Jean de Joinville | Further Reading
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Bement, Newton S. “Linguistic Value of the Michel Edition of Joinville's Historie de Saint Louis.” The Romantic Review XXXVIII, No. 3 (October 1947): 193-202.
Examines the Michel edition of Joinville's Historie de Saint Louis and argues that Joinville's only contributions to the original dictated text were the vocabulary and construction or word order. Bement concludes that the Michel edition is valuable in that its language represents a synthesis between late Old French and early Middle French.
Foulet, Alfred. “The Archetype of Joinville's Vie de Saint Louis.” Modern Language Quarterly 6, No. 1 (March 1945): 77-81.
Explains that the original dictation and presentation copy of the Vie de Saint Louis have not survived and questions the conclusions of Gaston Paris, who maintains that the five extant manuscripts all derive from a single archetype, an archetype that...
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