A History of French Literature
Subtitle: From Chanson De Geste to Cinema
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: October 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 640
ISBN-13: 9781405117364
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Collections; French; Literature: Classics; European - French; FRENCH LITERATURE_HISTORY AND CRITICISM; Literary Criticism & Collections / French; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: The Middle Ages lasted a thousand years, from the break-up of the Roman Empire in the fifth century to the end of the fifteenth, when there was an awareness that a 'dark time' (Rabelais dismissively called it 'gothic') separated the present from the classical world.