East and West: Two Decades of Scholarship on the Medieval Francophone Periphery

Abstract

This article is essentially a survey of scholarship on French literature in Italy and Franco-Italian literature between ca. 2000 and 2020, with an introduction which attempts to situate recent contributions within the history of the discipline as a whole. Brief reference is made to scholarship on modern Francophone literature and a more extensive comparison with that on Anglo-Norman or “Insular French”. Franco-Italian literature can best be seen as an integral but distinctive part of medieval literature in the langue d’oïl.