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Creole medievalism : colonial France and Joseph Bédier's Middle Ages /

Joseph Bédier (1864-1938) was one of the most famous scholars of his day. He held prestigious posts and lectured throughout Europe and the United States, an activity unusual for an academic of his time. A scholar of the French Middle Ages, he translated Tristan and Isolde as well as France's n...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Warren, Michelle R., 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Joseph Bédier (1864-1938) was one of the most famous scholars of his day. He held prestigious posts and lectured throughout Europe and the United States, an activity unusual for an academic of his time. A scholar of the French Middle Ages, he translated Tristan and Isolde as well as France's national epic, The Song of Roland. Bédier was publicly committed to French hegemony, yet he hailed from a culture that belied this ideal-the island of Réunion in the southern Indian Ocean. In Creole Medievalism, Michelle Warren demonstrates that Bédier's relationship to this multicultural and economically.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xxxii, 379 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780816675418
0816675414
1299944507
9781299944503