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The fabliau The literature of devotion, moral reflection and information Learning and ideas Theatre Later lyric poetry Fifteenth-century ‘modernism’ Chartier Charles d’Orléans The anti-courtly reaction ‘Rhétoriqueurs’ Villon Conclusion xxii 1 1 2 2 3 4 6 7 10 12 17 17 18 19 22 23 25 26 27 27 28 29 29 30 vi 2 CONTENTS THE RENAISSANCE The Age of François I The restitution of letters and the renewal of faith The impact of Italy Philology Neoplatonism Neo-stoicism The new learning Erasmus The