John W. Baldwin

The Image of the Jongleur in Northern France Around 1200

In the pages of the Latin chroniclers writing around 1200 the jongleur appears as a gray, furtive shadow. His existence was acknowledged by the broad term joculator, but his functions were too suspect to deserve further comment.1 The clerical chroniclers associated jongleurs with other lay activities, such as making love, admiring feminine beauty, holding festivities, and fighting in tournaments, about which the less said, the better. In contemporary vernacular literature, however, the jongleurs image springs into sharp focus and takes on vivid colors. In the Roman de la rose of Jean Renart, for example, jongleurs swarm everywhere, at spring hunts, in courts and castles, at tournaments, and during the celebrations of marriages and coronations. From these crowds Jean treats his audience to a portrait of a single jongleur who bears the eponym Juglet:2

Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America

George Peddy Cuttino, distinguished scholar of diplomatic and diplomacy, died in Atlanta, Georgia, on 4 October 1991 in his seventy-eighth year. He was born in Newman, Georgia, on 9 March 1914. When Cuttino entered Swarthmore College in 1931, he assumed that he was heading towards a career as a diplomat, but Mary Albertsons seminar soon turned his thoughts to medieval history. After graduating with highest honors in 1935, he received an M.A. from the University of Iowa the following year. He then proceeded on to Oxford, the recipient of a Rhodes Scholarship, and for the next two years he studied at Oriel College. Maurice Powicke, already the Regius Professor, was his official tutor, but increasingly he sought guidance and inspiration from Vivian Galbraith, then a Reader in Diplomatic and the scholar whom Cuttino regarded as having had the greatest formative influence on his own development. He received his D.Phil. in 1938, after which he spent a postdoctoral year at the University of Londons Institute of Historical Research.

Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America: Robert-Henri Bautier

Robert-Henri Bautier was one of Frances leading and most respected medieval historians, dedicated to preserving and enhancing the traditions of textual and documentary study that have flourished in France since the seventeenth century. He died at Paris on 19 October 2010 after a long and courageous struggle with illness, supported by his devoted wife and lifelong colleague Anne-Marie until her death in 2008, and to the end by his daughter Genevieve and his son-in-law Henri Bresc.

Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America: Bernard Guenée

Our colleague Bernard Guenee, Corresponding Fellow of the Academy since 1982, was born in Rennes on February 6, 1927, and died in Paris on September 25, 2010.