The Values of French

The Values of French Language and Literature in the European Middle Ages. ERC Advanced Grant (no. 670726) at King's College London

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Activities and Events

You can find on this page some selected materials illustrating TVOF’s activities: three videos, a list of selected publications by members of the team, and links to a selection of the PowerPoint presentations members of the team have used at conferences and invited lectures.

Videos

More about Narrating history across languages in medieval Europe, the June 2019 conference organised by TVOF in collaboration with the British Library: programme and abstracts.

Figshare Records

Our XML-TEI files and research software are now stored and available to access at Figshare.com. There are four records for the core datasets (Edition, Alignment, Lemmatisation and Research Software) grouped in a 'collection' for the project. For more information see Natasha's blog post on data management (6/7/2020).

The Values of French Literature and Language in the European Middle Ages https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4873335.v1

The Histoire ancienne jusqu’à César: A Digital Edition https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.11907081.v1

The Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César: Alignment https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.11907249.v1

The Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César: Lemmatisation and Search https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.11830386.v1

The Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César: Research Software https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.11907255.v2

Selected Publications

  • Simon Gaunt, ‘Texte et/ou manuscrit? A propos de l’Histoire ancienne jusqu’à César’, in En Français hors de France, ed. Sylvie Lefèvre and Fabio Zinelli (Paris: RLiR, forthcoming). Download the author’s manuscript.
  • Simone Ventura, ‘Digital Editing and Linguistic Analysis: The First Redaction of the Histoire ancienne jusqu’à César’, Textual Cultures 12 (2019). Download the author’s manuscript or go to the website.
  • Maria Teresa Rachetta, ‘Sull’Histoire ancienne jusqu’à César: le origini della versione abbreviata; il codice Wien ÖNB cod. 2576. Per la storia di una tradizione’ Francigena 5 (2019): 27-57. Go to the website or download the article.
  • Maria Teresa Rachetta, ‘Sulla sezione storica del Tresor: Brunetto Latini e l’Histoire ancienne jusqu’à César’, Medioevo Romanzo 42 (2018): 284-311. Go to the website.
  • Simone Ventura, ‘The manuscripts of the First Redaction of the the Histoire ancienne jusqu’à César (13th century): Textual Variation and Linguistic Coding’, Medioevo Romanzo 41 (2017): 316-363. Go to the website.
  • Simon Gaunt, ‘Philology and the Global Middle Ages: British Library Royal MS 20 D 1’, Medioevo Romanzo 40 (2016): 27-47. Go to the website.
  • Simon Gaunt, ‘French Literature Abroad: Towards an Alternative History of French Literature’, Interfaces 1 (2015): 25-61. Go to the website or download the article.
Royal 20 D I f.154r

London, British Library, 20 D I (f. 154r). Reproduced with the permission of the British Library Board.

PowerPoint presentations

  • Narrating history across languages in medieval Europe.

An international conference organised by The Values of French (An ERC Advanced Grant at King’s College London) in collaboration with the British Library.

  1. Simon Gaunt, Babel and the language(s) of universal history in the Middle Ages. Download the presentation.
  2. Mark Chinca, Kaiserchronik connections. Download the presentation.
  3. Karla Mallette, Furtuna fallenti: Sicilian vernacular history as affective history. Download the presentation.
  4. Rosa M. Rodríguez Porto, Multilingualism and visual literacy: The development of the illustrated history book (1250-1280). Download the presentation.
  • Histoire ancienne Workshop

The Values of French hosted an international workshop at King’s College London (23-24 March 2018) for colleagues working (or who have worked) on the Histoire ancienne jusqu’à César. For an overview of the workshop, read this blog post by two postgraduate attendees.

  1. Simon Gaunt, The Values of French Literature and Language in the European Middle Ages. Download the presentation.
  2. Fabio Zinelli, Simone Ventura, La langue de l'Histoire ancienne. Download the presentation.
  3. Maria Teresa Rachetta, Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas, Francesco Montorsi, La compilation de l'Histoire ancienne. Download the presentation.
  4. Nicola Morato, Michelle Szkilnik, Henry Ravenhall, La narration de l'histoire. Download the presentation.
  5. Simon Gaunt, Rosa Rodriguez Porto, Marilynn Desmond, L'Histoire ancienne en performance. Download the presentation.
  6. Catherine Croizy-Naquet, Matteo Cambi, Luca di Sabatino (coordinator: Irene Salvo Garcia), Le remaniement et la représentation de l'Histoire ancienne. Download the presentation.
  7. Anne Rochebouet, Craig Baker, Hannah Morcos, Editer l'Histoire ancienne. Download the presentation.
  • Presentations by the TVOF team

Maria Teresa Rachetta, Lignage e nation. Identità e alterità di gruppo nelle Bibbie in versi antico francesi ('Confini e parole. Identità e alterità nell'epica e nel romanzo medievali', Rome, 21 September 2017). Download the presentation.

TVOF team, The Values of French Language and Literature in the European Middle Ages (Journal of Romance Studies symposium, London, 6 June 2017). Download the presentation.

Simone Ventura, TVOF Linguistic Seam (London, KCL, 17 March 2017). Download the presentation.

Simon Gaunt, Texte et/ou manuscrit? A propos de l'Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César ('En français hors de France', Paris, 9 December 2016). Download the presentation.

Simon Gaunt, Romancing the Truth: Vernacular History and the Origin of Fiction (NYU / Maison Française, New York, 22 November 2016). Download the presentation.

Simone Ventura, Do You See What I Mean? The Text, the Manuscript, and the Digital (NYU / Maison Française, New York, 21 November 2016). Download the presentation.

Simone Ventura, The Scribe as a Linguist ('Language in Motion' The 51st Conference on Editorial Problems, Pontifical Institute in Medieval Studies, Toronto, 18 November 2016). Download the presentation.

Hannah Morcos and Maria Teresa Rachetta, The Values of French Language and Literature in the European Middle Ages ('L'Europe des récits en langue d'oïl', Université de Liège, Liège, 9 November 2016). Download the presentation.

Simon Gaunt, Can Comparative Literature Be Monolingual? (ICLA, Vienna, 26 July 2016). Download the presentation.

Simon Gaunt, Manuscripts as Agents: the Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César (Humboldt University, Berlin, 11 May 2016). Download the presentation.