2010/01/01 by Emma Bérat · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · #Medieval European Literature and History #Medieval Literature and History #Reformation and Early Modern Christianity #Vernacular #Relation (database) #Historiography #Multilingualism #Extant taxon #Reading (process) #Perspective (graphical) #Poetry #Sociology #Literature #Linguistics #Political science #Art #Law #Philosophy #Visual arts
paper · doi:10.1484/j.nml.1.102175
openalex publication_date 2010/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2025/11/06
Through a close examination of the Estoire des Engleis, the earliest extant historiography in French, this essay argues that the gender dynamics, both male and female, of the patronage relation are inseparable from an interplay of diverse cultural, linguistic, and social experiences. This reading draws attention to the various relationships available within the patronage relation and brings a new perspective to the association of women and the Anglo-Norman vernacular. It relates the poem’s pioneering vernacularity and its idiosyncratic structure to the cultural mobility, partly due to intermarriage, of the patron, Constance FitzGilbert, and the clerk, Geoffrey Gaimar.