The Library in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century French Literature: Benoît de Sainte-Maure'sRoman de Troie, Chrétien de Troyes'sCligès, and Adenet le Roi'sBerte as grans piés
Emma Campbell
The allusion to a real or imaginary source is commonplace in medieval literature; however, some writers take this reference sources stage further and speak about the discovery of work library book collection, occasionally evoking particular place names locations. If library’s depiction such instances elaborates upon common motif, it also raises issue imaginative that elaboration might perform, inviting reflection on historical conceptualization collections relationship knowledge they connote. To extent features more modern discussions, as figure metaphor has usually been thought connection with periods subsequent Middle Ages, often being associated organization throwing into chaos systems knowledge. This article considers how appears twelfth- thirteenth-century francophone literature offers alternative ways imagining hierarchies from those modernity post-modernity, are less concerned classification notions ordered space than relationships among writers, readers, texts.
French Studies