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Title Literature of the French and Occitan middle ages: eleventh to fifteenth centuries / Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi and Ian S. Laurie, editors.

Publication Info. Detroit, Mich. : Gale Group, 1999.

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Series Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 208
Dictionary of literary biography complete online
Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 208.
Dictionary of literary biography complete online.
Contents Peter Abelard (circa 1079-1142?) - Alain de Lille (Alanus de Insluis) (circa 1116-1202 or 1203) - Andreas Capellanus ( flourished circa 1185) - Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) - Bernard Silvestris (flourished circa 1130-1160) - Charles d'Orleans (1394-1465) - Alain Chartier (circa 1385-1430) - Chretien de Troyes (circa 1140 cica 1190) - Christine de Pizan (circa 1365-circa 1431) - Philippe de Commynes (circa 1447-1511) - Eustache Deschamps (1340?-1404) - Jean Froissart (circa 1337-circa 1404) - Jean Gerson (1363-1429) - Oton de Grandson (circa 1345-1397) - Hugh of St. Victor (circa 1096-1141) - Jacques de Vitry (circa 1160 or 1170-1240) - John of Garland (Jean of Garlande, Johannis de Garlandia) circa 1195-circa 1272 ) -- Antoine de La Sale (circa 1386-1460 or 1461) - Guillaume de Machaut (circa 1300-1377) - Marie de France (flourished 1160-1178) - Matthew of Vendome (circa 1130-circa 1200) - Philippe de Mezieres (circa 1327-1405) -- Na Prous Boneta (circa 1296-1328) - Nicolas de Clamanges (circa 1363-1437) - Marguerite Porete (?-1310) - Rashi (circa 1040-1105) - Richard de Fournival (1201-1259 or 1260) - Rutebeuf (flourished 1249-1277) - Geoffroi de Villehardouin (circa 1150-circa 1215) - Francois Villon (1431-circa 1463?) - Philippe de Vitry (1291-1361) - Epic and Beast Epic - French Arthurian Literature - Medieval French Drama (circa 1200-circa 1500) - "Roman de la Rose": Guillaume de Lorris (1200 to 1205-circa 1230), Jean de Meun (1235 to 1240-circa 1305) - Saints' Lives - Troubadours, "Trobairitz", and Trouveres.
Summary Essays on French authors from the eleventh to the fifteenth century. Discusses the impact of Roman heritage and the Romance languages of this period, as well as Hagiography, epic poems, extant manuscripts, writings in Occitan by southern French lyric poets, troubadours, religious and miracle plays, novelists, moralizing fables, cynicism, parodies, polemics, the fabliau, the gradual adoption of the fixed forms, the farce, and French prose.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mi: Gale, 2007. Available via World Wide Web.
Original Version Original: 440 p.
System Details Mode of access: Internet.
Subject Authors, French -- To 1500 -- Biography.
Authors, French.
Chronological Term To 1500
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject French literature -- To 1500.
French literature.
Provençal poetry.
Provençal poetry.
Troubadours -- Biography.
Troubadours.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Added Author Laurie, Ian S.
Sinnreich-Levi, Deborah M.
Gale Group.
ISBN 0787631027
9780787631024