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Note publique d'information : Senshu University has hosted many international conferences on medieval English literature
– primarily on Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland – as well as in the related fields
of Old Germanic, medieval French and Renaissance Italian literature. These international
collaborations inform and contribute to the present volume, which addresses the heritage
bequeathed to medieval English language and literature by the classical world. This
volume explores the development of medieval English literature in light of contact
with Germanic and Old Norse cultures, on the one hand, and Romance languages, on the
other. The book includes a comparative study of Beowulf in the Germanic context, discusses
aspects of Piers Plowman and its tradition, and offers philological approaches to
Chaucer (especially his Troilus and Criseyde). The articles assembled here collectively
suggest how the torches of classical learning were carried from continental Europe
to illuminate the pages of medieval English literature