La Complainte Rutebeuf 1260

For further information on Blackwell Publishing, visit our website: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com Contents Preface 1 THE MIDDLE AGES Introduction Language Literature Its diffusion Authors Hagiography The chanson de geste Lyric poetry to Rutebeuf Romance Comic realism Le Roman de Renard 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’