Medieval Multilingualism: The Francophone Worlds and Its Neighbors

by Kleinhenz, Christopher; Busby, Keith

• ISBN13: 9782503528373
• ISBN10: 2503528376
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-12-30
• Publisher: Isd

Summary

Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe is a series which opens up a dedicated forum for comparative work on northern European medieval literature, history, and society and their significance in the modern world. It promotes dialogue between anglophone and continental medievalists and addresses the need for transcultural perspectives on Europe's medieval origins in a way that is distinctive both in scope and in academic orientation. The focus is on the medieval texts and cultures of the British Isles, northern and central mainland Europe, and Scandinavia. The chronological range of the series is from c. 800 AD to c. 1600 AD. Each volume makes available to an international readership excellent new work, offering ways of reading texts, cultures, and institutions that speak to the contemporary world.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Introduction: Medieval Francophonia	p. 1
Creole Grammar and Multilingual Poetics	p. 15
Language Labels, Language Change, and Lexis	p. 43
Institutions and Multilingualism in the Middle Ages	p. 63
Multilingualism in England and Wales, c. 1200: The Testimony of Gerald of Wales	p. 83
Aultre manier de language: English Usage as a Political Act in Thirteenth-Century England	p. 107
From Francophile to Francophobe: The Changing Attitude of Medieval Dutch Authors towards French Literature	p. 127
Literary Evidence for Multilingualism: The Roman de Tristan in its Italian Incarnations	p. 145
Lecteurs et interprètes des romans arthuriens en Italie: un examen à partir des études récentes	p. 155
Manuscrits en français, italien, et latin entre la Toscane et la Ligurie à la fin du XIIIe siècle: implications codicologiques, linguistiques, et évolution des genres narratifs	p. 187
Les Aspects de multilinguisme dans Aquilon de Bavière	p. 219
Aspects of Legal Multilingualism in the States of Savoy	p. 237
The Vernacularization of Late Medieval Sermons: Some French and Italian Examples	p. 267
French and Occitan in Fourteenth-Century Auvergne	p. 285
Musical Multilingualism in Le Roman de Fauvel (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, MS fonds français 146)	p. 303
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