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

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

he French presence in English literary history in the centuries following the Conquest has to some extent been glossed over or treated as an interlude. During t

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