Background
Rosenberg, Samuel Nathan was born on January 19, 1936 in New York City. Son of Israel and Etta (Friedland) Rosenberg.
(This prose translation of the medieval French verse narra...)
This prose translation of the medieval French verse narrative Ami and Amile recounts the legendary friendship of two valiant knights who are as indistinguishable as twin brothers. Ami and Amile serve Charlemagne together, face together the hatred of an archetypal villain, confront the daunting challenges of women and love, and accept extraordinary sacrifices for each other's sake. Miracles mark th...
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( The Roman de Fauvel describes the career of Fauvel, a h...)
The Roman de Fauvel describes the career of Fauvel, a horse-like figure whose overweening ambitions lead the writer to lament the evils of the world. He excites the attentions of the rich and powerful, presumes to court Lady Fortune, and provokes all kinds of outrage and grief. His very name is an anagram for Flaterie, Avarice, Vilanie, Variété (fickleness), Envie, and Lacheté (cowardice). A long poetic narrative enlivened by polyphonic and monophonic songs, chants, and pictures, the Roman makes use of allegory and satire to express vehement moral criticism of the late medieval royal court and Church. This is the first modern, critical edition of the monophonic songs collected in the Roman de Fauvel in the early fourteenth century. Samuel N. Rosenberg and Hans Tischler set out to establish and interpret the lyrics and music of all the monophonic pieces, some seventy in all. Accompanying the full poetic and music texts are their English translations from the original Latin and French. This edition represents the kinds of close collaboration between philologist and musicologist that the Fauvel songs call fro but have never before received. Illustrating a wide variety of form and styles—including chivalric love songs, dance pieces, ballades, rondeaux, and nonsense compositions—The Monophonic Songs in the Roman de Fauvel is an extraordinary valuable anthology of music and a treasure trove of information about the period.
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(The deeply resonant love story of Sir Lancelot and King A...)
The deeply resonant love story of Sir Lancelot and King Arthur's wife, Queen Guenevere, has had enduring appeal ever since it was invented in the 12th-century by the French writer Chrétien de Troyes. The protagonists became a model of ill-fated adulterers whose irresistible love led not only themselves but their entire world to perdition. The tale has been told and retold over the years in many languages and forms; the most provocative and elaborate version is in the immense suite of early-13th-century French narratives collectively called the Lancelot-Grail or Arthurian Vulgate Cycle. Related here is the whole wondrous, adventure-filled, mythic history of Arthur and his chivalric kingdom. The anonymous author of the massive section devoted to Lancelot expanded the triangle Arthur-Guenevere-Lancelot into a rectangle, adding a figure named Galehaut, Lord of the Distant Isles, a powerful political and military foe to Arthur and a rival to Guenevere for the love of Lancelot. It is an extraordinary tale, this overlapping love story, which is recounted with an understanding of human desires and aspirations unprecedented in its depth and richness. For love of Lancelot, Galehaut surrenders his political ambitions, voluntarily submitting to the rule of Arthur; the same love leads him to facilitate the rapprochement of Lancelot and the Queen. The invincible Lord of the Distant Isles, who had seemed destined to conquer the world, becomes a paragon of love-inspired self-sacrifice. Whether for political reasons or out of aversion to the homoerotic, later retellings of the Lancelot story, in whatever language, show little or no interest in Galehaut. This is especially true of Malory's great English treatment of the Arthurian legend in the 15th century, in which the "high prince" Galehaut appears but only peripherally and with no significant tie to Lancelot. Lancelot and the Lord of the Distant Isles, or the Book of Galehaut Retold is a work of restoration. From the mass of diverse detail and labyrinthine complications of the medieval Lancelot-Grail Cycle, it abstracts the all-important double love-story and rescues from oblivion the first truly tragic figure in French literature.
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French and Italian language educator
Rosenberg, Samuel Nathan was born on January 19, 1936 in New York City. Son of Israel and Etta (Friedland) Rosenberg.
AB, Columbia University, 1957. Doctor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, 1965.
Instructor Columbia University, New York City, 1960-1961. Lecturer Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1962-1965, assistant professor, 1965-1969, associate professor Indiana, 1969-1981, professor department French and Italian, 1981-1999, professor emeritus, since 2000. Chairman department French and Italian Indiana University, Bloomington, 1977—1984.
Editor ENCOMIA journal of International Courtly Literature Society, 2005—2010.
(The deeply resonant love story of Sir Lancelot and King A...)
( This prose translation of the medieval French verse nar...)
(This prose translation of the medieval French verse narra...)
( This prose translation of the medieval French verse nar...)
( The Roman de Fauvel describes the career of Fauvel, a h...)
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President Mid-American Festival of the Arts, Inc., Bloomington, Indiana, 1984-1985. Member Modern Language Association, American Association Teachers French. Member Medieval Academy American, International Courtly Literature Society (editor Encomia 2005-2010), American Literature Translators Association (board directors 2002-2006), Romance Philology Advisory Board, Phi Beta Kappa.