A Companion to Alain Chartier - C.1385-1430 ― Father of French Eloquence

In Alain Chartier: Pere de l’eloquence francaise contributors explore the diverse literary production of this influential late-medieval writer, whose concern with personal and political ethics and renovation of poetic form inspired generations of writers, and still resonate with modern readers.

Daisy Delogu (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 2003) is Associate Professor of French at the University of Chicago. She is the author ofTheorizing the Ideal Sovereign (Toronto, 2008) and Allegorical Bodies: Power and Gender in Late Medieval France (Toronto, 2015).Joan E. McRae (Ph.D. University of Virginia, 1997), Professor of French at Middle Tennessee State University has publishedAlain Chartier: The Quarrel of the Belle dame sans mercy (Routledge, 2004) andLe Cycle de la Belle Dame sans mercy, with David Hult (Champion 2003).Emma Cayley (BA, MA, DPhil Oxford) is Head of Modern Languages and Associate Professor of Medieval French at the University of Exeter. Her publications on Chartier includeDebate and Dialogue (OUP, 2006); Chartier in Europe with Ashby Kinch (Brewer, 2008).