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 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

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 title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest m