The Values of the Vernacular
Essays in Medieval Romance Languages and Literatures in Dialogue with Simon Gaunt
edited by Hannah Morcos, Maria Teresa Rachetta, Henry Ravenhall, Natasha Romanova and Simone Ventura
Paperback (Published)
(September 2025)
ISBN: 9791254693759
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This book emerges from a seminar convened by Simon Gaunt as part of the major European Research Council-funded project The Values of French Language and Literature in the European Middle Ages (TVOF), which he led from 2015 to 2021. With participants from universities in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and North America, this seminar met in London three times a year to discuss medieval topics ranging from the use of French outside of what is now France, the distinction between history and fiction, differences between romance varieties, and the importance of manuscript culture in the dissemination of cultural values. These topics are addressed here by leading scholars of medieval literature and romance philology, including both seminar members and a wider community of researchers who collaborated with Gaunt. After his untimely passing in 2021, Gaunt’s ideas live on in a series of dialogues he established across traditionally polarised positions in studies of medieval romance languages and literatures. These essays both honour his memory and continue the conversations he started.
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- Abbreviations
- Hannah Morcos, Maria Teresa Rachetta,Henry Ravenhall, Natasha Romanova, Simone Ventura, Introduction. ""French"" in Contact: Dialogues with Simon Gaunt
- I. Lyric discourses / lyric languages
- Anna Alberni, D'un xipelet de set flors enramat (Rao 0,43). El motiu de la corona de flors en un poema anonim catala i el seu possible model frances
- Luca Barbieri, Learning French with Sir Walter of Bibbesworth: From the Tretiz pur aprise de langage to the Debate with Henry de Lacy
- Lino Leonardi, Per l'edizione di Guittone d'Arezzo: Tuttor, s'eo veglio o dormo (XI)
- Fabrizio Cigni, Un ""dittico"" sul tempo di Guiraut Riquier
- Stefano Resconi, Un'idea del provenzale: il genere della pastorella nelle dinamiche del contatto tra oc e oil
- II. Language in/and contact
- Fabio Zinelli, Brunetto Latini in occitanico e i valori testuali del francese
- Adam Ledgeway, The Old French Case System: Evidence from Franco-Italian
- Laura Minervini, Acre, 1231: The First French Charters from the Latin East
- Stephen Dorr, Die Sprache der Juden im franzosischen Mittelalter
- III. Interfaces
- Anna Radaelli, a dues jornades de Bruges. La legenda dei tres Reys fort savis nell'Atlante catalano (Paris, BnF, esp. 30)
- Maria Luisa Meneghetti, Illuminated Rooms between History and Legend: From the Middle Ages to Ariosto
- Marion Uhlig, Le nom des lettres en francais, ou l'Abece de la litterature vernaculaire
- Johannes Junge Ruhland, Voices on Parchment: Who Speaks in Historiographical Multi-Text Manuscripts?
- IV. Historical discourse
- Anna Maria Babbi, La Sibilla nel Roman d'Eneas
- Irene Salvo Garcia, La historiografia francesa (siglos XIII y XIV) y el scriptorium de Alfonso X
- Nicola Morato, Sincronia e totalita. La compagine cronografica dell'Histoire ancienne jusqu'a Cesar
- Francesco Montorsi, Les hystoires sont longes et les escritures fortes. Le prologue de la Chronique dite de Baudouin d'Avesnes et le choix du vernaculaire
- Sophie Marnette, The Value of Reported Discourse
- Coda
- Simon Gaunt , On the Agency of Manuscripts: Language, Place, Time
- Index of Manuscripts
- Index of Names
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- Edited by Hannah Morcos
- Edited by Maria Teresa Rachetta
- Edited by Henry Ravenhall
- Edited by Natasha Romanova
- Edited by Simone Ventura
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