Jane H. M. Taylor is one of the world's foremost scholars of rewriting or réécriture. Her focus has been on literature in medieval and Renaissance France, but

Transforming Tales argues that the study of transformation is crucial for understanding a wide range of canonical work in medieval French literature. From the l

Transforming Tales argues that the study of transformation is crucial for understanding a wide range of canonical work in medieval French literature. From the l

How, when and why did the Middle Ages begin? This reader gathers together a prestigious collection of revisionist thinking on questions of key research in medie

This book explores the appropriation and transformation of classical mythology by French culture from the mid-twelfth century to about 1430. Each of the five ch