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M I D -A M E R I C A M E D I E V A L A S S O C I AT I O N C O N F E R E N C E

42ND ANNUAL

U N I V E R S I T Y O F K A N S A S , L A W R E N C E

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WELCOME TO MAMA 42!

We dedicate this conference to the memory of Richard “Skip” Kay (1931-July 13, 2018), Professor of Medieval History at KU, and founding member of MAMA.

Conference AdministratorCaroline Jewers

Conference CommitteeAnne D. HedemanAreli MarinaAshley Broke OffillMisty SchieberleJennifer Wegmann-Gabb

and MEMSSA, The Medieval and Early Modern Studies Students Association

Acknowledgments

This conference has been made possible by the generous support of the KU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Hall Center for the Humanities, the School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures, KU Libraries, the Kress Foundation Department of Art History, and the generosity of our colleagues in the following departments: En-glish, French, Francophone & Italian Studies, Germanic Languages and Literatures, History, Music, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Spanish & Portuguese. We would like to acknowledge the help of Isidro Rivera, Professor of Spanish at KU, and the journal La Corónica.The conference was inspired by the inauguration of our graduate certificate program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, housed in SLLC. Visit us atsllc.ku.edu/mems

-Caroline Jewers

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Special Events:

On Friday, September 21st from 5.30-7 there will be an opening reception at the home of Caroline Jewers, 1528 New Hampshire Street, Lawrence, KS 66044.

On Saturday, September 22nd, from 5.15 – 6.30, there will be a reception at Spencer Museum of Art, where the winner of the Jim Falls Prize will be announced.

Special Exhibitions:

Please take a look at the digital exhibition, Books of Hours: The Art of Devotion https://lib.ku.edu/books-of-hours, put together by graduate students from the division of Musicology and the departments of Art History, French, Francophone & Italian Studies, and Spanish and Por-tuguese from Professor Anne D. Hedeman’s fall 2017 HA 510: Medieval Manuscripts and Early

Printed Books in fall 2017. Their exhibit utilizes manuscripts and early printed books from Special Collections in the Kenneth Spencer Research Library. Students included Sadie Arft, Ellen Collier,

Sarah Dyer, Emily Frederich, Indira García, Jacob Hendrix, Ángel María Rañales Pérez, Megan Seiler, and Leslee Wood.

During the conference and reception the students’ books will be on view in a mini exhibi-tion “Books of Hours: Devotion, Contemplation, and Commem-oration” in the entrance to the North Gallery of the Kenneth Spencer Research Library, and several of the students will be there to talk with you. The library’s exhibition, “50 for 50: Celebrating Fifty Years of Kenneth Spencer Research Library,” will also be available for viewing.

WELCOME TO MAMA 42!

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PROGRAMSessions will take place in two rooms in the Kress Foundation De-partment of Art History, SMA 208 and 211, and two in the Kansas Union – The Jay on level 1, and the Pine Room is on level 6. As you exit the doors on level one of the Union, you will see the Spencer Museum of Art. To get to SMA 208 and 211, please walk around to the back of the building, enter the double doors, go up the stairs, then turn to your left. You will find both rooms on the main Art History Department corridor.

Saturday Program

8.15-8.50 Registration & Welcome The Jay

9-10.15 Session 1

10.15-10.30 Coffee Break The Jay

10.30-11.45 Session 2

11.45-1 Lunch & Business Meeting The Jay

1-2.30 Concert & Plenary Talk Spencer Art Museum Auditorium

2.40-3.50 Session 3

3.50-4 Break (no coffee service)

4-5.20 Session 4

5.15- 6.30 Reception

Spencer Research Library, North Gallery

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Saturday

September 22nd, 2018

8:15 onwards: REGISTRATION, The Jay, level 1, Kansas Union. There will be coffee, tea, and pastries available.

8.40: WELCOME

Caroline JewersAssociate Professor of French, Associate Director, School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures.Clarence LangProfessor of African & African American Studies, Interim Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Kansas.

9:00 - 10:15: SESSION 1

1A. Skins: Race and Gender in Early Modern Studies. The Jay, 1st floor, Kansas Union.Chair: Megan Moore, University of Missouri – Columbia (Organizer).

1. Jeffrey McCambridge, PhD Candidate, Department of English, Ohio University, “Reading the Saracen Body: Fierabras’s Conversion.”

