Medieval French Literary Culture Abroad

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Medieval French Literary Culture Abroad
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Acknowledgements
Contents
Maps and Figures
Introduction
	The Problem and Its Scale
	This Book
1: Local French outside France: Gaimar’s Estoire des Engleis and the Second Mise en Prose of the Roman de Troie
	England c. 1136
	Italy c. 1270
2: Francophone Literary Culture on the Move: Northern Italy
3: Living History: Pierre de Langtoft and London, BL, Royal MS 20 A II
	Scotland, England, and the North-East
	Langtoft’s Geste: The Politics of Language, Form, and Discourse
	The ‘Political Songs’ and a Living Historiography
	Royal 20 A II: History in Time
	Royal 20 A II: The Turn to French Prose Romance
	Conclusion
4: History, Time, and Empire: The Histoire ancienne in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem
	Acre as Political and Textual Node
	The Histoire ancienne jusqu’à César
	The problem with saying almost
	Acre Manuscripts of the Histoire ancienne
	Illuminations
5: The Movement of Books: Two Manuscript Studies
	Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS 5667E
	London, BL, Royal MS 20 D 1
6: Dark Networks: Prehistories, Post-histories, and Imagined Geographies
	The Peacock and the Low Countries
	Conclusion
Conclusion: Networks, Communities, Language, and the Writing of History: Medieval French Literary Culture Outside France
Bibliography
Index