Amis and Amiloun

Titre:	Vita de Amys and Amylion (ms. D, expl.); Amys and Amylion; Amis and Amiloun
Date:	Vers 1330
Langue:	Anglais
Genre:	Roman
Forme:	2495 vers
Contenu:	Version du récit d'Ami et Amile.
Incipit:	For goddes loue in trinyte, Al þat ben hend, herkeniþ to me, I pray ʒow par amoure: What whilom fel beʒond þe see…
Explicit:	… Þe knyʒtes boþ twoo; And for her trewþ and her godhede Þe blisse of heuyn þey haue to mede, Þat lasteþ euer moo.

Manuscrits

Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Advocates, 19.2.1, f. 48vb-61va (A) [⇛ Description]
« Auchinleck manuscript ».
London, British Library, Egerton, 2862, f. 135ra-147vb (S) [⇛ Description]
London, British Library, Harley, 2386, f. 131ra-137vb et 138r (H) [⇛ Description]
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce, 326, f. 1ra-13vb (D) [⇛ Description]

Éditions anciennes

Éditions modernes

Metrical Romances of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Centuries: published from ancient manuscripts, with an introduction, notes, and a glossary by Henry Weber, Edinburgh, Constable, 1810, 3 t. (ici t. 2, p. 367-473 et 478-479; t. 3, p. 364-366) [GB: t. 1, t. 1, t. 2, t. 3] [HT] [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3]
Amis and Amiloun, zugleich mit der altfranzösischen Quelle, herausgegeben von Eugen Kölbing, nebst einer Beilage: Amícus ok Amilíus rímur, Heilbronn, Henninger (Altenglische Bibliothek, 2), 1884, cxxxi + 256 p. [GB] [IA]
Compte rendu:
Karl Breul, dans Englische Studien, 9, 1886, p. 456-466. [GB] [HT] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
A Literary Middle English Reader, edited by Albert Stanburrough Cook, Boston etc., Ginn, 1915, xxviii + 554 p. (ici p. 81-87) [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
Édition d'un extrait.
Amis and Amiloun, edited by MacEdward Leach, London, New York et Toronto, Milford et Oxford University Press (Early English Text Society. Original Series, 203), 1937, cii + 137 p. — Réimpr.: 1960.
Gibbs, A. C., Middle English Romances, Evanston, Northwestern University Press (York Medieval Texts), 1966, vii + 180 p. (ici p. 104-112) [IA]
Édition partielle.
Amis and Amiloun; Robert of Cisyle; and Sir Amadace, edited by Edward E. Foster. Second edition, Kalamazoo, Medieval Institute Publications (Middle English Texts Series), 2007, vii + 130 p. [lib.rochester.edu]

Traductions modernes

en anglais:
- Ellis, George, Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances, Chiefly Written During the Early Part of the Fourteenth Century; to which is Prefixed an Historical Introduction, Intended to Illustrate the Rise and Progress of Romantic Composition in France and England. A new edition, revised by J. O. Halliwell, London, Bohn (Bohn's Antiquarian Library), 1848, viii + 600 p. (ici p. 594-600) [GB] [IA]
  Éditions antérieures:
  - Ellis, George, Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances, Chiefly Written During the Early Part of the Fourteenth Century; to which is Prefixed an Historical Introduction, Intended to Illustrate the Rise and Progress of Romantic Composition in France and England, London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme; Edinburgh, Constable, 1805, 3 t., vii + 387, [iv] + 404, [iv] + 419 p. [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3]
  - Ellis, George, Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances, Chiefly Written During the Early Part of the Fourteenth Century; to which is Prefixed an Historical Introduction, Intended to Illustrate the Rise and Progress of Romantic Composition in France and England, London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811, 3 t., vii + 408, [iv] + 419, [iv] + 432 p. [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3]
- A Wonder Book of Old Romance, by F. J. Harvey Darton, illustrated by A. G. Walker, London, Wells Gardner Darton, [1907], xix + 424 p. (ici p. 379-400) [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
  Réimpression:
  - A Wonder Book of Old Romance, by F. J. Harvey Darton, illustrated by A. G. Walker, New York, Stokes, [1907], xix + 424 p. [IA]
- Early English Romances in Verse: Done into Modern English by Edith Rickert: Romances of Friendship, London, Chatto and Windus; New York, Duffield, 1908, xxiv + 184 p. (ici p. 1-49) [GB] [IA]
- Richard the Lion-Hearted and Other Medieval English Romances, translated, edited and with an introduction by Bradford B. Broughton, New York, Dutton (A Dutton Paperback, D179), 1966, 255 p. [IA]
- Middle English Romances in Translation: Amis and Amiloun, Athelston, Floris and Blancheflor, Havelok the Dane, King Horn, Sir Degare, trad. ang. Kenneth Eckert, Leiden, Sidestone Press, 2015, 289 p.
en français:
- Amis and Amiloun. Traduction de Gaëlle Yvon; notes de Marie-Françoise Alamichel, Paris, TRaductions d'Extraits du Manuscrit d'Auchinleck (TREMA), Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne. [TREMA]

