Scholarlink

<p>This article stages an encounter between the late-twelfth-century <i>Tristan</i> narrative attributed to ‘Béroul’ and Bruno Latour’s work on the Earthbound. Through a series of new close readings of two key narrative episodes—the lovers’ exile in the forest of Morrois and the scenes at the ford of Mal Pas—I read Béroul as not just prefiguring, but (p)reconfiguring the notion of the Earthbound, drawing out its relationship with both love and abjection, both care and violence. Ultimately, I argue that Morrois and Mal Pas formulate different paradigms of becoming Earthbound in ways instructive for Latour’s Moderns in the face of the current climate crisis, as the medieval imagines new post-Modern futures. I conclude by considering the Earthbound dimensions of the reading encounter with the text’s principal manuscript, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Fr. 2171, both as a physical and as a digital entity.</p>

错误：搜索内容不能为空，请输入英文关键词
错误：关键词超出字数限制，请精简
高级检索

Earthbound with Béroul’s Tristan

  • 期刊论文

  • 出版模式：

    开放获取

  • 发表日期：

    2025年12月12日

查看全文
  • Matthew Siôn Lampitt

摘要

This article stages an encounter between the late-twelfth-century Tristan narrative attributed to ‘Béroul’ and Bruno Latour’s work on the Earthbound. Through a series of new close readings of two key narrative episodes—the lovers’ exile in the forest of Morrois and the scenes at the ford of Mal Pas—I read Béroul as not just prefiguring, but (p)reconfiguring the notion of the Earthbound, drawing out its relationship with both love and abjection, both care and violence. Ultimately, I argue that Morrois and Mal Pas formulate different paradigms of becoming Earthbound in ways instructive for Latour’s Moderns in the face of the current climate crisis, as the medieval imagines new post-Modern futures. I conclude by considering the Earthbound dimensions of the reading encounter with the text’s principal manuscript, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Fr. 2171, both as a physical and as a digital entity.