.com" Date: June 29, 2007 12:12:58 AM CDT To: ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org Subject: [Ansteorra] Persona French Here is one of those Victorian books everyone warns you about. I found it fairly correct and it tells you where it got a lot of its stuff (no real footnote) It really gives some good insights into the French medieval world. Also the data is in one place. I wouldn't use it as documentation for A&S because artisans look down on anything Victorian but it will give you a feel for Medieval France. This site has the illustration which seem to be taken form period sources. http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/0/9/4/10940/10940-h/10940-h.htm#ch14 Willow Edited by Mark S. Harris France-msg Page 4 of 4