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Books by Raeleen Chai-Elsholz
Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England. Edited by Leo Carruthers, Raeleen Chai-Elsholz, and Tatjana Silec. New York: Palgrave, 2011.
Witnesses to the disappearance of a text, palimpsest manuscripts bear the marks of their own gene... more Witnesses to the disappearance of a text, palimpsest manuscripts bear the marks of their own genesis, for their original inscription was rubbed out and written over on the same parchment. Erasure is a prerequisite of reinscription; destruction paves the way for renewal. Thus the palimpsest is an image of the processes of revision and accretion which shape medieval literary production.
This collection explores analogies of erasure and rewriting observed in editorial and literary practices underlying the production of texts from medieval England. Whether palimpsests are the primary focus of study or serve as a metaphor for various phenomena of loss and accumulation, all the essays investigate the process of reinscription.
Articles / Essays by Raeleen Chai-Elsholz
Published in: Miracles. An Encyclopedia of People, Places, and Supernatural Events from Antiquity to the Present. Edited by Patrick B. Hayes. ABC-CLIO, 2016. pp. 220-222., Jan 2016
Published in: Textes et contextes [Online], 10, 2015
http://preo.u-bourgogne.fr/textesetcontextes/index.php?id=1086 This study investigates the pro... more http://preo.u-bourgogne.fr/textesetcontextes/index.php?id=1086
This study investigates the promotion of saints' cults and the controls imposed on them both in Germany and Rome in the first half of the eighteenth century. It attempts to understand why and how a counter-reformation rhetorical approach which no longer reflected the state of inter-confessional affairs came to be re-employed by secular and ecclesiastical authorities in German areas, whereas this approach was hardly, if at all, used in Rome for the same canonisation processes.
Cette contribution examine la promotion du culte de certains saints et les contrôles imposés à la vénération de ces saints en Allemagne et à Rome dans la première moitié du XVIII e siècle. Il s'agit de comprendre comment et pourquoi une rhétorique selon la mode contre-réformiste ne reflétant plus l'actualité inter-confessionnelle a été 'recyclée' sous la plume des autorités séculières et ecclésiastiques dans les pays germaniques alors que, dans les mêmes procès en canonisation, cette approche a été peu ou pas utilisée à Rome.
Published in: Ernst Kantorowicz (1895-1963). Storia politica come scienza culturale / Political History as Cultural Inquiry. Edited by Thomas Frank and Daniela Rando. Pavia: Pavia University Press, 2015. pp. 69-90.
Published in: The Holy Grail on Film: Essays on the Cinematic Quest. Edited by Kevin J. Harty. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015. pp. 98-111.
Published in: La Formule au Moyen Age II / Formulas in Medieval CultureI. Edited by Isabelle Draelants and Christelle Balouzat-Loubet. Turnhout: Brepols, 2015. pp. 327-347.
Essay in English; abstract in French: La forme 'servus servorum Dei' figure à la fois dans des d... more Essay in English; abstract in French:
La forme 'servus servorum Dei' figure à la fois dans des documents issus de la chancellerie pontificale et dans la littérature hagiographique. La 'Sancti Gregorii papae vita' par Jean Diacre semble raconter l'origine de son utilisation en tant que formule d'humilité pontificale. Pourtant, en interrogeant les conventions des deux types de texte, cette étude fait ressortir les paradoxes inhérents à 'servus servorum Dei', révisant son histore et dénouant son association traditionnelle avec l'humilité.
Published in: L'Éloquence ecclésiastique de la pré-Réforme aux Lumières. Edited by Monique Vénuat and Christian Jérémie. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2015. pp. 465-484.
Published in: Identity and Alterity in Hagiography and the Cult of Saints. Edited by Ana Marinković and Trpimir Vedriš. Zagreb: Hagiotheca, 2010. pp. 261-82.
Published in: The Medieval Translator. Traduire au Moyen Âge. Edited by Jacqueline Jenkins and Olivier Bertrand. Turnhout: Brepols, 2007. pp. 179-91.
Snippet: Asked to identify a unifying theme in the Venerable Bede's writings, one could cite his ... more Snippet: Asked to identify a unifying theme in the Venerable Bede's writings, one could cite his commitment to the edification of his readers in accordance with orthodox doctrine. Bede (673-735) was driven by a desire to remedy imperfections in spiritual and...