2. Dyese Elliott-Newton, M.A., Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University – Budapest, “Invading Shadowed Livery: The Marginalization of the Negro Maid in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.”

3. Lindsay Kaplan, Associate Professor of English, Georgetown University, “The Colors of Muslims and Jews in Medieval English Psalter Illuminations.”

PROGRAM

61B. Second Skins: Medievalism in Performance. Pine Room, 6th floor, Kansas Union.Chair: Robert L. Clark, Professor of French, Kansas State University.

1. Robert L. Clark, Associate Professor of French, Kansas State University, “Jacques Copeau’s Saint François d’Assise: Waging Peace in Wartime France.”

2. Maria Dones, MFA Student, Department of English/Creative Writing, University of Kansas, “Skin Deep: Feminine Agency in Dawson’s Creek’s Arthurian Love Triangle.”

3. William A. Everett, Curator’s Distinguished Professor of Musicology, University of Missouri – Kansas City, “The Skins of Galavant: Performing Race, Gender, and Social Class in a Medievalist Musical Comedy for Television.”

4. Gaywyn Moore, Assistant Professor of English, Missouri Western State University, “Inhabiting Royal Skin: John Ford’s Perkin Warbeck and Medieval Kingship.”

1C. The Anglo-Saxons: Strangers, Monsters, and Skins. SMA 208. Chair: Peter Grund, Associate Professor of English, University of Kansas.

1. Kyle Marie Teller, Ph.D. Student, Department of English, University of Kansas, “Monster in the Middle: The Shifting Skins of Beowulf’s Monsters.”

2. Marcus Hensel, Assistant Professor of English, Bethany College – Lindsborg, “Beowulf and the Palimpsest of Failure.”

3. Nathan John Heydon, Ph. D. Candidate, Department of English, University of Arkansas, “The Exiled Body and Eschatology in Anglo-Saxon England.”

1D. Material Skins: Relics, Reliquaries, and Towers. SMA 211. Chair: Kelly Thor, Associate Professor of Art History, Washburn University.

1. Areli Marina, Associate Professor of Art History, Kress Foundation Department of Art History, University of Kansas, “The White Tower of San Pietro in Venice.”

2. Madeline Rislow, Assistant Professor of Art History, Missouri Western State University, “Meaning in Motion: Containing and Transporting the Relics of St. John the Baptist in Late Medieval and Early Modern Genoa.”

3. Jacqueline Mann, M.A. Candidate in Art History, University of Texas at Austin, “Medieval Reliquaries as Heavenly Skin.”

710.15-10.30 Coffee Service, The Jay, Level 1, Kansas Union.

10:30 - 11:45: SESSION 2

2A. National Skins of the Old Norse World. 208 SMA.Chairs: Matthew Bardowell, Assistant Professor of English, Missouri Baptist University, and Eric Bryan, Associate Professor of English, Missouri University of Science and Technology (Organizers)

1. Matthew Bardowell, “Teaching Old Norse Literature in the Age of Alt-Right Medievalism”

2. Eric Bryan, “Skin in the Game: Verbal Conflicts of Icelanders Abroad in the Medieval North”

3. Michael Nagy, Associate Pro-fessor of English, South Dakota State University, “Geopolitical Posturing: Trolls in the Fornaldarsögur.”

4. Emma Luechtefeld, Undergraduate Student, University of Central Missouri, “The Pagan-Christian Transition of Iceland: Effects of Christian Teachings on Gender Relations and Spirituality in the Sagas and Archaeology.”

2B. Arthurian Literature. 211 SMA.Chair: Logan Whalen, Professor of French, University of Oklahoma.

1. Kristin Bovaird-Abbo, Associate Professor of English, University of Northern Colorado,” Battling Brethren: Mimetic Rivalry in the Middle English Ywain and Gawain.”

2. Jacob Herrman, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English, University of Kansas, “Militarized Borderlands and Imperial Identity in The Awyntyrs off Arthur.”

3. Ann M. Martinez, Assistant Professor of English, Kent State University – Stark, “Animal Skins: Companions and Monsters, the Animals in Arthurian Legend.”

4. Hannah Warren, Graduate Student in Creative Writing, Department of English, University of Kansas, “Shedding the Patriarchal Skin: Feminine Magic and Hegemonic Masculinity in Arthurian Legend.”

