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Item Number: 130333
Title: Flowering of Medieval French Literature “Au parler que m’aprist ma mere”
Author: Hindman, Sandra ; Ariane Bergeron-Foote
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780991517206
Description: London: Holberton, 2014. 30cm., pbk., 256pp., 100 color illus. Exhibition to be held at Les Enluminures, New York. Summary: This beautifully illustrated catalogue explores the rise, affirmation and triumph of the French vernacular, focusing on a group of sixteen manuscripts all written in the French language between about 1300 and 1525. Because many of these manuscripts are virtually unknown and previously unpublished, first-hand study of them offers a unique opportunity to reassess certain approaches to later medieval French literature. Mostly illuminated, the manuscripts are widely diverse. They are written in verse and in prose. Some are translations from the Latin, others new compositions entirely in French. They treat a wide variety of subjects ranging from literature and science, to philosophy and theology, and to history and government. There are some unique texts that exist only in the manuscripts included here. A significant number of the volumes boast royal provenance. There are signed and dated works by newly identified scribes, as well as works by famous calligraphers. Some of the manuscripts still have their original bindings. Prefaced with an introductory essay by Sandra Hindman, the cataloue divides the manuscripts into five sections: I) Literature and Science: The Rise and Affirmation of the Vernacular; II) Philosophy and Theology: Translations and Adaptations of the Classics; III) History and Genealogy: the Nation and the Individual; IV) Women Writers and Women Bibliophiles: Memory and Self-Assertion; V) From Manuscript to Print: The Circulation of Texts and the Triumph of the French Vernacular.
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