O'Donnell / Gilbert / Reilly Medieval French Interlocutions

Shifting Perspectives on a Language in Contact
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-80543-318-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Donnell, Thomas

Gilbert, Jane

Reilly, Brian J.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Besamusca, Bart

Reilly, Brian J.

Léglu, Catherine

Pascual-Argente, Clara

Shawcross, Clare Teresa Monica

Henley, Georgia

Levy, Isabelle

Gilbert, Jane

Mallette, Karla

Demets, Lisa

Ni Mhaonaigh, Maire

Chinca, Mark

Nisse, Ruth

Kinoshita, Sharon

O'Donnell, Thomas

Shachar, Uri Zvi

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

O'Donnell Thomas:
THOMAS O'DONNELL is Associate Professor of English and Medieval Studies at Fordham University, New York, USA.Gilbert Jane:
JANE GILBERT is Professor of Medieval Literature and Critical Theory at University College London, UK.Reilly Brian J.:
BRIAN J. REILLY is Associate Professor of French at Fordham University, New York, USA.Reilly Brian J.:
BRIAN J. REILLY is Associate Professor of French at Fordham University, New York, USA.Gilbert Jane:
JANE GILBERT is Professor of Medieval Literature and Critical Theory at University College London, UK.O'Donnell Thomas:
THOMAS O'DONNELL is Associate Professor of English and Medieval Studies at Fordham University, New York, USA.