82C. Medieval Thought. Pine Room, 6th floor, Kansas Union.Chair: Dr. Irina Symons, Department of Philosophy, University of Kansas.

1. Hugo Marquez, Ph.D. Student, Department of History, Rutgers University, “Integumentum and the Female Body in Twelfth-Century Chartrian Philosophy.”

2. Lora J. Walsh, Assistant Professor of English, J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, University of Arkansas, “Lifting the Veil on Foreskin Rhetoric: Did Medieval Commentators Get It?”

3. Katelynn Renee Robinson, Adjunct in English, Neosho Community College, “Nourishing Odors in Scholastic Thought.”

4. Jason Costanzo, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Missouri Western State University, “Collingwood and Class Overlap: Ancient and Medieval Sources.”

2D. Women as Actors, Readers, and Subjects in the Medieval World. The Jay, 1st floor, Kansas Union. Chair: Virginia Blanton, Professor of English, University of Missouri – Kansas City (Organizer).

1. Mary Jean Miller, Graduate Student, University of Missouri – Kansas City, “Monastic Healing: How Affective Literacy Was Used as a Form of Healing in Medieval Convents.”

2. Natashia Okonta, Graduate Student, University of Missouri – Kansas City, “Demonizing the Queen of Sheba: Medieval Interpretations of the Song of Songs.”

3. Michael C. Morris, Graduate Student, University of Missouri – Kansas City, “Saint Making of Medieval Mystics: Examining the Life and Works of Saint Catherine of Siena and Margery Kempe.”

4. Rebecca Adams, Graduate Student, University of Missouri – Kansas City, “’There is too much of this mastery’: Conducting Agency in Early Medieval Male-Authored Courtesy Poems for Women.”

911:45 – 12.45: Lunch The Jay, Level 1, Kansas Union. For those who ordered online, box lunches will be ready for you. Coffee, tea, and soft drinks will be available for all. There is no other food service in the Kansas Union, though coffee and snacks are available on level 4 at the Roasterie.

12.45-1.00 Business Meeting The Jay. During the meeting, Rich King will pay tribute to the life and service of Skip Kay, including comments sent by Jim Falls. At the conclusion of the business meeting, we will move over to the large auditorium of the Spencer Museum of Art, accessed via the front entrance. The auditorium is on the ground floor: enter and turn right. The SMA auditorium will be used for the music presentation and for the plenary session.

1.00-1.30: Concert by Ignea StrataIntroduced by Caroline Jewers. (Leslee Wood, artistic director, Joanna Ehlers, Lucy Conklin, Kirsten Hyde).

1.30-2.30: Plenary Lecture: “Dermal Identities in the Leg-end of St Bartholomew”Professor Andrew Beresford, Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Durham. Introduced by Isidro Rivera, KU Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese.

2:40 - 3:50: SESSION 33A. Byzantine Studies. 208 SMA.Chair: Areli Marina, Associate Professor of Art History, Kress Foundation Department of Art History, University of Kansas.

1. Barbara Crostini, Uppsala University, “Exposing Christ’s Skin: from Clothed to Naked Crucifixes

2. Jaimie Gunderson, Doctoral Student, University of Texas at Austin, “’What Kind of Desert is This?’: Rethinking Landscape in the Greek Life of Mary of Egypt.”

3. Kurt Sherry, Lecturer, Wich-ita State University, “Garments of Skin in the Triodion: Middle Byzantine Reception of Patristic Thought in Liturgical Theology”

103B. Viriditas: Robin Hood. Pine Room, 6th floor, Kansas Union.Chair: Dr. Marcus Hensel, Department of English, Bethany College, Lindsborg.

1. Kathryn Hall, Graduate Student, Department of English, Kansas State University, “It’s Not Easy Being Green: the Material and Symbolic Significance of Green Cloth in Robin Hood Tales.”

2. Alyssa Cook, M.A. Student in Creative Writing, Kansas State University, “Why Robin Hood: The Psychological and Cultural Utility of the Robin Hood Archetype.”

3. Cailin Roles, Graduate Student, Department of English, Kansas State University, “‘With the might of mylde Marye’: Examining Robin Hood’s Devotion to the Virgin Mary in Early Medieval Ballads.”

