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.
Texts
Folklore of the Channel Islands, where Norman French and its island dialects lived beside English: customs, legends, witchcraft, charms, songs and proverbs, with the French texts kept as recorded.
Folk tales and literary legends of Flanders and Brabant in English, from tales collected in Flanders to Charles de Coster’s legends written in French, with their collectors, authors and translators named where the books name them.
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, chanson de geste, Grail literature, and courtly narrative, including Chretien de Troyes and the Roland tradition.
French Renaissance humanism, prose, satire, grotesque comedy, learning, and voyage, opening with the inherited five-book Rabelais collection and its posthumous attribution boundary.