Published in: La traduction du discours amoureux (1660-1830). Edited by Annie Cointre, Florence Lautel-Ribstein, Annie Rivara. Metz: CETT, 2006.
This essay examines Frances Moore Brooke's English translation (1760) of Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni's... more This essay examines Frances Moore Brooke's English translation (1760) of Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni's 'Lettres de Milady Juliette Catesby' (1759), noting an intertextual relationship with Richardson's 'Clarissa', and interrogating the subtext of lost independence that parallels references to lost texts.
Published in: Reliques et sainteté dans l'espace médiéval. Pecia. Ressources en médiévistique, 8-11 (2005). Edited by Jean-Luc Deuffic. Saint-Denis, 2006. pp. 425-38.
Published in: Justice et injustice au Moyen-Age. Edited by Leo Carruthers. AMAES HS 5. Paris: AMAES, 1999.
Published in: Bulletin des Anglicistes Médiévistes 53 (été 1998).
Book Reviews by Raeleen Chai-Elsholz
Translations by Raeleen Chai-Elsholz
Published in: Space in the Medieval West: Places, Territories, and Imagined Geographies. Edited by Meredith Cohen and Fanny Madeline. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014.
Published in: Space in the Medieval West: Places, Territories, and Imagined Geographies. Edited by Meredith Cohen and Fanny Madeline. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014.
Published in: Jean Pucelle: Innovation and Collaboration in Manuscript Painting. Harvey Miller Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History (HMSAH 59). Edited by Kunghee Pyun and Anna D. Russakoff. Turnhout: Brepols / London: Harvey Miller, 2013.
Published in: Jean Pucelle: Innovation and Collaboration in Manuscript Painting. Harvey Miller Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History (HMSAH 59). Edited by Kunghee Pyun and Anna D. Russakoff. Turnhout: Brepols / London: Harvey Miller, 2013.
Papers by Raeleen Chai-Elsholz
Bulletin des anglicistes médiévistes, 1998
Chai Elsholz Raeleen. Poetic Dream, Textual Reality and What Came In Between Cædmon, Bede and Ora... more Chai Elsholz Raeleen. Poetic Dream, Textual Reality and What Came In Between Cædmon, Bede and Oral Tradition. In: Bulletin des anglicistes médiévistes, N°53, été 1998. pp. 17-32
Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England. Edited by Leo Carruthers, Raeleen Chai-Elsholz, and Tatjana Silec. New York: Palgrave, 2011.
Witnesses to the disappearance of a text, palimpsest manuscripts bear the marks of their own gene... more Witnesses to the disappearance of a text, palimpsest manuscripts bear the marks of their own genesis, for their original inscription was rubbed out and written over on the same parchment. Erasure is a prerequisite of reinscription; destruction paves the way for renewal. Thus the palimpsest is an image of the processes of revision and accretion which shape medieval literary production.
This collection explores analogies of erasure and rewriting observed in editorial and literary practices underlying the production of texts from medieval England. Whether palimpsests are the primary focus of study or serve as a metaphor for various phenomena of loss and accumulation, all the essays investigate the process of reinscription.
Published in: Miracles. An Encyclopedia of People, Places, and Supernatural Events from Antiquity to the Present. Edited by Patrick B. Hayes. ABC-CLIO, 2016. pp. 220-222., Jan 2016
Published in: Textes et contextes [Online], 10, 2015
http://preo.u-bourgogne.fr/textesetcontextes/index.php?id=1086 This study investigates the pro... more http://preo.u-bourgogne.fr/textesetcontextes/index.php?id=1086
This study investigates the promotion of saints' cults and the controls imposed on them both in Germany and Rome in the first half of the eighteenth century. It attempts to understand why and how a counter-reformation rhetorical approach which no longer reflected the state of inter-confessional affairs came to be re-employed by secular and ecclesiastical authorities in German areas, whereas this approach was hardly, if at all, used in Rome for the same canonisation processes.
Cette contribution examine la promotion du culte de certains saints et les contrôles imposés à la vénération de ces saints en Allemagne et à Rome dans la première moitié du XVIII e siècle. Il s'agit de comprendre comment et pourquoi une rhétorique selon la mode contre-réformiste ne reflétant plus l'actualité inter-confessionnelle a été 'recyclée' sous la plume des autorités séculières et ecclésiastiques dans les pays germaniques alors que, dans les mêmes procès en canonisation, cette approche a été peu ou pas utilisée à Rome.
