Is it legitimate to conceive of and write a history of medieval French literature when the term “literature” as we know it today did not appear until the ve

This collection of essays argues that literary identity can be created and re-created, adopted, refused, imposed, and self-imposed, and that one may exist withi

Medieval French literature encompasses 450 years of literary output in Old and Middle French, mostly produced in Northern France and England. These texts, inclu

This volume brings together literary and musical compositions of medieval France, identifying the use of voice in these works as a way of articulating gendered

This long tradition would certainly not be a reason in itself to keep or restore the subject, had it not something to do with the subject itself. All of the ass