Studies manuscript sources, often of under-studied works and writers, to reassess the use of French as a literary language outside France in the medieval period.

• Introduction


• 1: Local French Outside France


• 2: Francophone Literary Culture on the Move: Northern Italy


• 3: Living History: Pierre de Langtoft and London, BL, Royal MS 20 A II


• 4: History, Time, and Empire: the Histoire ancienne in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem


• 5: The Movement of Books: Two Manuscript Studies


• 6: Dark Networks: Pre-histories, Post-histories and Imagined Geographies


• Conclusion: Networks, Communities, Language, and the Writing of History: Medieval French Literary Culture Outside France

Jane Gilbert is Senior Lecturer in French at University College London.
Simon Gaunt is Professor of French Language and Literature at King's College London and a Fellow of the British Academy.
William Burgwinkle is Emeritus Professor of French at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.