4. Susanna Millsap, Graduate Student, Department of English, Kansas State University, “Power in Disguise: Identity Formation in Depictions of Maid Marian.“

5. Jennifer Wegmann-Gabb, Graduate Student, University of Kansas, “From Outlaw to Vigilante: Bringing Robin Hood out of the Greenwood into the Concrete Jungle in the Green Arrow Comic Book Canon.”

3C. Chaucer. The Jay, 1st floor, Kansas Union.Chair: Misty Schieberle, Associate Professor of English, University of Kansas.

1. Wendy Matlock, Associate Professor, Kansas State University, “Permeable Skins: Households as Bodies in the Canterbury Tales.”

2. Beverly Boyd, Professor of English, Emerita, University of Kansas, “Chaucer and Westminster Palace.”

3. Ethan Smilie, Associate Professor of Humanities, College of the Ozarks, and Kipton Smilie, Assistant Professor of Education, Missouri Western State University, “Criticizing Critical Thinking in Chaucer’s Friar’s and Summoner’s Tales.”

113D. Manuscript Studies I: Skin/Reconstruction. 211 SMA.Chair: Isidro Rivera, Professor of Spanish, University of Kansas.

1. Adeline Harrington, Ph.D. Student in Religious Studies, University of Texas at Austin, “The Discarded Skins of Oxyrynchus: Myths of Orthodoxy and Canon Stability in Late Antique Egypt.” 2. Heather Bamford, Assistant Professor of Spanish, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.,”Unprinted: Touch, Reading, and Meaning in Late Medieval Spain.”

3. Leslee Veora Wood, Ph. D. Student in Music, University of Kansas, “Singing a Lost Song: la Cantilène de Sainte Eulalia and Modern Performance.”

4. Megan Moore, Associate Professor of French, University of Missouri – Columbia, “Affective ‘Skins’: Emotional Alterity in the Medieval Mediterranean.”

3.50- 4.00 Break – we will not run a coffee service, but those wanting hot or cold drinks will find the Roasterie open on level 4 of the Kansas Union.

4:00 - 5:20: SESSION 4Chairs: Jennifer Borland, Oklahoma State University, and Máire Johnson, Emporia State University (Organizers).

4A. Undergraduate Research in Medieval Studies. Pine Room, 6th floor, Kansas Union.

1. Hayla May, University of Arkansas at Fort Smith, “Medieval Cathedrals and Flying Buttresses.”

2. Stephanie Berson, Oklahoma State University, “Capturing Christ: Christological Interpretations of the Mystic Hunt of the Unicorn.”

3. Zauvoinna Laddimore, Emporia State University, “How Labels and Stereotypes Affect-ed the Identities of Women and Ethnic Communities in the Middle Ages.”

4. Michaela Wiehe, University of Missouri – Kansas City,” The Chaste Marriage of Monarchs in The History of Saint Edward the King.”

124B. Medieval Narrative. 208 SMA.Chair: Dr. Christine Bourgeois, Department of French, Francophone, and Italian Studies, University of Kansas.

1. Erika E. Hess, Associate Professor of French, Northern Arizona University, “Woven Skin: The Duplicitous Handshake of the Geste de Jourdain de Blaye.”

2. Kathy Krause, Professor of French, University of Missouri – Kansas City, “Women in the Old French Crusade Cycle.”

3. Olivia Cooper, M.A. Candi-date, Department of French, Francophone, and Italian Stud-ies, University of Kansas, “Separation, Connection, Distance, Proximity: The Role of Time in Le Roman de Gillion de Trazegnies.”

4C. Manuscript Studies II. SMA 211.Chair: Patricia Manning, Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Kansas.

1. Virginia Blanton, Professor of English, Department of English, University of Missouri – Kansas City, “Perfecting the Seemingly Perfect: Insertions in Stephen Doddesham’s Fifteenth-Century Sanctilogium Salvatoris.”

2. Cynthia J. Jeney, Professor of English, Missouri Western State University, “’Open the skynne of the hors … þat þou may doo the crosses with-in’: Politics and Horsemanship in The Boke of Marchalsi.”

3. Logan Whalen, Professor of French, University of Oklahoma, “The Lais of Marie de France in ms. S (Paris, BnF, nouv. acq. fr. 1104).”

Conference Closing Reception 5.15-6.30

Spencer Research Library – includes the awarding of the Jim Falls Paper Prize for the Best Graduate Student Paper Presented at the Conference.

