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Story, Myth, and Celebration in Old French Narrative Poetry, 1050-1200
By (Author) Karl D. Uitti
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
841.1
Hardback
270
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
539g
Twelfth-century France has been described as the key to many of the most important developments of medieval civilization. Nowhere is this description more accurate than in the domain of poetic invention. The years 1050 to 1200 witnessed the development of a brilliant body of vernacular narrative that not only expressed the complexity of its own tim