Linguistic and Material Counterculturalism in the French Renaissance: Claude Fauchet’s Recueil de l’origine de la langue et poesie françoise (1581)
Anton Bruder
Our current paradigm of sixteenth-century French vernacular discourse can be epitomized on the one hand by classically inspired poetics translatio propounded Pléiade, and other, scholarly efforts to establish a noble genealogy for language writers such as printer Hellenist Henri Estienne. This picture, however, merely constitutes several narratives regarding vernacular. Claude Fauchet’s Recueil de l’origine la langue et poesie françoise (1581) provides evidence lively appreciative interest in medieval poetry among group Parisian jurist-humanists whose valorization textual material culture was developed direct opposition dominant tenor contemporary which sought break away from France’s past. Fauchet particular is notable his seminal contribution literary history, keen awareness role vernaculars sensitivity towards aspects native
Early modern French studies