Introduction: Medieval French on the Move

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. List of Contributors IX
4. List of Illustrations and Tables XIII
5. Foreword: Keith Busby XV
6. Introduction: Medieval French on the Move 1
7. 1 French in Contact
8. France, French and the French in Medieval Swedish Literature 15
9. The Textual History of a Middle English Poem: The Boke of Curtesy in England, France and the Low Countries 31
10. The Solaz de un dame (Harley 209): An Anglo- Norman Masterpiece of Erotic Metaphor? 51
11. L’Istoire des neuf preux princes et seigneurs: A Fifteenth-century Compilation in French from the Low Countries? 77
12. Walter de Bibbesworth’s Tretiz as Contextualised Lexicography 93
13. French in Harmony? The Representation of Language in BnF fr. 1588 111
14. 2 French on the Move
15. Two Tiny Strips of Parchment: The Hoogstraten Fragment of Arturs doet in its French and Dutch Context 133
16. Combining Welsh and French Traditions in Calais: The Chronicle of Elis Gruffydd 151
17. Medieval Britain and the Transmission of the Chansons de Geste 169
18. Perceval Moves North: Some Observations on Parcevals saga as a Translation of Le Conte du Graal 183
19. The Foundation of the Sanctuary of the Grail in Albrecht’s Titurel: A Reception of the Roman du Mont Saint-Michel? 197
20. Thomas of Britain English’d 211
21. Illustrations of French Vernacular Texts and Central Europe 229
22. 3 French in Action
23. Chronicling Chrétien in Medieval England: Re-visiting London, College of Arms, MS Arundel XIV 245
24. Constellations of Authority: From French into West Norse 265
25. Guillebert de Mets: A Bilingual Scribe, Author and Publisher between Flanders and Paris (c. 1390–c. 1438) 287
26. Arthurian Stories and the Latin East: Traces and Re-Enactments 307
27. The Long Shadow of the Crusades: Crusader Networks around Chrétien de Troyes 331
28. Crusade, Pilgrimage and Transformation: Le Pèlerinage de Charlemagne in Context 351
29. Franco-Irish Connections from Prehistory to the Middle Ages: An Overview 373
30. Afterword 409
31. Index 417