Medieval boundaries: rethinking difference in old french literature
Editorial UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
Mainland Spain
- Publisher UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
- ISBN13 9780812239195
- ISBN10 0812239199
- Type Book
- Pages 312
- Published 2006
- Language English
- Bookbinding Cloth
Sections
Medieval Literature EuropeanMedieval boundaries: rethinking difference in old french literature
Editorial UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
Mainland Spain
Book Details
In "Medieval Boundaries", Sharon Kinoshita examines the role of cross-cultural contact in twelfth- and early thirteenth-century French literature. Starting from the observation that many of the earliest and best-known works of the French literary tradition are set on or beyond the borders of the French-speaking world, she reads the "Chanson de Roland", the "Lais of Marie de France", and a variety of other texts in an expanded geographical frame that includes the Iberian peninsula, the Welsh marches, and the eastern Mediterranean. In Kinoshita's reconceptualization of the geographical and cultural boundaries of the medieval West, such places become significant not only as sites of conflict but also as spaces of intense political, economic, and cultural negotiation.