...author's edition of the works of Henri d'Andeli (see MAE, 75 (2004), 164f.), but two developments in the intervening period--the attribution of the Lai d'Aristote to Henri de Valenciennes and the recognition of the complex network of relationships in which d'Andeli's writing is situated--have led to a more ambitious study of the emergence of vernacular clerical writing in Paris in the thirteenth century. Henri d'Andeli and the Lai d'Aristote remain central to the investigation, but are joined by the dits of Rutebeuf and a number of anonymous authors. By situating these works within a broad literary history which extends from earlier Latin clerical writing, through the vernacular epic and romance, as far as Dante, Corbellari seeks to highlight the distinctive features of a vernacular clerical poetics which offers important testimony to the range of socio-cultural changes from...

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