Vernacular Literary Theory from the French of Medieval England - Texts and Translations, c.1120-c.1450Paperback
Excerpts from texts (with translation) from the French of medieval England offer a guide to medieval literary theory.From the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries, French was one of England's main…
Specifikacia Vernacular Literary Theory from the French of Medieval England - Texts and Translations, c.1120-c.1450Paperback
Excerpts from texts (with translation) from the French of medieval England offer a guide to medieval literary theory.From the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries, French was one of England's main languages of literature, record, diplomacy and commerce and also its only supra-national vernacular. As is now recognised, the large corpus of England'sFrench texts and records is indispensable to understanding England's literary and cultural history, the multilingualism of early England, and European medieval French-language culture in general.This volume presents a full, representative collection of texts and facing translations from England's medieval French. Through its selection of prologues and other excerpts from works composed or circulating in England, the volume presents a body of vernacular literary theory, in which some fifty-five highly various texts, from a range of