Études

Asher, J. A., Amis et Amiles: An Exploratory Survey, Auckland, Auckland University College (Auckland University College Bulletin, 39; Modern Languages Series, 1), 1952, 28 p.
Ayres, Harry Morgan, « The Faerie Queene and Amis and Amiloun », Modern Language Notes, 23:6, 1908, p. 177-180. [GB] [HT] [IA] DOI: 10.2307/2916575
Baldwin, Dean R., « Amis and Amiloun: the testing of treuþe », Papers on Language and Literature, 16, 1980, p. 353-365.
Barron, W. R. J., English Medieval Romance, London et New York, Longman (Longman Literature in English Series), 1987, xiv + 288 p. [IA]
Calin, William, The French Tradition and the Literature of Medieval England, Toronto, Buffalo et London, University of Toronto Press (University of Toronto Romance Series), 1994, xvi + 587 p. [IA]
Clifton, Nicole, Kynde Innocence: Children in Old French and Middle English Romance, Ph. D. dissertation, Cornell University, Ithaca, 1993, vi + 287 p. [PQ]
Dannenbaum, Susan, « Insular tradition in the story of Amis and Amiloun », Neophilologus, 67:4, 1983, p. 611-622. DOI: 10.1007/BF02352420
Delany, Sheila, « A, A and B: coding same-sex union in Amis and Amiloun », Pulp Fictions of Medieval England: Essays in Popular Romance, éd. Nicola McDonald, Manchester et New York, Manchester University Press, 2004, p. 63-81. [oapen.org]
Eckert, Ken, « Amis and Amiloun: a spiritual journey and the failure of treuþe », Literature and Theology, 27:3, 2013, p. 285-296. DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frt026
Fewster, C. S., Narrative Transformations of Past and Present in Middle English Romance: Guy of Warwick, Amis and Amiloun, and the Squyr of Lowe Degre, Liverpool, University of Liverpool, 1984.
Ford, John C., « Contrasting the identical: differentiation of the "indistinguishable" characters of Amis and Amiloun », Neophilologus, 86:2, 2002, p. 311-323. DOI: 10.1023/a:1014428421031
Ford, John C., « A new conception of poetic formulae based on prototype theory and the mental template », Neuphilologishche Mitteilungen, 103, 2002, p. 205–226.
Ford, John C., « Merry married brothers: wedded friendship, lovers' language and male matrimonials in two Middle English romances », Medieval Forum, 3, 2003. [www]
Ford, John C., « Metatextual evidence of a relationship between the Anglo-Norman version of Amys e Amilliyoun in ms Karlsruhe 345 and the Middle English text of Amis and Amiloun in ms Auchinleck W. 4. 1 », Pecia, 4, 2004, p. 19-45. DOI: 10.1484/j.pecia.5.101604
Haught, Leah, « In pursuit of "trewth": ambiguity and meaning in Amis and Amiloun », The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 114:2, 2015, p. 240-260. DOI: 10.5406/jenglgermphil.114.2.0240
Heather, P. J., « Sworn-brotherhood », Folklore, 63, 1952, p. 158-172.
Hibbard (Loomis), Laura A., Mediæval Romance in England: A Study of the Sources and Analogues of the Non-Cyclic Metrical Romances. New edition with supplementary bibliographical index (1926-1959), New York, Franklin (Burt Franklin Bibliographical Reference Series, 17), 1963, viii + 350 p. [IA]
Éditions antérieures:
- Hibbard, Laura A., Mediæval Romance in England: A Study of the Sources and Analogues of the Non-Cyclic Metrical Romances, New York, Oxford University Press, 1924, viii + 342 p. [HT] [IA]
- Hibbard (Loomis), Laura A., Mediæval Romance in England: A Study of the Sources and Analogues of the Non-Cyclic Metrical Romances. New edition with supplementary bibliographical index (1926-1959), New York, Franklin (Burt Franklin Bibliographical Reference Series, 17), 1960, viii + 350 p. [HT] [IA]
