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4 unusual facts about Medieval French literature


European literature

Important classical and medieval traditions are those in Latin, Ancient Greek, Old Bulgarian, Old Norse, Medieval French and the Italian Tuscan dialect of the renaissance.

José Leite de Vasconcelos

On the founding of the Faculty of Letters at the University of Lisbon in 1911, he was appointed professor of Latin and Medieval French.

Matilda Bruckner

Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner is an American scholar of Medieval French literature.

Medieval French literature

Farce – a realistic, humorous, and even coarse satire of human failings


Gautier le Leu

He is one of the most important authors of fabliaux, six of which are attributed to him (mostly on erotic and scatological topics) and also wrote two dits, a poem of proverbs, and a longer narrative poem.


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