3. Moyen Age et XVIe Siecle
For more sources, see the Harvard course-related research guide:
French
102: Introduction à la littérature médiévale
et à l'ancien français
Le Moyen âge / ouvrage préparé par Robert Bossuat, Louis Pichard et Guy Raynaud de Lage; édition entièrement revue et mise à jour sous la direction de Geneviève Hasenohr et Michel Zink. [Nouv. éd.] [Paris?]: Fayard, [1992]
Widener: WID-LC PQ151 .M69 1992x
Useful introduction followed by signed articles and short bibliographies of primary and secondary sources.
Bibliographies
Barbier, Jean Paul. Ma bibliothèque poétique. Éditions des 15e et 16e siècles des principaux poètes français. Genève, Droz, 1973-
Widener: 37555.1 F
Houghton: *96-409 F
A deluxe edition of facsimiles of incunabula. Color illustrations of volume covers. Contents: 1. ptie. De Guillaume de Lorris à Louise Labé. -- 2. ptie. Ronsard. -- 3. ptie. Ceux de la Pléiade -- 4. ptie. Contemporains et disciples de Ronsard, t. 1, D'Aubigné à Des Masures ; t. 2. De Desportes à la Boétie.
Beugnot, Bernard. Les muses classiques: essai de bibliographie rhétorique et poétique: 1610- 1716. Paris: Klincksieck, 1996.
Widener: WID-LC PN183.Z99 B48 1996x
Detailed scholarly bibliography in five parts: 1) Héritages (2) Poétique et Rhétorique (3) Poétiques et rhétoriques particulières (4) Poétiques et rhétoriques en acte (5) Perspectives européennes.
Bibliografia italiana di studi sull'umanesimo ed il Rinascimento. 1989-
[Firenze]: L.S. Olschki.
Widener: WID-LC DG533.Z99 B53x
Bibliographie internationale de l'Humanisme et de la Renaissance.1-
1965-
Genève, Librairie Droz. Annual. Vols. for 1965- prepared under
the patronage of the Fédération internationale des sociétés
et instituts pour l'étude de la Renaissance; 1972 of the Conseil
international de la philosophie et des sciences humaines.
Widener: H 680.7
Andover-Harv. Theol: Ref. D228 .B52
Fine Arts: RFA 246.8
Each issue has Comptes rendus and Livres reçus sections highlighting and describing new publications.
Bossuat, Robert. Manuel bibliographique de la littérature française du moyen âge. Melun: Librairie d'Argences, 1951.
-- Supplement, 1949-1953 in RR 3173.3
-- Supplement, 1954-1960 in RR 3173.3.1
-- Supplement, 1960-1980 in RR 3173.3.2 (2 volumes)
Lists works written in French or in other Western European languages. General sources followed by works on L'ancien français and Le moyen français. Editions, translations, adaptations, and critical works. Indexes to (1) literary authors and titles and (2) to editors and critical authors.
Cioranescu, Alexandre. Bibliographie de la littérature
française du seizième siècle. Paris:
Klincksieck, 1959.
Widener: RR 3173.30
Houghton: Reading Room HRR 323.3
Widener: 37530.186
Généralitiés, in chapters, includes milieu historique, histoire littéraire, centres de la vie intellectuelle and other topics. The second section, Auteurs, lists primary and secondary sources. Well-indexed.
Crosby, Everett Uberto. Medieval studies: a bibliographical guide / Everett U. Crosby, C. Julian Bishko, Robert L. Kellogg. New York: Garland Pub., 1983.
Widener: RR3602.25
Authoritative annotated bibliography covering the history and culture of West European Middle Ages, Byzantium and medieval Islamic civilization.
Fisher, John H., ed. The medieval literature of western Europe;
a review of research, mainly 1930-1960. [New York] Published
for the Modern Language Association of America by the New York University
Press, 1966.
Widener: Lit 305.28
Lamont: PN671 .F5
Child Memorial: Ch M 1038.1.1
Literature of the Renaissance, 1953-1968. Chapel
Hill, University of North Carolina Press.
Widener: Lit 305.50
Andover-Harv. Theol: Ref. D117 .R66 1969
Annual bibliography published in Studies in philology, 1954-69 (May issue).
Rouse, Richard H. Serial bibliographies for medieval studies.
Berkeley, University of California Press 1969.
Widener: RR3602.20
Widener: WID-LC D117.Z99 R68x
General, national and regional bibliographies followed by bibliographies on history, art, archaeology, literature and linguistics, music, science, technology and medicine.
Taylor, Robert A. (Robert Allen). La littérature occitane du Moyen Age: bibliographie sélective et critique. Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1977.
Widener: WID-LC PC3301.Z99 T39 x
Thomas, David H. A checklist of editions of major French authors in Oxford libraries, 1526- 1800. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, Taylor Institution, 1986.
Widener: WID-LC PQ226.Z99 T56x 1986
Lists Renaissance items available to American scholars: general works and works in English, French, Germanic languages, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese. Largely 18th century editions, some earlier.
Literary Histories and Specialized Sources
Balmas, Enea Henri. De Villon à Ronsard: XVe-XVIe siècles / par Enea Balmas et Yves Giraud. Nouvelle éd. rév. [Paris] Flammarion, 1997.
Widener: WID-LC PQ196 .B35 1997x
Vol. 2 in the Pichois Collection Littérature Français/Poche. --1. Cadres de pensée --2. Le monde des lettres --3. Les Grandes auteurs. Chronology and Bibliography.
