Multilingualism and Mother Tongue in Medieval French, Occitan and Catalan Narratives

This monograph examines the gap between multilingualism and the idea of a mother tongue in a series of narrative texts of the 13th to the 15th centuries. The texts include hybrid idioms mixing literary languages (Occitan, Catalan, French and Veneto) and genres (prose, verse and prosimetrum). A significant number of these narratives tell the tale now known as 'Sleeping Beauty' and address gendered questions of consent and autonomy.1st ed