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Dr Catherine Emerson BA, MSc, Phd

Contact Details

Title Lecturer Above The Bar
Address Dept. of French
Arts Millennium Building
Nui Galway
Telephone: Ext. 3801
Email:
ei.yawlagiun@nosreme.enirehtac

 

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Biography:

am a graduate of Trinity College, Oxford, where I obtained a BA in French and History and a Master of Studies in Research Methods (French). Before coming to the Department of French at NUI Galway, I taught at the University of Hull, where I gained my doctorate, and at Trinity College Dublin.

Books

Emerson, C. (2001) Framing the Text: Reading Tradition and Image. Medieval Europe. : Medievalia. [Details]
Emerson, C. (2004) Olivier de La Marche and the Rhetoric of Fifteenth-century Historiography. : Boydell & Brewer Woodbridge. [Details]
Emerson, C. (2006) Artful Deceptions: Les Supercheries Littéraires Et Visuelle: Verbal And Visual Trickery in French Culture/ la Tromperie Dans La Culture Française. : Peter Lang. [Details]
co-edited with Adrian P. Tudor and Mario Longtin (2010) Performance. Drama and Spectacle in the Medieval City (Leuven: Peeters). [Details]

Book Chapters

Emerson, C. (2003) 'Did Olivier de La Marche Speak Dutch?' In: Dewilde, P.; Kindt, S.; Venneste, A (eds). Mémoire en Temps Advenir: Hommage à Théo Venckeleer. Louvain: Peeters. [Details]
Emerson, C. (2006) '‘To Set a Thief to Catch a Thief’' In: Emerson, C.; Scott, M (eds). Artful Deceptions: Les Supercheries Littéraires Et Visuelle/ Verbal And Visual Trickery. Peter Lang Oxford. [Details]
Emerson, C. (2006) 'Are You Taking the Piss(e)? : Early Appearances of the Urinating Boy in the Low Countries and Northern Franc' In: Tudor, A.P.; Hindley, A (eds). Grant Risee? The Medieval Comic Presence/ La Présence Comique Médiévale. Turnhout: Brepols. [Details]
Emerson, C. (2006) 'La Double Vie d’Olivier de La Marche' In: L'écrit et le manuscrit à la fin du Moyen Âge. Turnhout: Brepols. [Details]
Emerson, C. (2007) '‘Pis(s)ing on Intercultural Boundaries: Manneken-Pis and Cultural Identity’' In: Intercultural Spaces: Language, Culture, Identity, ed. by Aileen Pearson-Evans and Angela Leahy (New York: Lang). [Details]
Emerson, C. (2010) '‘The Bridge at Montereau: Assassination as Urban Spectacle’' In: Performance. Drama and Spectacle in the Medieval City (Leuven: Peeters). [Details]
Emerson, C. (2010) '‘A Question of Paternity: Denis Sauvage, Philippe de Commynes and Olivier de La Marche’' In: Essays in Later Medieval French Literature: The Legacy of Jane H. M. Taylor ed. by Rebecca Dixon (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010). [Details]
Catherine Emerson (2011) 'Qui a lu Commynes au XIXe siècle ?' In: 1511-2011 Philippe de Commynes. Droit, écriture : deux piliers de la souveraineté. Geneva: Droz. [Details]
 

Peer Reviewed Journals

Emerson, C. (2003) 'Who Witnessed and Narrated the 'Banquet of the Pheasant' (1454)? A Codicological Examination of the Account's Five Versions'. FIFTEENTH CENTURY STUDIES, 28 :124-137. [Details]
Emerson, C. (2003) 'Au Commencement de mon eaige et du premier temps que je puis entrer en matière. L’Unité du temps et de l’espace dans le récit de la jeunesse d’Olivier'. PUBLICATION DU CENTRE EUROPEEN DES ETUDES BOURGUIGNONNES (XIVe-XVIe s.), 43 . [Details]
Emerson, C. (2004) 'The Infant of Brussels: The Manneken-Pis as Christ Child'. IRISH JOURNAL OF FRENCH STUDIES, 3 :94-108. [Details]
Emerson, C. (2005) 'Five Centuries of Olivier de La Marche: The Rhetoric of the 'Mémoires' in the Hands of Scribes, Editors and Translators'. REVUE BELGE DE PHILOLOGIE ET D'HISTOIRE, 83 :1103-1131. [Details]
Emerson, C. (2006) 'Le Rôle de quelques personnages mineurs dans les Mémoires d’Olivier de la Marche/ The part played by some minor characters in Olivier de la Marche's 'Memoires''. LE MOYEN AGE, 112 (03-Apr):495-506. [Details]
Emerson, C. (2007) 'Manneken-Pis and the Deification of Boyhood'. THYMOS: JOURNAL OF BOYHOOD STUDIES, 1 (2):138-156. [Details]
Catherine Emerson (2011) 'No Way to Treat your Mother: Understanding Petit Jehan de Saintré's Rage'. French Studies, 65 (4):429-443. [Details]
                               

Reviews

Emerson, C. (2003) Jane H. M. Taylor, The Poetry of François Villon: Text and Context. Forum for Modern Language Studies. Reviews [Details]
EMERSON, C. (2004) Joël Blanchard and Jean-Claude Mühlethaler, Écriture et pouvoir à l’aube des temps modernes . MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW. Reviews [Details]
Emerson, C. (2006) Letters, Orders and Musters of Bertrand du Guesclin, 1357-1380, ed. by Michael Jones . Medium Ævum. Reviews [Details]
Emerson, C. (2011) Virginie Minet-Mahy, L’Automne des images: Pragmatique de la langue figurée chez George Chastelain, François Villon et Maurice Scève. Medium Ævum. Reviews [Details]
         

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