French: Recent submissions
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Anglo-French in the Thirteenth Century: A Reappraisal of Walter de Bibbesworth's 'Tretiz'
(Modern Humanities Research Association, 1 October 2017)The Tretiz of Walter de Bibbesworth has become an increasingly important touchstone in discussions of the position of French in medieval England. Yet the usual account of this text – as a functional defence of French in ... -
Taste and Trade: The Drinking Portraits of Alexis Grimou
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge) / College Art Association, 12 March 2019)This essay revises Alexis Grimou’s posthumous reputation as a drunkard through close engagement with his portraits and fantasy figures of drinkers. The artist projects refined sociability in his self-portraits as a drinker ... -
The form of authority in medieval translation: Brunetto Latini’s translations of Cicero
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Chrétien de Troyes’ Lancelot, ou le Chevalier de la Charrette: Courtly Love
(De Gruyter, 1 June 2017)“Courtly love” has long been a term medievalists cannot live with, yet cannot live without. It famously first appeared – in the French form amour courtois – towards the end of the nineteenth century in a two-part article ...