ABSTRACT Jean Froissart’s 1389 Dit du florin stages a dialogue between a penurious poet-narrator and the single, misshapen coin remaining at the bottom of his otherwise empty purse. Described as clipped, disfigured, and broken, the coin is now worthless: paradoxically, its former value lay at its now-missing periphery, not at its center. The florin nonetheless offers a faithful accounting of the narrator’s expenditures, and ultimately binds the poet in a network of patrons that might restore his lost wealth. This article considers the Dit du florin’s unusual positioning of value, knowledge, and power at the margins of things — at the geographic boundaries the poet skirts in his travels, in the seams of a purse, in the clippings of a coin — and this in a text that is itself situated at the margins of Froissart’s oeuvre. Viewing the florin through the lens of Actor-Network Theory and Disability Studies, we uncover how the Dit’s gestures of accounting and recounting implicate the poet and the coin in complex networks of liquid social exchange.

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网络Froissart的Florin

摘要弗洛林（Jean Froissart）1389年的《弗洛林》（Dit du florin）在一个沉思的诗人叙事者和他那空空的钱包底部残存的单一变形硬币之间进行了对话。这种硬币被描述为剪裁，毁损和破损，现在已经一文不值了：自相矛盾的是，它的前值在于现在缺失的外围，而不是中心。尽管如此，弗洛林还是忠实地叙述了叙述者的支出，并最终将诗人束缚在一个顾客网络中，这可能会恢复他失去的财富。本文考虑了Dit du florin在价值边缘的不寻常的价值，知识和权力定位-在诗人的行进中，在钱包的接缝中，在硬币的剪裁中-在地理边界上，以及在本身位于弗罗伊萨尔作品集边缘的文本。