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Lucy ConklinSoprano & VielleJoanna EhlersAlto

Kirsten HydeAltoLeslee WoodArtistic DirectorSoprano & Harp

Belle bonne sageBaude Cordier, Chantilly Codex

Lancan vei la folhaBernart de Ventadorn, Troubadour ms R

Onques n’ama/Tant m’abelist/flos filius Anonymous, Grand recueil La Clayette

Au tens gent que raverdoieGautier d’Argies, Trouvère ms K

Thalamus puerpere/Quomodo cantibimus/tenor Anon, Roman de Fauvel

Ay amours Anon, Roman de Fauvel

La harpe de melodieJacob de Senleches, Newberry ms 54.1

Salve Radix Anonymous, Tudor songbook BL ms Royal 11e.ix

Concert Program: IGNEA STRATA

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CONCERT TEXTS & TRANSLATIONS

Belle bonne sage - Baude Cordier (c. 1380-1440)

Belle, bonne, sage, plaisante et gente,A ce jour cy que l’an se renouvelle,Vous fais le don d’une chanson nouvelleDedans mon cuer qui a vous se presente.

De recevoir ce don ne soyés lente,Je vous suppli, ma doulce damoyselle;Car tant vous aim qu’aillours n’ay mon entente,Et sy scay que vous estes seulle celle Qui fame avés que chascun vous appelle:Flour de beauté sur toutes excellente.

Lovely, good, wise, gentle and noble one,On this day that the year becomes newI make you a gift of a new songWithin my heart, which presents itself to you.

Do not be reluctant to accept this gift,I beg you, my sweet damsel;For I love you so well that I have no other purpose,And know well that you alone are sheWho is famous for being called by all:Flower of beauty, excellent above all others.

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Lancan vei la folha - Bernart de Ventadorn, 12th c.

Lancan vei la folha, jos dels abres chazercui que pes ni dolha, a me deu bo saber.No crezatz qu’eu volha, flor ni folha vezer,Car vas me s’orgolha so qu’eu plus volh aver.Cor ai que men tolha mas nonnn ai ges poder,C’ades cuit m’acolha, on plus m’en dezesper.

Als non sai que dire mas: mout fatz gran folorCar am ni dezire del mon la belazor.Be deuri’ aucire qui anc fetz mirador!Can be m’o cossire, no.n ai guerrer peyor.Ja.l jorn qu’ela.s mire ni pens de sa valor,no serai jauzire de leis ni de s’amor.

Now the birds are leaving and the leaves forsake the tree.Others may go grieving, you’ll see no grief in me.How could leaves or flowers be worth my while to seewhen my lady lours and treats me scornfully?I’ve a heart to leave her, but never find the power; mine, I still believe her, through each despairing hour.

All this life’s worth nothing but mockery and scorn.Longing so and loving the loveliest lady born.Who first made a mirror deserves death from me;telling truth the nearer, I’ve no worse enemy.Seeing herself clearer and learning all her worth,daily she’ll grow dearer while I live on in dearth.

translated by W.D. Snodgrass

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Onques n’ama /Tant m’abelis/flos filius - French motet 14th c.

Voice 1:Onques n’ama loialment qui pour tourment fine amour deguerpi; ne n’en joi cuer qui a son volour, nobei car profiter nus ne partoit. Aurement se ensement ne se-mertoit bonement en sa merci car voir en luisant tuit enseignement.

Voice 2:Tant m’abelist l’amourous pens-amentque s’es vengutz e mon fin cor assire,Per que noi pot nuills autre caber.ni mais negus no m’es dous ni plazens.qu’adonc viu sas quan m’aucizol cossiree fin amors aleu jam mo martire.Quem promet joi, lom dona lenquap bel semblan longamen.

Voice 1:Whoever doesn’t love loyallyhe can depend on receiving torment from lovewith no joy in his heart to valuehis nobility profits him nothing.Listening and serving will sow good seedsand in mercy receives brilliant understanding.

Voice 2:So pleasureth me the amorous thoughtwhich has come to beset my true heartthat no other thought can fare there.Nor is any other though now sweet and pleasant to me.For I am hers when the grief of it kills me,and true love lightens my joy; but she gives it to me over-slowly,And has held me long with fair seeming.

