Medieval Francophonia and Occitan

The volume deals with the imagined Charlemagne in a variety of genres in various dialects of continental French, including Burgundian and Anglo-Norman and in Occitan.

Ed. Philip E. Bennett (University of Edinburgh) and Marianne J. Ailes (University of Bristol).

Contents:

Introduction: Charlemagne in the langue d’oïl and in Occitan – Philip E. Bennett and Marianne Ailes
1. Charlemagne in Occitania – Catherine Léglu
2. Charlemagne the Ruler in the Continental Langue d’oïl: Secular and Spiritual Functions – Philip E. Bennett
3. Charlemagne the Warrior in the Continental Langue d’oïl – Philip E. Bennett
4. Reading Charlemagne in Medieval England – Marianne J. Ailes
5. Charlemagne in Burgundian Literature of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries – Catherine Emerson
6. Epilogue: Afterlives of Charlemagne – Marianne Ailes and Philip E. Bennett

Bibliography of Works Cited
Index