Medieval Boundaries: Rethinking Difference in Old French Literature

by Sharon Kinoshita

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812239199
• ISBN13: 9780812239195
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.1"