Translated by Ezra Pound

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Au tens gent que raverdoie - Gautier d’Argies, 13th c.

Au tens gent que raverdoieToute riens a sa color,Que tout oisel mainent joieContre la fueille et lat florLors di que grat tort avroieSe ne mi resbaudissoiePour amorA qui li miens cuers s’otroieNuit et jor.

Mult est bele et bien apriseCele dont je chanteraiServir la vueil sans faintiseSiens sui et siens esseraiEn li a tant de franchiseQue se la serf mon serviseRaveraiDu cuer qui mon cors justiseL’amerai

In the lovely time when all thingsReturn to their green colorWhen every bird is joyfulAmongst the leaves and flowersIt is then, I say, that I would be wrongIf I did not rejoiceIn the loveOf her to whom I give my heartNight and day.

Very beautiful and well-learnedIs she of whom I will sing.I want to serve her without cowardice.I am hers and will be hers.In her, there is so much dignity,That if I serve her, my serviceWill be rewarded.With the heart my body governs I will love her.

Translated by Lisa Shugert Bevevino

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Thalamus/Quomodo/Tenor - French motet 14th c.

Voice 1:Thalamus puerpere, thronus SalomonisPressus est caractere nove BabilonisRegalis ecclesia sedet in tristiciaRex custodit atrium ut fortis armatusTendit in exilium sanctorum senatus.Hac furnace purius aurum se purgabit,Et confructus Melius iustus germinabit

Voice 2:Quomodo cantabimus sub iniqua lege?Oves, quid attendimus? Lupus est in gregge!Decisis panniculis nostris offert oculisIhesus inconsutilis tunice scissuram,Suam iudex humilis sustinet pressuram.O, quando duscutiet speluncam latronum,Quam tremendous veniet dues ulcionum.

Voice 1:The bed of confinement, the throne of SolomonIs marked by the stamp of the new Babylon.The royal church reigns in sadnessThe king guards the hearth like a strong soldierThe senate is going into the exile of the saints.In this furnace, the purest gold will be purged,And the most just, broken, will flourish

Voice 2:How shall we sing under an unjust law?Sheep, what are we listening to? The wolf is in the flock!Our little rags have been cut off,Jesus offers our eyes to the splitting of the seamless tunic;The humble judge bears his load.Oh, when will he strike asunder the cave of thieves,When will come the terrible god of vengeance?

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Ay amours - 14th century French

Ay, amours, tant me dureLe mal que j’ai a porterEt me grieve outre mesureSanz nesun confort trover!Quant vous m’en pöez sanerEt je de par vous l’endure,Pour quoi m’estes vous si dure?

L’en voit toute creatureNaturelent enclinerPar reson et par droictureA tout ce qu’il aime amer,Et vous que je n’os nommer,Helas! De moi n’aves cure.Pour quoi m’estes vous si dure?

Alas, love, the pain that I haveTo bear lasts so longAnd makes me suffer beyond measure,With no sign of any relief! Since you can cure me of itAnd I endure because of you,Why are you so cruel to me?

One sees every creature incline naturally,By reason and by right To love whatever he loves.But you whom I dare not name,Alas, care nothing for me.

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Salve Radix - puzzle canon, 16th century

Salve radix varios producens germine ramosquos inter ramus supereminet altior unus cuius et ex summo purpura rosa micatqua stant unanimes Pax et Ius-ticia septe claudunturque foras dissona corda senum.

Hail, Root, begetting varying branches from the sprout,Among which one branch rises above, From whose top the scarlet rose gleams;By which Peace and Justice stand enclosed in accord; And the dissonant hearts are closed outside.

La harpe de melodie - Jacob de Senleches (fl. 1383-95)

La harpe de melodie faite sanz melancoliePar plaisier doit bien chascun resjoir pour l’armonice oir soner et venirEt pour ce je sui d’acourt Pour le gracieux de port de son douz son.De faire sanz nul discort dedens li bon acort une chanson.Pour plaire une compagnie Pour avoir plaisance lie de mevir Pour deplaisance fuir qui trop anuie aceulz qui plaist a oir.

The harp of melody is without melancholy,well-pleasing to all who hear, play, and see its harmony.And so I agree, for the graciousness of its sweet sound which has no discord within its well-made song.To please a fine company, to have pleasant gladness,to abandon discontent, which disturbs those who are pleased to listen.