Published in: Ernst Kantorowicz (1895-1963). Storia politica come scienza culturale / Political History as Cultural Inquiry. Edited by Thomas Frank and Daniela Rando. Pavia: Pavia University Press, 2015. pp. 69-90.
Published in: The Holy Grail on Film: Essays on the Cinematic Quest. Edited by Kevin J. Harty. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015. pp. 98-111.
Published in: La Formule au Moyen Age II / Formulas in Medieval CultureI. Edited by Isabelle Draelants and Christelle Balouzat-Loubet. Turnhout: Brepols, 2015. pp. 327-347.
Essay in English; abstract in French: La forme 'servus servorum Dei' figure à la fois dans des d... more Essay in English; abstract in French:
La forme 'servus servorum Dei' figure à la fois dans des documents issus de la chancellerie pontificale et dans la littérature hagiographique. La 'Sancti Gregorii papae vita' par Jean Diacre semble raconter l'origine de son utilisation en tant que formule d'humilité pontificale. Pourtant, en interrogeant les conventions des deux types de texte, cette étude fait ressortir les paradoxes inhérents à 'servus servorum Dei', révisant son histore et dénouant son association traditionnelle avec l'humilité.
Published in: L'Éloquence ecclésiastique de la pré-Réforme aux Lumières. Edited by Monique Vénuat and Christian Jérémie. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2015. pp. 465-484.
Published in: Identity and Alterity in Hagiography and the Cult of Saints. Edited by Ana Marinković and Trpimir Vedriš. Zagreb: Hagiotheca, 2010. pp. 261-82.
Published in: The Medieval Translator. Traduire au Moyen Âge. Edited by Jacqueline Jenkins and Olivier Bertrand. Turnhout: Brepols, 2007. pp. 179-91.
Snippet: Asked to identify a unifying theme in the Venerable Bede's writings, one could cite his ... more Snippet: Asked to identify a unifying theme in the Venerable Bede's writings, one could cite his commitment to the edification of his readers in accordance with orthodox doctrine. Bede (673-735) was driven by a desire to remedy imperfections in spiritual and...
Published in: La traduction du discours amoureux (1660-1830). Edited by Annie Cointre, Florence Lautel-Ribstein, Annie Rivara. Metz: CETT, 2006.
This essay examines Frances Moore Brooke's English translation (1760) of Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni's... more This essay examines Frances Moore Brooke's English translation (1760) of Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni's 'Lettres de Milady Juliette Catesby' (1759), noting an intertextual relationship with Richardson's 'Clarissa', and interrogating the subtext of lost independence that parallels references to lost texts.
Published in: Reliques et sainteté dans l'espace médiéval. Pecia. Ressources en médiévistique, 8-11 (2005). Edited by Jean-Luc Deuffic. Saint-Denis, 2006. pp. 425-38.
Published in: Justice et injustice au Moyen-Age. Edited by Leo Carruthers. AMAES HS 5. Paris: AMAES, 1999.
Published in: Bulletin des Anglicistes Médiévistes 53 (été 1998).
Published in: Space in the Medieval West: Places, Territories, and Imagined Geographies. Edited by Meredith Cohen and Fanny Madeline. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014.
Published in: Space in the Medieval West: Places, Territories, and Imagined Geographies. Edited by Meredith Cohen and Fanny Madeline. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014.
Published in: Jean Pucelle: Innovation and Collaboration in Manuscript Painting. Harvey Miller Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History (HMSAH 59). Edited by Kunghee Pyun and Anna D. Russakoff. Turnhout: Brepols / London: Harvey Miller, 2013.
Published in: Jean Pucelle: Innovation and Collaboration in Manuscript Painting. Harvey Miller Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History (HMSAH 59). Edited by Kunghee Pyun and Anna D. Russakoff. Turnhout: Brepols / London: Harvey Miller, 2013.
