A companion to Alain Chartier (c. 1385-1430) : father of French eloquence / edited by Daisy Delogu, Joan E. McRae, Emma Cayley.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-364) and index.

Introduction / Daisy Delogu, Joan E. McRae, and Emma Cayley -- Part 1. Chartier in his cultural, literary, and material context -- Alain Chartier : a historical and biographical overview / James Laidlaw -- Alain Chartier's singularity, or How sources make an author / Andrea Tarnowski -- The bilingual Chartier : authorial dualitv and identity in the French / Emma Cayley and Hanno Wijsman -- The illuminated manuscripts of the works of Alain Chartier / Camille Serchuk -- Part 2. Approaches to Chartier -- Performance and polemic : gender and emotion in the works of Alain Chartier / Daisy Delogu -- Alain Chartier and chivalry : debating knighthood in the context of the Hundred Years War / Craig Taylor -- Alain Chartier, political writer / Jean-Claude Mühlethaler and Daisy Delogu -- Part 3. Textual communities -- "Que tous se rall'ient" : Alain Chartier, Pierre de Nesson, and the poetics of peace / Deborah McGrady -- A community of readers : the quarrel of the Belle dame sans mercy / Joan E. McRae -- Alain Chartier : the manuscript and print tradition / Olivia Robinson -- Part 4. Charterian influence -- Alain Chartier and medieval Catalan literature / Marta Maifany -- Chartier's European influence / Ashby Kinch -- Alain Chartier and the Rhetoriqueurs / Adrian Armstrong -- A good carter as guide : imitating Alain Chartier (15th century-early 17th century) / Florence Bouchet.

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In Alain Chartier: Père de l'éloquence française contributors explore the diverse literary production of this influential late-medieval writer, whose concern with personal and political ethics and renovation of poetic form inspired generations of writers, and still resonate with modern readers.

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