Machine generated contents note: From Lyons to Antwerp Paris et Vienne in the Low Countries / Ana Pairet. French Literature in Mono- and Multilingual Social Contexts The Production and Reception of French Literary Manuscripts in Thirteenth-Century Flanders / Lisa Demets -- Compilation as Palimpsest Tracing Origins of the Histoire ancienne jusqu'a Cesar in the Liber Floridus / Hannah Morcos -- Brabant, Holland, and Confession in the Cent Nouvelles nouvelles Regional Stereotypes and Proverbial Commonplaces / Catherine Emerson -- From Lyons to Antwerp Paris et Vienne in the Low Countries / Ana Pairet.
Summary:
In late medieval and early modern times, books, as well as the people who produced and read (or listened to) them, moved between regions, social circles, and languages with relative ease. Yet, in the multilingual Low Countries, francophone literature was both internationally mobile and firmly rooted in local soil. The five contributions collected in this volume demonstrate that while in general issues of 'otherness' were resolved without difficulty, at other times (linguistic) differences were perceived as a heartfelt reality. Texts and books in French, Latin, and Dutch were as interrelated and mobile as their authors. As awareness of the francophone literature of the medieval and early modern Low Countries continues to grow, texts in all three languages will be ever more firmly connected in an intricate and multilingual weave.
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