Higgins, Ann Margaret, The Mark of the Hero: Language and Identity in the Middle English Romance, Ph. D. dissertation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2006, viii + 283 p. [PQ]
Hume, Kathryn, « Amis and Amiloun and the aesthetics of Middle English romance », Studies in Philology, 70:1, 1973, p. 19-41. [jstor.org]
Hume, Kathryn, « The composition of a medieval romance: Walter Map's Sadius And Galo », Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 76:3, 1975, p. 415-423. [jstor.org]
Johnston, Alexandra F., « Amys and Amylon at Bicester Priory », Records of Early English Drama Newsletter, 18:2, 1993, p. 15–18.
Jost, Jean E., « Hearing the female voice: transgression in Amis and Amiloun », Medieval Perspectives, 10, 1995, p. 116-132.
Kanzler, Cheryl, "Amis and Amiloun", roman de l'amitié à l'époque moyen-anglaise, thèse de doctorat, Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne, 1986.
Kölbing, E., « Zur Ueberlieferung der Sage von Amicus und Amelius », Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur, 4, 1877, p. 271-314. [GB] [HT] [IA] DOI: 10.1515/bgsl.1877.1877.4.271
Kölbing, E., « Zu Amis and Amilloun », Englische Studien, 2, 1879, p. 295-310. [GB] [HT] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
Kölbing, E., « Kleine Beiträge zur Erklärung, Textkritik und Phraseologie mittelenglischer Dichter », Englische Studien, 13, 1889, p. 133-140. (ici p. 134-135) [GB] [HT] [IA]
Kramer, Dale, « Structural artistry in Amis and Amiloun », Annuale Medioevale, 9, 1968, p. 103-122.
Kratins, Ojars, « The Middle English Amis and Amiloun: chivalric romance or secular hagiography? », PMLA, 81:5, 1966, p. 347-354. DOI: 10.2307/460823
Le Saux, Françoise, « From Ami to Amys: translation and adaptation in the Middle English Amys and Amylion », The Formation of Culture in Medieval Britain: Celtic, Latin and Norman Influences on English Music, Literature, History and Art, éd. Françoise Le Saux, Lampeter, Edwin Mellen Press, 1995, p. 111-127.
Mann, Jill, « Messianic chivalry in Amis and Amiloun », New Medieval Literatures, 10, 2008, p. 137-159. DOI: 10.1484/j.nml.2.305800
Mehl, Dieter, Die mittelenglischen Romanzen des 13. und 14. Jahrhunderts, Heidelberg, Winter (Anglistische Forschungen, 93), 1967, 229 p.
Traduction:
- Mehl, Dieter, The middle English Romances of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1968, 300 p.
Möller, Wilhelm, Untersuchungen über Dialekt und Stil des mittelenglischen "Guy of Warwick" in der Fassung der Auchinleck-Handschrift und über das Verhältnis des strophischen Teiles des "Guy" zu der mittelenglischen Romanze "Amis and Amiloun", Königsberg i. Pr., Hartungsche Buchdruckerei, 1917, [iii] + 107 p. [HT] [IA]
Pearman, Tory Vandeventer, « Heterosyncrasy as a way of life: disability and the heterosyncratic community in Amis and Amiloun », New Medieval Literatures, 15, 2013, p. 285-312. [www] DOI: 10.1484/J.NML.5.103457
Perkins, Nicholas, The Gift of Narrative in Medieval England, Manchester, Manchester University Press (Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture), 2021, x + 270 p.
Compte rendu:
Timothy S. Miller, dans The Medieval Review, 22.08.17, 2022. [www]
Stewart, Vaughn, « Friends, rivals, and revisions: Chaucer's Squire's Tale and Amis and Amiloun in The Faerie Queene, book IV », Spenser Studies, 26, 2011, p. 75-109. DOI: 10.7756/spst.026.004.75-109
Yoon, Ju Ok, « Leprosy, miracles, and morality in Amis and Amiloun », Medieval and Early Modern English Studies, 18, 2010, p. 29-56.

Version anglaise du récit d'Ami et Amile

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