1 This draft paper was submitted to a French academic journal (hence the francophone features in the title and elsewhere), whose reviewers quite reasonably objected that it was too unwieldy for a paper but might feasibly be expanded into a book. Increasingly alert to time passing and impatient at editorial supervision, I do not anticipate a formal publication, but the following is likely in due course to be conglomerated with other contributions here on the representation of space in early narrative, with which, not least in the opening phases, it substantially overlaps. Material specific to this paper (including space the Miller's Tale and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight) starts on p. 12. INTERNET PAPER LA LOGIQUE DE L'ESPACE ARTICULAIRE CONNECTIVE AND DEMARCATIVE PARADIGMS FOR SPATIAL REPRESENTATION IN LATE- AND POST-MEDIEVAL NARRATIVE TOM PETTITT CULTURAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE & CENTRE FOR MEDIEVAL LITERATURE, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK In the present context what follows can most appropriately be seen as celebrating, extending and reformulating the insights of an achievement of Francophone Medieval Studies insufficiently appreciated in Anglo-American scholarship, Guillemette Bolens' La Logique du Corps Articulaire. 1 With insightful chapters on celebrated figures from medieval literature in Norse (Völund), Irish (Cuchulainn), Anglo-Saxon (Beowulf and Grendel) and French (Lancelot), prefaced by one on the Iliad (Achilles), Bolens convincingly identifies as characteristic of pre-modern narrative (and pictorial art) a paradigm representing the body as an articulated structure of limbs linked by joints (vulnerable to fracture and dismemberment). Over time however this was challenged and eventually eclipsed by the typical modern paradigm representing the body as a container with orifices (vulnerable to rupture and penetration). As such representations effectively concern the body's spatial dimension, it can be anticipated that the distinction between the corps articulaire and the corps-enveloppe, together with their changing relative significance over time, will also be applicable to space in the more general sense of the material environment, represented, correspondingly, as either articulated (avenues and junctions – my title ventures espace articulaire) or enclosed (boundaries and gateways -- espace-enveloppe). And indeed, Bolens briefly invokes this wider 1. Guillemette Bolens, La Logique du Corps Articulaire: Les articulations du corps humain dans la littérature occidentale (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2000) – hence my bilingual title. For early reception in English see e.g. review by Walter Simons in Speculum, 78, no. 4 (October 2003): 1252-53. http://www.jstor.org.proxy1-bib.sdu.dk:2048/stable/20060934.