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Johannes Junge Ruhland
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Asst Prof of French, U Notre Dame
Medieval literature and manuscripts: historiography, debates, narrative
Also find me (still) on X: @J_Junge_Ruhland
https://romancelanguages.nd.edu/people/faculty/johannes-junge-ruhland/
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The final touches on the syllabi are there, and now the only thing missing are students, who arrive this weekend. Here's to a joyful and meaningful semester of teaching and learning! (And no, I'm not sorry for my choice of electric yellow. iykyk ;))
Poster for a course titled "When Humans Meet Animals in Medieval French Literature," including a manuscript illumination of a human eating/kissing a fish (technically a "pirolopus"). Poster for a course titled "Between the Lines: Introduction to French Literary Analysis," with an ink drawing by Edouard Manet of a woman writing.
August 20, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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.."Sequence and Simultaneity in the 'Grandes Chroniques de France': 'Incidences' as a Historiographical Category" (@mediumaevum.bsky.social‬, backdated to 2024) mediumaevum.org.uk/93/2/316

with more to come in the very near future!
Detail from Paris, BnF, MS fr. 20350, fol. 4r, source: Gallica/BnF Rubric with text starting with a decorated initial Abstract for article. -- This article traces the development of ‘incidences’ in Latin and French historical writing from the twelfth to the mid-fourteenth centuries and describes their functions in the Grandes Chroniques de France. From meaning ‘things that were happening at the same time’ in Peter Comestor’s Historia scolastica, the term went on to designate its own historiographical category. This category is characterised by the anecdotal and digressive nature of the contents that passages qualifying as ‘incidences’ convey as well as by its relation to interpolation and its textual and visual labelling. In the Grandes Chroniques, the paratext is instrumental in identifying a given passage as an ‘incidence’, especially considering that not all ‘incidences’ resulted from interpolation in this text. By analysing ‘incidences’ within this dynastic history of the French kings, this article argues that they served to consolidate historical throughlines by distinguishing between a main narrative centred on kings and anecdotal events that were happening simultaneously but had no bearing on the history of the French crown.
July 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Happy to announce two publications related to medieval historiography:
(ed.) "Making History with Manuscripts in Medieval and Early Modern Europe" (@dgb-mem.bsky.social‬) doi.org/10.1515/9783...
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Book cover for "Making History with Manuscripts in Medieval and Early Modern Europe" Book abstract from De Gruyter Brill website: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111557007/html?lang=en
July 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Know a bright & promising student in French & Francophone Studies who wants to deepen their knowledge of FF lit & culture, wants to get ready to teach, or wants to become a stronger candidate for PhD programs? Applications for fully-funded French & Francophone MAs @notredame.bsky.social due Jan 15!
Fully funded MA in French and Francophone Studies; applications due January 15, 2024; https://romancelanguages.nd.edu/graduate/french-and-francophone-studies/
December 20, 2023 at 5:08 PM
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There's only one thing more fun than creating this poster: creating the graduate seminar that goes with the poster. "Courtly Debates and Disputes: Why Arguing Is Good for You," this Spring at @notredame.bsky.social, cross-listed betw. French & Francophone St., the Medieval Inst., and Gender Studies.
Plain text - main info: Spring 2024 - Thursdays 3.30-6.15 ROFR 63115, MI 63590, GSC 63115 A graduate seminar on the debates that rocked French- & Occitan-speaking courtly societies 1150-1500 | Taught in English *** Understand mechanisms, strategies, & contexts of debate literature Grasp major themes & tropes Engage with recent & current scholarship Write in major academic genres Acquire leadership & peer-reviewing skills
October 26, 2023 at 7:57 PM