Medieval French Interlocutions

THOMAS O'DONNELL is Associate Professor of English and Medieval Studies at Fordham University, New York, USA. JANE GILBERT is Professor of Medieval Literature and Critical Theory at University College London, UK. BRIAN J. REILLY is Associate Professor of French at Fordham University, New York, USA. BRIAN J. REILLY is Associate Professor of French at Fordham University, New York, USA. JANE GILBERT is Professor of Medieval Literature and Critical Theory at University College London, UK. THOMAS O'DONNELL is Associate Professor of English and Medieval Studies at Fordham University, New York, USA.

• List of IllustrationsContributorsAcknowledgementsList of Abbreviations Introduction - Thomas O'Donnell, Jane Gilbert and Brian J. Reilly 1. Our Language and the Others: Old French Glosses in Berekhiah Ha-Naqdan's Uncle and Nephew and Commentary on the Book of Job - Ruth Nisse2. From Liutprand of Cremona to Robert de Clari: Wonder and the Translation of Knowledge Before and After the Crusader Conquest of Constantinople - Teresa Shawcross3. Mixed Metaphors, Mixed Forms: Across Medieval Hebrew and French Prosimetra - Isabelle Levy4. Deeds and Dialogue from a French-Irish Medieval Cultural Sphere - Máire Ní Mhaonaigh5. The Presence of French in German Courtly Literature c.1200 - Mark Chinca6. Marco Polo and the Multilingual Middle Ages - Sharon Kinoshita7. Romancing Allegory: Theories of the Vernacular in Outremer - Uri Zvi Shachar8. 'Dize en la estoria francesca': The Circulation of Francophone Matter of Antiquity in Medieval Castile (c.1200-1369) - Clara Pascual-Argente9. Anxiety in the Contact Zone: The Debate of the Body and the Soul in late-medieval French and Occitan poetry - Catherine Léglu10. The Uses of French in Medieval Wales - Georgia Henley11. In Between Dutch and French: Multilingual Literary Patronage of the Flemish Nobility in the Fifteenth Century - Bart Besamusca and Lisa Demets12. Sicilian Multilingualism and Cosmopolitan French - Karla MalletteBibliographyIndex