Le Passe temps d'oysiveté - Dialogue in verse between Robert Gaguin and Chester Herald

These contents are taken from the text version of Gaguin, Robert, Thuasne, Louis (ed.), Roberti Gaguini Epistole et orationes ; texte publié sur les éditions originales de 1498 : précédé d'une notice biographique, et suivi de pièces diverses en partie, inédites, vol.2, Paris: Émile Boullon, 1903. (Internet Archive. vol.1.) I corrected typographical errors due to the OCR system misrecognition, but there may still exist such errors. Please consult printed version for academic purpose.   S.U.

Table of contents

Introduction ... Introductory comments by Thuasne and Montaiglon. I did not use the latter except this part, since Thuasne mentined evertying and he well consulted Montaiglon.
The text ... pp.366-423.
Additions aux notes ... pp.461-498.

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Carlson, David, "Politicizing Tudor Court Literature: Gaguin's Embassy and Henry VII's Humanists' Response", in Studies in Philology, Vol. 85, No. 3, 1988, pp. 279-304.
Currin, John M., "Persuasions to Peace: The Luxembourg-Marigny-Gaguin Embassy and the State of Anglo-French Relations, 1489-90", in EHR, Volume CXIII, Issue 453, 1998, pp 882-904.
Currin, John M., "To Play at Peace: Henry VII, War Against France, and the Chieregato-Flores Mediation of 1490", in Albion, Volume 31, Issue 2, 1999, pp. 207-237.
Gaguin, Robert (trad. attributed), Les Gestes romaines, nouvellement impriméz ..., Paris: Antoine Vérard, s.d., tome 1, tome 2, tome 3. Tome 3, f.206v: Comment le roy d'armes des Françoys fut premièrement créé et puis nommé Montjoye. See Roberti Gaguini Epistole et orationes, vol.1, pp.111ff.
Goy-Blanquet, Dominique, "Shakespeare Burgundy and the Design in the Arras", in Mayer, Jean-Christophe, Representing France and the French in Early Modern English Drama, Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press, 2008, pp.49ff. Concerned with Gaguin.
Grummitt, David (ed.), The English Experience in France c.1450-1558: War, Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange, Routledge, 2017. (Reprint and originally published 2002.) There is a mention to Passe temps in (page number not given), n. 72 continued from previous page. Probaly a note to Currin, John M., "‘To Traffice War’? Henry VII and the French Campagin of 1492", pp.106-31. There is also a discussion on Warwick herald in Meek Edward, "The Practice of English Diplomacy in Francd, 1461-71" pp.63-84.
McKinnon, Simon Gerard, "The Representation of the English in French Literature between 1450 and 1530", PhD. Thesis Univ. of Durham 2005. Pp.126ff. discusses our Passe-temps. There is a discussion on Gilles Le Bouvier's Description, pp.104ff. and the Debate between French and English Heralds, pp.107ff. (pdf.)
Roersch, Alphonse, L'humanisme belge à l'époque de la renaissance : études et portraits, Bruxelles: G. van Oest, 1910. Pp.27ff. is concerned with Passe temps.
Van Hemelryck, Tania, "Les locutions dans le Passe-temps d'oysiveté de Robert Gaguin", in Le Moyen Français, vol.60-61, 2007, pp.431-444.
Visser-Fuchs, Carolina Theodora Livia, "Warwick and Wavrin. Two case studies on the literary background and propaganda of Anglo-Burgundian relations in the Yorkist period", PhD. thesis, Univ. College London, 2002. P.117 is concerned with a Chester Herald. There is a discussion on the Debate between French and English Heralds, pp.9ff. (pdf.)
Godfrey, Walter H., College of Arms, London, 1963, pp.121-122.
Pyne, Henry (tr.), England and France in the Fifteenth Century. The Contemporary French Tract entitled “The Debate between the Heralds of France and England,” presumed to have been written by Charles, Duke of Oreleans, London: Longmans, Green, 1870. (Google Books.)

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