Mieux vaut tard que jamais: Reclaiming the Later French Middle Ages
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Special Session
Organizer Name
Jonathan Cayer
Organizer Affiliation
Yale Univ.
Presider Name
Jonathan Cayer
Paper Title 1
Arthur as Dux Bellorum in the Old French Esclarmonde: A Return to Origins?
Presenter 1 Name
Brandy Brown
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Rhodes College
Paper Title 2
"Les hystores qui trettent dou temps de jadis": The Not so Nostalgic Poetic of Froissart’s Arthurian Novel Melyador
Presenter 2 Name
Audray Fontaine
Presenter 2 Affiliation
McGill Univ.
Paper Title 3
Taking Things Out of Context: Andrea da Barberino after the Epic
Presenter 3 Name
Jason Jacobs
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Roger Williams Univ.
Start Date
8-5-2014 10:00 AM
Session Location
Valley II Eicher 202
Description
This panel examines late medieval French literature (including its popularity in Italy) in order to reconstruct a fuller picture of medieval French literature which so often - in standard narrative - appears to more or less stop in the late thirteenth century. Late Arthurian novels, chansons de geste will be discussed.
Jonathan Cayer
Mieux vaut tard que jamais: Reclaiming the Later French Middle Ages
Valley II Eicher 202
This panel examines late medieval French literature (including its popularity in Italy) in order to reconstruct a fuller picture of medieval French literature which so often - in standard narrative - appears to more or less stop in the late thirteenth century. Late Arthurian novels, chansons de geste will be discussed.
Jonathan Cayer