1206 Adams, Tracy, ‘Making sens in BnF fr. 19152’, NZJFS, 23 (2002), 22–33.

Examines the organizing principle of the manuscript concerned, which contains 88 works, including Marie's Fables. The purpose of the collection is seen as the development of individual sens, i.e. the ability to analyse exempla situationally, not according to a fixed moral code. The first two works in the manuscript introduce the ethical analysis which is to be applied in the moral interpretation of the stories themselves; in this way the works are considered to interact.

1207 Agamben, Giorgio, Sacer homo: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, trans. Daniel Heller-Roazen (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998).

Chapter 6 (‘The Ban and the Wolf’, pp. 104–11) deals with the relationships between the sacred man, werewolves, and outlaws and includes remarks on Bisclavret. States that in this lay ‘both the werewolf's particular nature as the threshold of passage between nature and politics, animal world and human world, and the werewolf's close tie to sovereign power are presented with extraordinary vividness’ (p. 107). It is important that the final transformation back into a human being takes place on the very bed of the sovereign (p. 108).

1208 Airò, Anna, ‘Tessitrici di parole (Philomena, Fresne…)’, Il racconto nel medioevo (2001), pp. 181–95.

Examines the motif of weaving, as linked to the power of speech and feminine identity in several texts, including Laüstic (pp. 187–88) and Le Fresne (pp. 190–93). Of the texts studied only the heroines of Chrétien de Troyes's Philomena and Le Fresne find a solution to their problem, and they do so through another woman. The lady in Laüstic remains isolated from the world of women, as no other women are mentioned in this lay.

1209 ——, ‘La tenda sacra nel Roman d’Alexandre’, in La regalità, ed. Carlo Donà & Francesco Zambon, Biblioteca Medievale, Saggi, 9 (Rome: Carocci, 2002), pp. 165–87.