Medieval francophone literary culture outside France : studies in the moving word / edited by Nicola Morato and Dirk Schoenaers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Morato, Nicola, 1978- editor.

Schoenaers, Dirk, editor.

Series:

Medieval texts and cultures of Northern Europe ; 28.

Medieval texts and cultures of Northern Europe ; volume 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French literature--To 1500--Criticism, Textual.

French literature.

Literature and society--Europe--History--To 1500.

Literature and society.

Culture diffusion--Europe--History--To 1500.

Culture diffusion.

History.

Criticism, Textual.

Europe.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 571 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2018]

Summary:

In medieval Europe, cultural, political, and linguistic identities rarely coincided with modern national borders. As early as the end of the twelfth century, French rose to prominence as a lingua franca that could facilitate communication between people, regardless of their origin, background, or community. Between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, literary works were written or translated into French not only in France but also across Europe, from England and the Low Countries to as far afield as Italy, Cyprus, and the Holy Land. Many of these texts had a broad European circulation and for well over three hundred years they were transmitted, read, studied, imitated, and translated. Drawing on the results of the AHRC-funded research project Medieval Francophone Literary Culture Outside France, this volume aims to reassess medieval literary culture and explore it in a European and Mediterranean setting. The book, incorporating nineteen papers by international scholars, explores the circulation and production of francophone texts outside of France along two major axes of transmission: one stretching from England and Normandy across to Flanders and Burgundy, and the other running across the Pyrenees and Alps from the Iberian Peninsula to the Levant. In doing so, it offers new insights into how francophone literature forged a place for itself, both in medieval textual culture and, more generally, in Western cultural spheres.

Contents:

Southern Axis: Mediterranean Europe and the Middle East

Inside/Outside Grammar: The French of Italy between Structuralism and Trends of Exoticism p. 31 / Fabio Zinelli

That Obscure Object of Desire: French in Southern Italy p. 73 / Charmaine Lee

Medieval Misogyny and the French of Italy: The Chastiemusart and the Proverbia que dicuntur super natura feminarum p. 101 / F. Regina Psaki

French Manuscripts of the Lancelot en prose Preserved in Spain and Portugal p. 141 / Lourdes Soriano Robles

Boethius in Cyprus? Pierre de Paris's Translation of the Consolaiio Philosophiae p. 165 / Chara Concina

Jehan de Journi's Disme de Penitanche and the Production of a Vernacular Confessional Text in Outremer p. 191 / Marisa Galvez

Northern Axis: England, the Low Countries, and the Empire

Wolfram von Eschenbach, Gottfried von Strassburg, and the Politics of Literary Adaptation: The Grail and Tristan Romances and the Court of Otto IV (1198-1218) p. 213 / Adrian Stevens

Middle Dutch Poets and their Francophone Sources: Respect and Reservations p. 241 / Frank Brandsma

'Ic wille re mire jeesten gaen': Reworking La Mottle roi Artu in the Low Countries p. 265 / Marjolein Hogenbirk

Context-Based Compilation? The Use of the Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César and the Function of the matière d'Alexandre in the Chronique de Baudouin d'Avesnes p. 289 / Florent Noirfalise

Material and Documentary Evidence

Religious Reading in French and Middle Dutch in the Southern Low Countries and Northern France (c. 1400-c. 1520) p. 323 / Margriet Hoogvliet

An Italian Reader of the Chroniques d'Angleterre by Jean de Wavrin: Pierre Villa and MS BNF f. fr. 87 p. 349 / Victor Jante

Francophone Troubadours: Assimilating Occitan Lyric in Medieval France p. 371 / Eliza Zingesser

Textual Evidence

Machaut's Literary Legacy in the Crown of Aragon: The Catalan Chansonnier Vega-Aguiló and the Anonymous Roman de Cardenois p. 391 / Anna Alberni

Magna Graecia and the Matter of Troy in the Francophone Mediterranean p. 411 / Marilynn Desmond

Translatio Networks in the Prose Troy Tradition p. 433 / Jessica Stoll

Constructing auctoritas: French, Occitan, and Italian

Staging Francophone Identities: Latin First Crusade Narratives and the Epic Conflict of French and Occitan p. 453 / Patricia Harris Stäblein Gillies

"In lingua est diversitas': Medieval Francophone and Occitanophone Literary Cultures in Catalonia and Italy p. 473 / Courtney Joseph Wells

French Literary Identity in Translation: The Roman de la Rose and its Tuscan Adaptations p. 507 / Laura Chuhan Campbell.

ISBN:

9782503554440

250355444X

OCLC:

1085962575