A Companion to Alain Chartier (C.1385-1430) - Father of French Eloquence

In Alain Chartier: Père de l'éloquence française contributors explore the diverse literary production of this influential late-medieval writer, whose concern with personal and political ethics and renovation of poetic form inspired generations of writers, and still resonate with modern readers.

About the author

Daisy Delogu (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 2003) is Associate Professor of French at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Theorizing the Ideal Sovereign (Toronto, 2008) and Allegorical Bodies: Power and Gender in Late Medieval France (Toronto, 2015).

Joan E. McRae (Ph.D. University of Virginia, 1997), Professor of French at Middle Tennessee State University has published Alain Chartier: The Quarrel of the Belle dame sans mercy (Routledge, 2004) and Le Cycle de la Belle Dame sans mercy, with David Hult (Champion 2003).

Emma Cayley (BA, MA, DPhil Oxford) is Head of Modern Languages and Associate Professor of Medieval French at the University of Exeter. Her publications on Chartier include Debate and Dialogue (OUP, 2006); Chartier in Europe with Ashby Kinch (Brewer, 2008).

Product details

• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.06.2015
• EAN: 9789004272187
• ISBN: 978-90-04-27218-7
• No. of pages: 388
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 726 g
• Series: Brill's Companions to the Chri
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works