{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.pastourelle","code":"thing-q1360742","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/q1360742/","name":"pastourelle","alternateNames":[],"kind":"thing","status":"published","version":"0.1.0-research.1","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Information and virtual systems","entryKind":"thing","plane":"INF","domain":["INF.MED"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"A pastourelle is a medieval lyric genre, especially associated with Old French poetry, that typically narrates an encounter and dialogue between a knight and a shepherdess, often involving courtship, sexual bargaining, rejection, or coercion.","purpose":"Enable an agent to recognise, compare and responsibly describe pastourelles by their pastoral encounters, social roles, verbal exchanges and textual or musical transmission.","scope":{"in":["Evidence for classifying a poem or song as a pastourelle","Rural encounter scenarios and their departures from the knight-shepherdess pattern","Narrative voice, dialogue, social hierarchy and encounter outcomes","Verse organisation, refrains and evidence of musical setting","Relationships among works, textual versions, manuscript witnesses and modern adaptations"],"out":["Pastoral poetry as a whole","Historical shepherding practices and rural economic organisation","Courtly love literature without evidence of a pastourelle relationship","The quadrille figure also called pastourelle","Physical manuscript conservation and recording-carrier management","General copyright administration for editions and performances"],"boundaries":[]},"distinguishingFeatures":["Look for an encounter involving rural characters and courtship, sexual solicitation or competing ideas of love; pastoral scenery alone is insufficient.","Test for a socially differentiated encounter, commonly a knight and shepherdess, while allowing documented variants. [CNRTL](https://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/pastourelle//1)","Look for an exchange of speech that develops the encounter rather than assuming any solitary love complaint belongs to the genre.","Do not require a successful romance: refusal, rescue, coercion and other endings must remain distinguishable. [An Introduction to Jean Bodel](https://academic.oup.com/florida-scholarship-online/book/58447/chapter-abstract/484807050)","Require scholarly or textual evidence when classifying village festivities or other departures from the familiar encounter pattern. [CNRTL](https://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/pastourelle//1)"],"structure":{"bundles":[{"id":"genre-membership","name":"Genre membership","description":"Establishes which sense and literary tradition justify identifying a candidate as a pastourelle.","layers":[{"id":"term-and-tradition","name":"Term and tradition","description":"Separates the intended literary genre from homonyms and neighbouring traditions.","findings":[{"id":"pastourelle-designation","name":"Pastourelle designation","description":"Record who applies the genre name and whether that label belongs to a witness, an editor or a later interpretation.","questions":[{"text":"Which source calls this work a pastourelle, and what passage or catalogue entry supports that designation?","id":"pastourelle-designation-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Does the designation refer to the literary or song genre rather than another meaning of pastourelle?","id":"pastourelle-designation-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"membership-tests","name":"Membership tests","description":"Assesses the encounter pattern and evidence for less typical members.","findings":[{"id":"scenario-fit","name":"Scenario fit","description":"Assess the combination of rural encounter, interlocutors and love-related exchange, with reasons for accepting departures.","questions":[{"text":"Which features of the encounter support pastourelle classification beyond a rural setting?","id":"scenario-fit-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"If the familiar knight-shepherdess encounter is absent, what evidence supports retaining this work within the genre?","id":"scenario-fit-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]}]},{"id":"encounter-and-voices","name":"Encounter and voices","description":"Models how rural space, character roles and reported speech organise the encounter.","layers":[{"id":"setting-and-roles","name":"Setting and roles","description":"Records the encounter's location and textually supported social distinctions.","findings":[{"id":"situated-participants","name":"Situated participants","description":"Identify rural activities, participant roles and explicit status markers without treating literary characters as social documentation.","questions":[{"text":"What location, activity or descriptive detail establishes the rural encounter?","id":"situated-participants-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Which words establish each participant's occupation or social standing, and which identifications are editorial inferences?","id":"situated-participants-q02","kind":"provenance"}]}]},{"id":"narration-and-exchange","name":"Narration and exchange","description":"Separates narrating authority from the participants' attributed speech.","findings":[{"id":"voice-allocation","name":"Voice allocation","description":"Record the narrator, speech turns and places where another speaker's intentions are reported rather than directly expressed.","questions":[{"text":"Who narrates the encounter, and is that narrator also a participant?","id":"voice-allocation-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Which responses are directly spoken, paraphrased by the narrator or supplied by an editor?","id":"voice-allocation-q02","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"How do speech turns and the final word distribute authority between the participants?","id":"voice-allocation-q03","kind":"measurement"}]}]}]},{"id":"courtship-power-and-outcome","name":"Courtship, power and outcome","description":"Records proposals, responses, pressures and endings with passage-level support.","layers":[{"id":"solicitation-and-response","name":"Solicitation and response","description":"Examines what is requested, offered, refused or imposed.","findings":[{"id":"exchange-and-agency","name":"Exchange and agency","description":"Record verbal persuasion, gifts, status claims, threats and responses when present, keeping ambiguous readings explicit.","questions":[{"text":"What does the suitor request or offer, and which passages establish the response?","id":"exchange-and-agency-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Does an interpretation of agreement rely on explicit speech, narrator assertion or an assumption about genre conventions?","id":"exchange-and-agency-q02","kind":"boundary"},{"text":"Which expressions require annotation because translation could obscure refusal, pressure or irony?","id":"exchange-and-agency-q03","kind":"action"}]}]},{"id":"closure-and-interpretation","name":"Closure and interpretation","description":"Distinguishes narrated events from claims about their significance.","findings":[{"id":"ending-evidence","name":"Ending evidence","description":"Identify how the encounter ends and whether the surviving text permits a settled account.","questions":[{"text":"Does the ending establish refusal, escape, intervention, agreement, violence or an unresolved