The Multilingual Muse

In The Late Middle Ages, The Low Countries ?Ruled By The Dukes Of Burgundy And Their Hapsburg Successors ?Boasted ADynamic Literary Culture In Both French And DutchSpeakers Of These Languages Interacted In More Ways Than Might Be ExpectedWriters Shared Topics And Techniques, Works Were Translated, Printers Who Spoke One Language Published Material In The OtherThe Multilingual Muse Brings Together An Unprecedented Community Of Scholars, Both Historians And Literary Specialists, To Chart These InteractionsIt Reveals That Poetry, Far From Resisting Linguistic And Cultural Translation As Is Widely Supposed, Was ADeeply Transcultural Enterprise In The Region.adrian Armstrong Is Centenary Professor Of French At Queen Mary University Of LondonElsa Strietman Is AFellow Emerita Of Murray Edwards College, Cambridge And Was Senior Lecturer In Dutch, University Of Cambridge.
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