Anna S. Larsen and Dr. Jesse Hurlbut, Department of French and Italian Between the years of 1355 and 1358, Guillaume de Digulleville, a Cistercian monk from Châlis, wrote Le pèlerinage de l’âme, the second poem in a trilogy of allegorical pilgrimages. This poem, along with its predecessor Le pèlerinage de la vie humaine and its […]
AN ANALYSIS OF THE CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT: CHALLENGES AND POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS
David C. McKnight and Dr. Ilona Klein, French and Italian A significant portion of my senior year at Brigham Young University was dedicated to the completion of my Senior Honors Thesis entitled: “An Analysis of the Contemporary Italian Environmental Movement: Challenges and Possible Solutions.” The information most pertinent to my argument had to come from […]
Publishing Henry de Saict-Didier’s 1573 manual on the ‘Single Sword’
Robert Hyatt and Dr. Jesse Hurlbut, French Dept I had the good fortune to be introduced to the Henry de Sainct-Didier manual by a friend named John Clements, and I was able to obtain one of the few surviving copies of this manual from a used bookstore in France. With fellow student Devin Wilson, we […]
THE KIRTLAND TEMPLE: ITS ROLE IN CONSOLIDATING THE POWER OF JESUS CHRIST IN THE ACTING FIGURE OF THE PROPHET JOSEPH SMITH
Wendy K. Young and Dr. Donald W. Parry, French and Italian Scholars continue to find striking similarities among temples of the ancient world. Research yields evidence of similarities not only among ancient temples, but also between ancient and modern temples. Arvid Kapelrud studied temple construction accounts in the ancient Near East and found two temple […]
Gifts in the Burgundian Court Analyzing Financial Records from the Fifteenth Century
Liel Boyce and Dr. Jesse Hurlbut, Department of French and Italian (HUM) The Duke of Burgundy was a major broker of art, culture, civilization and power in Western Europe in the fifteenth century. The administration of his wealth and all his expenditures was centralized in a single office called the “Chambre des Comptes.” These annual […]
Balzac and a Christian Narrative Model: A Message for Modern France
Morgan Dennis and Dr. Scott Sprenger, French & Italian Honoré de Balzac was one of the most prolific French authors in the 19th century, and scholars around the world publish numerous articles and books about his enormous collection of novels (known as La Comédie Humaine) every year. Despite the fact that religious symbols, references, and […]
Caragiale: An Experience in 20th Century Romanian Cinema
Michael Wilson and Dr. Anca Sprenger, French and Italian Languages The “new wave of Romanian Cinema,” as the recent success of films by a handful of Romanian directors has been named, has made quite a splash in the pool of International Cinema. At the Cannes International Film Festival, the most prestigious film festival in the […]
WINDOWS OF FRANCE: A COLLAGE OF FRENCH CULTURE THROUGH THE EYE OF A CAMERA
Kimberly A. Ingram and Dr. Michael D. Bush, French and Italian This grant has enabled me to embark upon an exciting project that will improve the tools available in the field of French Language acquisition, a video disc textbook. This project contains three main objectives: 1) set up a bilingual database of the images necessary […]
Jeanine Meerapfel and Her Films – An Interview
Jonathan Smith and Dr. Daryl Lee, French and Italian Jeanine Meerapfel has been a professional filmmaker for 30 years and is an important, though often overlooked, voice in German and Argentine cinema. Meerapfel, born in Argentina to German-Jewish parents who fled Germany during World War II, has worked in Germany, Argentina, and Greece, and has […]
SUMMARY OF CREATIVE RESEARCH GRANT RESULTS AND ARTISTIC STATEMENT
Erika Feinauer and Dr. Michael Bus, French and Italian Department The purpose of this project was to obtain materials for a photo database to be used in French language instruction. This was accomplished by traveling to France and taking a myriad of pictures. I was in France from April 12 to May 8, 1996. My […]