encounter?","id":"ending-evidence-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Is uncertainty caused by ambiguous language, a missing ending or disagreement among interpreters?","id":"ending-evidence-q02","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"How should a summary preserve that uncertainty and avoid presenting the narrator's judgment as an established event?","id":"ending-evidence-q03","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"verse-and-song","name":"Verse and song","description":"Describes the formal organisation of the pastourelle and the evidence connecting words to music.","layers":[{"id":"stanzas-and-refrains","name":"Stanzas and refrains","description":"Records observable verse features for a specified textual version.","findings":[{"id":"formal-profile","name":"Formal profile","description":"Document stanza arrangement, rhyme, line lengths and refrains without making any one pattern a universal membership rule.","questions":[{"text":"What stanza, rhyme and line-length patterns occur in this version, and where do they vary?","id":"formal-profile-q01","kind":"measurement"},{"text":"How do refrains or stanza boundaries relate to changes of speaker and stages of the encounter?","id":"formal-profile-q02","kind":"definition"}]}]},{"id":"melody-and-realisation","name":"Melody and realisation","description":"Separates witness-based musical evidence from proposed performance choices.","findings":[{"id":"setting-evidence","name":"Setting evidence","description":"Record the source of any melody, its association with the text and the editorial choices needed to perform it.","questions":[{"text":"Which witness or documented association supports the melody used for this pastourelle?","id":"setting-evidence-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which elements of rhythm, pronunciation, accompaniment or text underlay are editorial or performative choices?","id":"setting-evidence-q02","kind":"boundary"},{"text":"What must be labelled as reconstruction when preparing a performance?","id":"setting-evidence-q03","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"witnesses-and-reuse","name":"Witnesses and reuse","description":"Connects a pastourelle to its surviving versions, interpretive sources and later uses.","layers":[{"id":"textual-identity","name":"Textual identity","description":"Maintains work identity while distinguishing witnesses and editorial interventions.","findings":[{"id":"version-and-attribution","name":"Version and attribution","description":"Record incipits, witness locations, attribution evidence and variants relevant to genre interpretation.","questions":[{"text":"Which incipit, manuscript shelfmark and folio or edition reference identify the text being analysed?","id":"version-and-attribution-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"What evidence supports the author and date attribution, and are alternatives recorded?","id":"version-and-attribution-q02","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Do differences in speakers, refusals or endings represent witness variants, editorial decisions or separate adaptations?","id":"version-and-attribution-q03","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"adaptation-and-use","name":"Adaptation and use","description":"Links translations, dramatic treatments and performances to their source versions.","findings":[{"id":"derived-treatment","name":"Derived treatment","description":"Document changes to the encounter and identify the particular text, translation, score or recording proposed for reuse.","questions":[{"text":"Which source version underlies this translation, dramatisation or musical treatment, and how does it change the encounter?","id":"derived-treatment-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Should the treatment be described as a version of the work, an adaptation or a new work drawing on the genre?","id":"derived-treatment-q02","kind":"boundary"},{"text":"What attribution and verified reuse conditions apply to the specific edition, translation, score or recording the agent intends to use?","id":"derived-treatment-q03","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"evidence-and-external-alignment","name":"Evidence and external alignment","description":"What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.","layers":[{"id":"reported-evidence","name":"Reported evidence","description":"Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.","findings":[{"id":"evidence-confidence-notes","name":"Check these first","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these check these first hold for the sense of pastourelle this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-confidence-notes-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-real-world-use","name":"Real-world use","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of pastourelle this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-real-world-use-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards","name":"Failure modes and hazards","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of pastourelle this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-regional-variation","name":"Regional variation","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of pastourelle this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-regional-variation-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-neighbours","name":"Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of pastourelle this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-neighbours-q01","kind":"provenance"}]}]}]}]},"agentConduct":{"may":["Describe the pastourelle genre, its conventions and examples from reliable editions.","Present scholarly readings of the genre, including those about coercion."],"mustNot":["Present scenes of sexual coercion in the poems as romantic or harmless without context.","Present modern translations as original texts.","Reproduce recent copyrighted translations in full."],"requiresHuman":["Selecting such texts for teaching young students."]},"ethics":{"considerations":["Many pastourelles depict pressure on a woman of lower status; honest reading names it.","Medieval literature is shared heritage worth accurate transmission."],"affectedParties":["Students","Readers","Translators"]},"owners":{"steward":"Nobody owns the genre; libraries and editors 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harmful assumptions about consent.","Reading fictional encounters as direct evidence of everyday medieval behaviour can produce misleading historical claims.","Uncritical presentation of class and gender stereotypes can reproduce the prejudices expressed in the texts."]},"interfaces":{"applicability":"not-applicable","items":[]},"context":{"applicability":"required","items":["Pastourelles are encountered in medieval lyric manuscripts, literary editions and studies of poetry and song.","They support analysis of pastoral settings, social hierarchy, gender relations and the representation of consent in medieval literature."]}},"sources":[{"title":"Wikidata item Q1360742: pastourelle","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1360742","note":"identity and sense of the item"},{"title":"Wikipedia: Pastourelle","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastourelle","note":"general description of the item"}],"openQuestions":["Does vr.tr.pastourelle specifically denote the medieval French literary and 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