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''Le Roman de Silence'' is an Old French ''roman'' in octosyllabic verse, dated to the first half of the 13th century. It is attributed to one ''Heldris de Cornuälle'' (Heldris of Cornwall, an Arthurian pseudonym). Due to the text's late discovery (in 1927) and edition (in 1972) and its subject matter of nature vs. nurture, transvestitism, sex and gender, and gender roles, it has attracted a lot of attention from outside the field of medieval studies, especially on the part of the Anglo-Saxon field of gender studies.〔Silvère Menegaldo and Danièle James-Raoul, ''Heldris de Cornuälle, Le roman de silence'', CMRH 12 (2005), 207-210. ''Tardivement redécouvert (en 1927), plus tardivement édité encore (pour la première fois en 1972), et donc longtemps oublié, Le Roman de Silence d’Heldris de Cornuälle – un auteur par ailleurs inconnu – ne l’est plus aujourd’hui, étant depuis les vingt dernières années l’objet d’un intérêt toujours plus vif de la part de la critique, d’ailleurs surtout anglo-saxonne. ''〕 ==Manuscript== The single manuscript holding the text was found in 1911 in Wollaton Hall in Nottingham, in a crate marked "unimportant documents". The same crate also contained a letter written by Henry VIII.〔Historical Manuscript Commission , Report on the Manuscripts of Lord Middleton Preserved at Wollaton Hall , Nottinghamshire, compiled by W. H. Stevenson (London:, 1911), pp. 221-36.〕 The manuscript is now part of the Wollaton Library Collection (WLC/LM/6), held by the Manuscripts and Special Collections, The University of Nottingham〔(Items from the Wollaton Library Collection - The University of Nottingham ) accessed 21 April 2010〕 ''Silence'' is one of a collection of 18 stories, including seven romances and ten fabilaux, illustrated with 83 miniatures. The discovery that the manuscript held a previously unknown Old French ''roman'' was made in 1927.〔Gelzer, Heinrich, « Der Silenceroman von Heldris de Cornualle », ''Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie'', 47, 1927, pp. 87-99.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Le Roman de Silence」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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