The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue in literature, theology, and philosophy, in social, political, jurisprudential, and intellectual history, the history of art, and the history of science but also that combines these subjects productively. It offers innovative studies on topics that may include, but are not limited to, manuscript and book history; languages and literatures of the global Middle Ages; race and the post-colonial; the digital humanities, media and performance; music; medicine; the history of affect and the emotions; the literature and practices of devotion; the theory and history of gender and sexuality, ecocriticism and the environment; theories of aesthetics; medievalism. The field of medieval francophone literary culture outside France was for many years a minor and peripheral sub-field of medieval French literary studies (or, in the case of Anglo-Norman, of English studies). The past two decades, however, have seen a major reassessment of the use of French in England, in the Low Countries, in Italy, and in the eastern Mediterranean, and this impacts significantly upon the history of literature in French more generally. This book is the first to look at the question overall, rather than just at one region. It also takes a more sustained theorised approach than other studies, drawing particularly on Derrida and on Actor-Network Theory. It discusses a wide range of texts, some of which have hitherto been regarded as marginal to French literary history, and makes the case for this material being more central to the literary history of French than was allowed in more traditional approaches focused narrowly on 'France'. Many of the arguments in Medieval French Literary Culture Abroad are grounded in readings of texts in manuscript (rather than in modern critical editions), and sustained attention is paid throughout to manuscripts that were produced or travelled outside the kingdom of France.

About the Author
Jane Gilbert is Senior Lecturer in French at University College London. Simon Gaunt is Professor of French Language and Literature at King's College London and a Fellow of the British Academy. William Burgwinkle is Emeritus Professor of French at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.

Reviews
This book is admirable in its depth and its breadth; individual chapters focus on the specifics of texts and manuscripts while topics range across time and space. It provides readers with a new way of thinking about medieval literary culture as constantly evolving, moving, and adapting, without being tied to authors, origins, or centers ... They propose a persuasive, mobile vision of medieval French, its texts, and its manuscripts that is open to a range of histories and futurities, nationalisms and pre-nationalisms, localizations and universalities. * J. R. Mattison, Comitatus *



Book Information
ISBN 9780198832454
Author Jane Gilbert
Format Hardback
Page Count 304
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 610g
Dimensions(mm) 241mm * 170mm * 25mm