The Erle of Tolous

Titre:	Ye Romance off Dyoclicyane ye Emperour & ye Erle Beradeo of Tholous, and of ye Emprice Beaulilione (ms., inc.); Erle of Toullous; The Erle of Tolous (éd. Ritson); Erl of Tolous; The Earl of Toulouse
Date:	Seconde moitié du XIV^e siècle
Langue:	Anglais
Genre:	Roman
Forme:	1219 vers (sizains)
Contenu:
Incipit:	Jhesu Cryste, yn Trynyté, Oonly God and persons thre, Graunt us wele to spede, And gyf us grace so to do…
Explicit:	… And evyr more schall bee. Jhesu Cryste to hevyn us brynge, There to have owre wonnyng! Amen, amen, for charytee! Here endyth the Erle of Toullous and begynneth Syr Egyllamoure of Artas.

Manuscrits

Cambridge, University Library, Ff.2.38, f. 63r-70v [⇛ Description]
Lincoln, Cathedral Library, 91 (A. I. 17), f. 114v-122r [⇛ Description]
« Thornton manuscript ».
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ashmole, 45, I, f. 3r-31v [⇛ Description]
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ashmole, 61, f. 28r-38r [⇛ Description]

Éditions anciennes

Éditions modernes

The Erl of Tolous and the Emperes of Almayn, eine englische Romanze aus dem Anfange des 15. Jahrhunderts nebst litterarischer Untersuchung über ihre Quelle die ihr verwandten Darstellungen und ihre geschichtliche Grundlage herausgegeben von Gustav Lüdtke, Berlin, Weidmannsche Buchhandlung (Sammlung englischer Denkmäler in kritischen Ausgaben, 3), 1881, xii + 290 p. [GB] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
Ancient English Metrical Romances. Selected and published by Joseph Ritson, and revised by Edmund Goldsmid, Edinburgh, Goldsmid, 1884-1885, 3 t. (ici t. 3, p. 105-137) [GB: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3] [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3]
Édition antérieure:
- Ancient Engleish Metrical Romanceës, selected and publish'd by Joseph Ritson, London, Bulmer for Nicol, 1802, 3 t., ccxxiv + 215, [iii] + 313, [iii] + 444 p. [GB: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3] [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3]
Middle English Metrical Romances, edited by Walter Hoyt French and Charles Brockway Hale, New York, Russell and Russell, 1964, 2 t. (ici t. 1, p. 383-419) [IA: t. 1-2]
Édition antérieure:
- Middle English Metrical Romances, edited by Walter Hoyt French and Charles Brockway Hale, New York, Prentice-Hall, 1930, 2 t. [IA: t. 1-2]
The Breton Lays in Middle English, edited by Thomas C. Rumble, Detroit, Wayne State University Press (Waynebook, 25), 1965, xxx + 269 p.
Réimpression:
- 1967
Of Love and Chivalry: An Anthology of Middle English Romance, edited by Jennifer Fellows, London, Dent; Rutland, Tuttle (Everyman's Library), 1993, xxxi + 319 p.
The Middle English Breton Lays, edited by Anne Laskaya and Eve Salisbury, Kalamazoo, Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University (Middle English Texts Series), 1995, viii + 444 p. [lib.rochester.edu]
Codex Ashmole 61: A Compilation of Popular Middle English Verse, edited by George Shuffelton, Kalamazoo, Medieval Institute Publications (Middle English Texts), 2008, vii + 655 p. [lib.rochester.edu]

Traductions modernes

en anglais:
- Early English Romances in Verse: Done into Modern English by Edith Rickert: Romances of Love, London, Chatto and Windus; New York, Duffield, 1908, li + 196 p. (ici p. 80-105 et 186-187) [GB] [IA]

Études

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]
Christophersen, Paul, The Ballad of Sir Aldingar: Its Origin and Analogues, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1952.
Furnish, Shearle, « The modernity of The Erle of Tolous and the decay of the Breton lai », Medieval Perspectives, 8, 1993, p. 69-77.
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]
Hülsmann, Friedrich, « The watermarks of four late medieval manuscripts containing The Erle of Tolous », Notes and Queries, n. s., 32:1, 1985, p. 11-12. DOI: 10.1093/nq/32-1-11
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.
Reilly, Robert, « The Earl of Toulouse: a structure of honor », Mediaeval Studies, 37, 1975, p. 515-523.
Stavsky, Jonathan, « "Gode in all thynge": The Erle of Tolous, Susanna and the Elders, and other narratives of righteous women on trial », Anglia, 131:4, 2013, p. 538-561. [www] DOI: 10.1515/anglia-2013-0064
Stone, Thomas M., « "What woman holdyst thou me?" Honor, love and domesticity in the Erle of Tolous », Medieval Perspectives, 17, 2002, p. 203-222.

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