Medieval Francophone Literary Cultures project

The Medieval Francophone Literary Culture Outside France project is an AHRC-funded research project that aims, over three-and-a-half years (April 2011 to September 2014), to investigate the movement across Europe and beyond of francophone literature over the three centuries of the high Middle Ages.
It represents a collaboration between King’s College London, University College London (UCL) and the University of Cambridge. The project team unites specialists on the relations between the langue d’oïl or medieval Northern French and major European languages (Occitan, Italian, Dutch, German, English) to explore how key literary texts travelled along two principal axes:  a northern route that stretches from England across the Low Countries to Burgundy and the Rhineland; a southern route across the Alps to Northern Italy and out into the Mediterranean and Adriatic seas, to the Middle East.
The project will establish a database of manuscripts of the key texts in order to ask questions about cultural and linguistic identity, about medieval textuality, and about the literary history of Europe.

Further information: http://www.medievalfrancophone.ac.uk/

www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/conquering-a-continent-how-the-french-language-circulated-in-britain-and-medieval-europe

Image from a 14th century manuscript of the Romance of the rose, one of the best-known texts of the Middle Ages.
Credit: Cambridge University Library