Medieval French Interlocutions (eBook, ePUB)

Shifting Perspectives on a Language in Contact
Redaktion: O'Donnell, Thomas; Reilly, Brian J.; Gilbert, Jane

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Specialists in other languages offer perspectives on the widespread use of French in a range of contexts, from German courtly narratives to biblical exegesis in Hebrew.

French came into contact with many other languages in the Middle Ages: not just English, Italian and Latin, but also Arabic, Dutch, German, Greek, Hebrew, Irish, Occitan, Sicilian, Spanish and Welsh. Its movement was impelled by trade, pilgrimage, crusade, migration, colonisation and conquest, and its contact zones included Muslim, Jewish and Christian communities, among others. Writers in these contact zones often expressed themselves and their worlds in French; but other languages and cultural settings could also challenge, reframe or even ignore French-users' prestige and self-understanding.

The essays collected here offer cross-disciplinary perspectives on the use of French in the medieval world, moving away from canonical texts, well-known controversies and conventional framings. Whether considering theories of the vernacular in Outremer, Marco Polo and the global Middle Ages, or the literary patronage of aristocrats and urban patricians, their interlocutions throw new light on connected and contested literary cultures in Europe and beyond.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cokesbury
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781805433194
• Artikelnr.: 70482672

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Contributors Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations
Introduction - Thomas O'Donnell, Jane Gilbert and Brian J. Reilly 1. Our
Language and the Others: Old French Glosses in Berekhiah Ha-Naqdan's Uncle
and Nephew and Commentary on the Book of Job - Ruth Nisse 2. From Liutprand
of Cremona to Robert de Clari: Wonder and the Translation of Knowledge
Before and After the Crusader Conquest of Constantinople - Teresa Shawcross
3. Mixed Metaphors, Mixed Forms: Across Medieval Hebrew and French
Prosimetra - Isabelle Levy 4. Deeds and Dialogue from a French-Irish
Medieval Cultural Sphere - Máire Ní Mhaonaigh 5. The Presence of French in
German Courtly Literature c.1200 - Mark Chinca 6. Marco Polo and the
Multilingual Middle Ages - Sharon Kinoshita 7. Romancing Allegory: Theories
of the Vernacular in Outremer - Uri Zvi Shachar 8. 'Dize en la estoria
francesca': The Circulation of Francophone Matter of Antiquity in Medieval
Castile (c.1200-1369) - Clara Pascual-Argente 9. Anxiety in the Contact
Zone: The Debate of the Body and the Soul in late-medieval French and
Occitan poetry - Catherine Léglu 10. The Uses of French in Medieval Wales -
Georgia Henley 11. In Between Dutch and French: Multilingual Literary
Patronage of the Flemish Nobility in the Fifteenth Century - Bart Besamusca
and Lisa Demets 12. Sicilian Multilingualism and Cosmopolitan French -
Karla Mallette Bibliography Index