Boriaud, Jean Yves. La littérature française du XVIe siècle. Paris: A. Colin, 1995.
Widener: Harvard Depository PQ231
Historical context followed by chapters treating literary genres, Rabelais and Montaigne. Chronology and short bibliography.
The Cambridge companion to medieval philosophy /
edited by A.S. McGrade. Cambridge, U.K.; New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2003.
Widener: WID-LC B721 .C34 2003x
Lamont: B721 .C34 2003x
The Cambridge companion to medieval romance
/ edited by Roberta L. Krueger. Cambridge, UK; New York, NY: Cambridge
University Press, 2000.
Widener: WID-LC PN671 .C36 2000
Lamont: PN671 .C36 2000
An overview of the origins of early verse romance in 12th century French and Anglo-Norman courts. Analyzes the evolution of verse and prose romance in France, Germany, England, Italy and Spain throughout the Middle Ages. Chronology and bibliography.
The Cambridge companion to medieval women's writing /
edited by Carolyn Dinshaw and David Wallace. Cambridge, UK; New York:
Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Widener: WID-LC PN682.W6 C36 2003
Lamont: PN682.W6 C36 2003x
Conley, Tom. The graphic unconscious: the letter of early modern French writing. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Widener: WID-LC PQ239 .C67 1992
(Translated as: L'inconscient graphique: essai sur l'écriture
de la Renaissance (Marot, Ronsard, Rabelais, Montaigne).
Saint-Denis: Presses universitaires de
Vincennes, 2000. Widener: WID-LC PQ239 .C6714 2000x)
Distant voices still heard: contemporary readings of French Renaissance literature / edited by John O'Brien and Malcolm Quainton. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2000.
Widener: WID-LC PQ231 .D57 2000
Intended to introduce readers to "representative interpretations of early-modern French literary culture using the perspective of contemporary literary theory. Contents: The highs and lows of structuralist reading / François Rigolot -- Rabelais' strength and the pitfalls of methodology / Michel Jeanneret -- "Blonde chef, grande conqueste" / Ann Rosalind Jones -- Louise Labé's feminist poetics / Carla Freccero --Reading and writing in the tenth story of the Heptaméron / Floyd Gray -- Fetishism and storytelling in the Nouvelle 57 of Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron / Nancy Frelick -- Creative choreography / Malcolm Quainton -- An overshadowed valediction / Thomas Greene -- "De l'amitié" / Ann Moss -- Montaigne's death sentences / Lawrence Kritzman. Select bibliography.
Lestringant, Frank. Littérature française du XVIe siècle / Frank Lestringant, Josiane Rieu, Alexandre Tarrete. 1. éd. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2000.
Widener: Harvard Depository PQ231 .L47 2000x
Each chapter accompanied by Orientation Bibliographique and Etudes; includes Chronologie, 1483-1630.
Ménager, Daniel. Introduction à la vie littéraire du XVIe siècle. 3. éd., rev. et augm. Paris: Dunod, 1997.
Widener: Harvard Depository PQ231 .M4 1997x
Four sections: (1) L'Ecrivain et son milieu, (2) L'Humanisme et les grands courants de la pensée, (3) Problèmes de la connaissance et de l'action and (4) Formes de la pensée et de l'art. Bibliographie générale and Bibliographie par chapitres.
Morel, Jacques. De Montaigne à Corneille. Nouvelle éd. révisée 1997. Paris: Flammarion, 1997.
Widener: Harvard Depository PQ237 .M77 1997x
Revised paperback edition treating the historical context, the evolution of genres, doctrines and principal writers with separate sections on Garnier, d'Aubigné, Montaigne, Malherbe, d'Urfé, Corneille and Pascal. Chronology and bibliography.
Parmentier, Bérangère. Le siècle des moralistes: de Montaigne à La Bruyère. Paris: Ed. du Seuil, 2000.
Widener: Harvard Depository PQ241 .P376 2000
A study of the principal works of the period, followed by social and literary history. Bibliography and glossary.
Payen, Jean Charles. Le Moyen Age / par Jean Charles Payen; bibliogr. mise à jour par Jean D. Dufournet. Nouv. éd. révisée 1997. Paris: GF Flammarion, 1997.
Widener: WID-LC PQ101 .P39 1997x
Compact literary history accompanied by Dictionnaire des Auteurs et des Oeuvres, Chronologie and Bibliographie.
Précis de littérature française du Moyen Age / sous la direction de Daniel Poirion. 1re éd. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1983.
Widener: WID-LC PQ151 .P7 1983
Précis de littérature française du XVIe siècle: la Renaissance / sous la direction de Robert Aulotte. 1re éd. Paris : Presses universitaires de France, 1991.
Widener: WID-LC PQ231 .P74 1991
Lamont: PQ231 .P74 1991
Précis in this series include Tableau chronologique and bibliographies.
Renaissances européennes et Renaissance française / sous la direction de Gilbert Gadoffre. Montpellier, France: Espaces 34, 1995.
Widener: Harvard Depository CB361 .R462 1995x
Essays on the Renaissance as European phenomenon in three parts: (1) The Italian model and the Renaissance in Europe, (2) Musical humanism and (3) Writers of the Renaissance.
Zink, Michel. Littérature française du Moyen
Age. 2. éd. revue et mise à jour. Paris: Presses
universitaires de France, 2001.
Widener: WID-LC PQ151 .Z53 2001x
Lamont: PQ151 .Z53 2001x
Current literary history with "Orientations bibliographiques générales" and selective editions after each chapter. A chronology completes the volumes.