This book places the songs of Renart le nouvel in the broader context of this late medieval romance. As argued here, Renart le nouvel was written in two different stages, its first book around 1260 and its second around 1300...

This important manuscript by Clément Marot consists of one hundred and forty poems, which Marot presented to Anne de Montmorency, "Grand Master" and newly appointed “Constable of France,” in March 1538...

Jean Salmon Macrin (1490-1557), famous neo-latin poet, native from Loudun, in France's Touraine region, held the position of official valet and poet for king Francis the First, like his colleague Clément Marot...

At a time when cultural exchange is a central phenomenon, studying the movements of artists, models, and languages allows for better comprehension of assimilation, emulation, or refusal of customs and traditions from other countries...

The Patient was an active figure in the Eighteenth century medical marketplace. Body perceptions and medical decisions were heavily influenced by lay médical culture and discussions with practitioners of all sorts, but also through social intercourse...

Music influenced the entire corpus of Romain Rolland's literary works. He wrote that music had guided him in the first steps of his life, was his first, and probably last love. As founder of French musicology, Romain Rolland helped rediscover Baroque...