{"product_id":"9780802072023","title":"The French Tradition and the Literature of Medieval England","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe French presence in English literary history in the centuries following the Conquest has to some extent been glossed over or treated as an interlude. During this period, roughly 1100-1420, French, like Latin, was the language of the educated; in the courts of England, and for nobles, clerics, and the rising commercial elements, communication was multilingual.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his ground-breaking study, William Calin explores indepth this era of medieval English literature and culture in relation to its distinctly French influences and contemporaries. He examines the Anglo-Norman contribution to medieval literature, concentrating on romance and hagiography; the great continental French texts, such as \u003cem\u003eProse Lancelot\u003c\/em\u003e and the\u003cem\u003e Romance of the Rose\u003c\/em\u003e, which had a dominant role in shaping literature in English; and the English response to the French cultural world - the two 'modes' in English where the French presence was most significant: court poetry (Chaucer, Gower, Hoccleve) and Middle English romance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is grounded in French sources both well-known and relatively obscure. Translations of the Old French make \u003cem\u003eThe French Tradition and the Literature of Medieval England\u003c\/em\u003e accessible to scholars and students of Medieval English, comparatists, and historians, as well as those proficient in French. Calin develops a synthesis of medieval French and English literature that will be especially useful for classroom study.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47021110296816,"sku":"9780802072023","price":42.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780802072023_p0.jpg?v=1763664451","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780802072023","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}