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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Jane Gilbert (Senior Lecturer in French, University College London) , Simon Gaunt (Professor of French Language and Literature, King's College London) , William Burgwinkle (Professor of Medieval French and Occitan Literature, University of Cambridge)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 17.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.10cm Weight: 0.001kg ISBN: 9780198832454ISBN 10: 0198832451 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 15 April 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction 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 FranceReviewsThis 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. * J. R. Mattison, Comitatus * 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. * J. R. Mattison, Comitatus * Author InformationJane 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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