Ashley Cole has written this page to invite us to think with her about Le Maitre Pathelin.
“If we couldn’t laugh we would all go insane.” ― Robert Frost
Most of us spend a lot of time trying not to offend people when circumstances call for it. We don’t express continually through excess, though we might use that language with friends.
As we've seen, the Middle Ages are full of questions about how to define the self. In our recent discussions of Aucassin et Nicolette, we questioned the construction of hybridity — specifically, generic hybridity, but also in terms of class, race, and…
Le texte médiéval français le plus connu, le plus répandu, La chanson de Roland est l’épopée médiévale par excellence. On…