Bulletin des anglicistes médiévistes, 1998
Chai Elsholz Raeleen. Poetic Dream, Textual Reality and What Came In Between Cædmon, Bede and Ora... more Chai Elsholz Raeleen. Poetic Dream, Textual Reality and What Came In Between Cædmon, Bede and Oral Tradition. In: Bulletin des anglicistes médiévistes, N°53, été 1998. pp. 17-32
Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England, 2011
However much medieval people valued and depended on the spoken word, an immaterial legacy handed ... more However much medieval people valued and depended on the spoken word, an immaterial legacy handed down with loss or enrichment, the ancient adage, verba volant scripta manent, was nevertheless true then, as now. Yet the inscribed record, like the memory of what was said, could fade over time. Documents could be erased or destroyed. Unlike uttered words, though, effaced inscriptions from the Middle Ages sometimes can be recovered. Because of this, medieval manuscripts that have been palimpsested—their original inscription rubbed or washed away to provide a fresh writing surface—hold an undeniable attraction for the modern scholar. Palimpsests fascinate as witnesses to the disappearance of a text, a scribal hand, or a provenance, and for their potential to yield them up again. They can shed light on the genesis of the existing text, as well as on its place within a tradition and within the history of the parchment on which it was inscribed. The quest for the primary text of a palimpsest opens more broadly onto the pursuit of the origins of a literary work, of what came before, of the history that anteceded the memory that has survived. Erasure is a prerequisite of reinscription, and so it may be said that destruction paves the way for re-creation. Thus the palimpsest is an image of the process of adaptation, translation, and rewriting that shapes a considerable part of medieval literary productions.
Actes du colloque international de Nancy et Metz, 7-9 juin 2012 / Proceedings of the International Conference, Nancy and Metz, 7th-9th June 2012, 2015
Essay in English; abstract in French: La forme 'servus servorum Dei' figure à la ... more Essay in English; abstract in French: La forme 'servus servorum Dei' figure à la fois dans des documents issus de la chancellerie pontificale et dans la littérature hagiographique. La 'Sancti Gregorii papae vita' par Jean Diacre semble raconter l'origine de son utilisation en tant que formule d'humilité pontificale. Pourtant, en interrogeant les conventions des deux types de texte, cette étude fait ressortir les paradoxes inhérents à 'servus servorum Dei', révisant son histore et dénouant son association traditionnelle avec l'humilité.
Pecia, 2005
Symeon of Durham and the memoria of Bede Bede (673-735), the great Northumbrian scholar saint, le... more Symeon of Durham and the memoria of Bede Bede (673-735), the great Northumbrian scholar saint, left a legacy of erudition that was celebrated through the Middle Ages in England and on the Continent. Although his renown was was sufficiently widespread to survive the destruction of Northumbrian holy places, starting with Lindisfarne in 793, it was not until the revival of monasticism in the North under the supervision of Anglo-Norman churchmen that a shrine was built in his honor. The process by which the memory of Bede, his intangible memoria, came to be expressed in an elaborate burial-place, a visible memoria 1 , can be traced in documents from the twelfth century on the history of the church of Durham. Chief among these is the Libellus de exordio atque procurso istius, hoc est Dunhelmensis, ecclesie (Tract on the origins and progress of this the church of Durham) 2 , of which ten manuscripts survive. The date of composition of the Libellus de exordio is unknown, but the earliest manuscripts are from very beginning of the twelfth century (1104-1107 x 1115). It is believed that the work was written by a team of compilers under the leadership of Symeon of Durham († c.
The aim is to understand how narrative strategies enhance the authority of Bede and the Historia ... more The aim is to understand how narrative strategies enhance the authority of Bede and the Historia ecclesiastica (H. E. ), and how they serve as a starting point for the subsequent development of the reputation of the work and its author. 1. The narrative strategies underlying the authority of Bede and the H. E. Are analysed. I also study the narrative authority of other texts represented in the H. E. As well as the circuits of cultural production. 2. The relationship between authority and orthodoxy comes under scrutiny. The way Bede represents the ideal of orthodoxy is given consideration, as is the description of actual events such as ecclesiastical councils. I assess the H. E. In the context of the tradition of salvation history. A study of canonical Easter calculation and Pelagianism provides an understanding of Bede's historiography drawing on the orthodox perspective, itself a basis of Bede's authority.
Cette contribution examine la promotion du culte de certains saints et les controles imposes a la... more Cette contribution examine la promotion du culte de certains saints et les controles imposes a la veneration de ces saints en Allemagne et a Rome dans la premiere moitie du XVIIIe siecle. Il s’agit de comprendre comment et pourquoi une rhetorique selon la mode contre-reformiste ne refletant plus l’actualite inter-confessionnelle a ete ‘recyclee’ sous la plume des autorites seculieres et ecclesiastiques dans les pays germaniques alors que, dans les memes proces en canonisation, cette approche a ete peu ou pas utilisee a Rome.