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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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That would be me fighting an uphill battle 😅 I think it's very soothing but my students do *not* share this impression
October 25, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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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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Sounds wonderful! Lucky you;) Highlights from my grad course (recent-ish only) were Daniel Wakelin, Kathryn Rudy, Bruce Holsinger, Michelle Warren. Even when (correction: *especially* when) disagreeing on these texts, we had a great time discussing them. Have fun prepping!
June 6, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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The course will be perfectly timed with the publication of two items, on which, more soon: an edition of a feisty exchange of views between a cleric and his beloved, coming out with "Romania," & an article about debate literature, genre, and manuscripts with the journal of @frenchstudies.bsky.social
October 26, 2023 at 7:59 PM
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Images: Oxford,
@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social, MS Douce 308, fols. 18v (Jacques de Longuyon, "Les Vœux du paon," left) and 178r (jeux-partis, right).
Source: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/dd9d...
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A stunningly beautiful and wildly interesting manuscript from Metz, 1310s.
October 26, 2023 at 7:58 PM