Medieval French Literary Culture Abroad

Studies manuscript sources, often of under-studied works and writers, to reassess the use of French as a literary language outside France in the medieval period.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Local French Outside France


• 2: Francophone Literary Culture on the Move: Northern Italy


• 3: Living History: Pierre de Langtoft and London, BL, Royal MS 20 A II


• 4: History, Time, and Empire: the Histoire ancienne in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem


• 5: The Movement of Books: Two Manuscript Studies


• 6: Dark Networks: Pre-histories, Post-histories and Imagined Geographies


• Conclusion: Networks, Communities, Language, and the Writing of History: Medieval French Literary Culture Outside France

About the author

Jane Gilbert is Senior Lecturer in French at University College London.

Simon Gaunt is Professor of French Language and Literature at King's College London and a Fellow of the British Academy.

William Burgwinkle is Emeritus Professor of French at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.

Summary

Studies manuscript sources, often of under-studied works and writers, to reassess the use of French as a literary language outside France in the medieval period.

Additional text

This book is admirable in its depth and its breadth; individual chapters focus on the specifics of texts and manuscripts while topics range across time and space. It provides readers with a new way of thinking about medieval literary culture as constantly evolving, moving, and adapting, without being tied to authors, origins, or centers ... They propose a persuasive, mobile vision of medieval French, its texts, and its manuscripts that is open to a range of histories and futurities, nationalisms and pre-nationalisms, localizations and universalities.

Product details

• Authors: William Burgwinkle, Burgwinkle William, Simon Gaunt, Gaunt Simon, Jane Gilbert, Jane (Senior Lecturer in French Gilbert
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.04.2020
• EAN: 9780198832454
• ISBN: 978-0-19-883245-4
• No. of pages: 302
• Series: Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; French, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Medieval, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary theory, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval