Title Medieval French literary culture abroad / Jane Gilbert, Simon Gaunt, and William Burgwinkle

Edition First edition Published Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020 ©2020

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations, maps Series Oxford studies in medieval literature and culture Oxford studies in medieval literature and culture. Contents Local French outside France: Gaimar's Estoire des Engleis and the Second Mise en Prose of the Roman de Troie -- Francophone Literary Culture on the Move: Northern Italy -- Living History: Pierre de Langtoft and London, BL, Royal MS 20 A II -- History, Time, and Empire: The Histoire ancienne in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem -- The Movement of Books: Two Manuscript Studies -- Dark Networks: Prehistories, Post-histories, and Imagined Geographies -- Conclusion: Networks, Communities, Language, and the Writing of History: Medieval French Literary Culture Outside France Summary The field of medieval francophone literary culture outside France was for many years a minor and peripheral sub-field of medieval French literary studies (or, in the case of Anglo-Norman, of English studies). The past two decades, however, have seen a major reassessment of the use of French in England, in the Low Countries, in Italy, and in the eastern Mediterranean, and this impacts significantly upon the history of literature in French more generally. This book is the first to look at the question overall, rather than just at one region. It also takes a more sustained theorised approach than other studies, drawing particularly on Derrida and on Actor-Network Theory. It discusses a wide range of texts, some of which have hitherto been regarded as marginal to French literary history, and makes the case for this material being more central to the literary history of French than was allowed in more traditional approaches focused narrowly on 'France'. Many of the arguments in Medieval French Literary Culture Abroad are grounded in readings of texts in manuscript (rather than in modern critical editions), and sustained attention is paid throughout to manuscripts that were produced or travelled outside the kingdom of France Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from web page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on July 13, 2020) Subject French literature -- To 1500 -- History and criticism French literature -- Foreign countries -- History and criticism French literature -- Appreciation -- Foreign countries French literature French literature -- Foreign countries Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Gaunt, Simon, author. Burgwinkle, William E., 1951- author. ISBN 9780192568595 0192568590 9780191888823 0191888826 9780192568601 0192568604

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