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Reading Medieval French Literature from a Global Perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Sahar Amer
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Only in the last decade has the field of medieval french literature recognized the need for a critical gaze that looks outside France and beyond the persistent Eurocentric accounts of medieval French literary history. These accounts long viewed medieval French literary production primarily in relation to the Latin, Celtic, and Provençal traditions. My research over the last twenty years has called for a revisionist history of literature and of empires and has highlighted the fact that throughout the Middle Ages France entertained “inter-imperial” literary relations—not only with European traditions but also with extra-European cultures, specifically with the Islamicate world.

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Theories and Methodologies
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PMLA , Volume 130 , Issue 2 , March 2015 , pp. 367 - 374
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2015

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