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French

French-language literature across medieval language zones, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Québec, the Caribbean, Africa, the Maghreb, the Indian Ocean, Asia, the Pacific, and diaspora—alongside a separate Joan of Arc documentary source house.

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Texts

GlossaryA reader glossary for French literary languages, forms, periods, worldwide literary cultures, documentary boundaries, and the historical editions currently on the shelf.Introduction to French-Language LiteratureA source-critical introduction to French-language literature as a medieval, metropolitan, colonial, anticolonial, creole, transnational, and multilingual field rather than a France-only national canon.Reader's Guide to French-Language LiteratureReading paths through Old French epic and romance, the Joan source house, and Rabelais, with a candid map of the metropolitan and worldwide French-language fields still absent.
Joan of Arc19 pages

Primary records, historical studies, and reader guides for Joan of Arc, centered on the condemnation and nullification trials, her letters, and the documentary history of her life and reception.

Old French Romance and Epic4 pages

Old French romance, chanson de geste, Grail literature, and courtly narrative, including Chretien de Troyes and the Roland tradition.

Renaissance Prose and Satire1 page

French Renaissance humanism, prose, satire, grotesque comedy, learning, and voyage, opening with the inherited five-book Rabelais collection and its posthumous attribution boundary.

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