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The Familiar Enemy re‐examines the linguistic, literary, and cultural identities of England and France within the context of the Hundred Years War. During this... 
literary studies (early and medieval) | Middle English, 1100-1500 | English influences | French literature | To 1500 | English literature | History | Nationalism and literature | d. 1400 | Great Britain | History and criticism | France | Chaucer, Geoffrey | French influences | Chaucer | Gower | Nation | Deschamps | Henry V | Hundred Years War | Anglo-French | Shakespeare | Anglo-Norman | Froissart | Jeanne d'Arc | Multilingual

Anglo-Norman dialect | Anglo-Norman literature | Influence on English | English literature | England Languages | Language and culture | History and criticism | Social aspects | History | French language | French influences

This is an innovative and original exploration of the connections between Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, one of the most well-known works of medieval English... 
Comparative literature | French poetry | English (Middle) and French (Old) | Arthurian romances | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | Romances, English | French (Old) and English (Middle) | Romances | Gawain (Legendary character) | Chivalry in literature | History and criticism | Knights and knighthood in literature | literary studies (early and medieval) | Ethical orientation | arthurian romance | Structural patterns | Motifs | Courtliness | Conscience | Social context | Chretien de Troyes | Feudalism | Gawain

What do we know of medieval childhood? Were boundaries always clear between childhood and young adulthood? Was medieval childhood gendered? Scholars have been... 
Children in literature | Social & Cultural History | Medieval History 400-1500 | French poetry | Youth in literature

Some of medieval culture's most arresting images and stories inextricably associate love and death. Thus the troubadour Jaufre Rudel dies in the arms of the... 
Provençal literature | Courtly love in literature | Death in literature | History and criticism | French literature | literary studies (early and medieval) | To 1500 | Courtly love | Ethics | Psychoanalysis | Medieval French literature | Lacan | Medieval occitan literature | Death | Courtly romance | Troubadours | Provencal literature

In the 16th century, Latin theorists and French vernacular writers shared a common preoccupation with problems of writing, its nature, and status. The focus of... 
Rhetoric | History | History and criticism | French literature | literature | Montaigne | French vernacular writers | Erasmian theory | Rabelais | Cornucopia | Ronsard | Latin theorists | Problems of writing

This book examines the literary representation of madness in a series of medieval French texts, including both romance and hagiography. The study covers both... 
Mental illness in literature | History and criticism | French literature | literary studies (early and medieval) | Medieval romance | Holy fool | Medieval french literature | Hagiography | Madness in literature

Exchanges in Exoticismdemonstrates how the process of cultural exchange - and empire building - extends well beyond our traditional assumptions about gender... 
Mediterranean influences | Sex role in literature | French literature | Women in literature | Nobility in literature | National characteristics, French, in literature | Byzantine literature | History and criticism | To 1500 | Language & Literature | History

This book takes a new approach to questions of gender and authorship. Examining French literature from the medieval period, it looks not at historical women... 
Women and literature | Authorship | History | History and criticism | French literature | Women poets in literature | European literature

"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... 
Middle English, 1100-1500 | English language | Anglo-Norman literature | French literature | Native language | To 1500 | English literature | History and criticism | Middle French, 1300-1600 | French language

This book is a ground-breaking study of the cultural and linguistic consequences of the English invasion of Ireland in 1169, and examines the ways in which the... 
Irish authors | Normans | Ireland History | French literature | Irish influences | English literature | History | French influences

Reforming French Culture is a ground-breaking work on the literary genre of Reformation satire-colloquial, obscene, scatological-designed to mock the excesses... 
Reformation in literature | Counter-Reformation in literature | History and criticism | French literature | Literary Studies (Early and Medieval) | Literature | Religious foreignness | Spiritual alienation | Polemic | Controversial literature | Religious humor | Legal profession | Satire | Reformation | Frenchness | Defamiliarization

In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, new ways of storytelling and inventing fictions appeared in the French-speaking areas of Europe. This new art still... 
Dialectic in literature | Literature | Logic in literature | French literature | Latin literature | Philosophy, Medieval | History and criticism | Philosophy | To 1500

Transforming Tales argues that the study of transformation is crucial for understanding a wide range of canonical work in medieval French literature. From the... 
History and criticism | French literature | Metamorphosis in literature | literature | literary studies (early and medieval) | To 1500

Civilization, Medieval, in literature | East and West in literature | History and criticism | Istanbul (Turkey) In literature | French literature

Remembering Boethius explores the rich intersection between the reception of Boethius and the literary construction of aristocratic identity, focusing on a... 
Identity (Psychology) in literature | Medieval Literature | Literary History | Medieval & Renaissance Philosophy | Medieval History 400-1500 | Roman influences | Boethius | Influence | Philosophy, Medieval | De consolatione philosophiae | d. 524 | 524.-De consolatione philosophiae | 524-Influence | Boethius, c.480-524 | Classical Influence | Middle English and Fifteenth Century | Medieval French Literature | English Literature | General | Class Identity

The prologue to Layamon's Brut recounts its author's extensive travels 'wide yond thas leode' (far and wide across the land) to gather the French, Latin and... 
French literature | To 1500 | Prologues and epilogues | Translators | Literature, Medieval | History and criticism | History | Translations into English | French language

Jesus Christ In literature

"Giants are a ubiquitous feature of medieval romance. As remnants of a British prehistory prior to the civilization established, according to the Historium... 
French literature | To 1500 | Arthurian romances | Outsiders in literature | Romances | Civilization, Medieval, in literature | History and criticism | Giants in literature | LITERARY CRITICISM | Gothic & Romance | Medieval | LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval