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Studies of law in the Testament have tended to adopt one of two approaches. Archaeological studies have identified the judicial motifs, institutions, and figures to which Villon alludes, while formalist studies have focused on the ways in which Villon assimilates these elements to a poetic reflection that ultimately transforms them. I take a contrasting approach to investigate the role played by contingency, focusing on two issues. The first of these is the relationship between the particular and the global in different respects: the constant undermining of the testator’s exemplary status, the dubious relevance of proverbial discourse, the manipulation of formal principles. The second is the difficulty of recuperating “facts” that might serve as admissible evidence within the poem’s fictive world: the fragility of both individual and collective memory, the opaque character of allusions, the theme of variation that calls the text’s integrity into question.

The Resistance of Contingency: The Particular, the Irretrievable, and the Law in Villon’s Testament