Edmond Faral (18 March 1882 – 8 February 1958) was an Algerian-born French medievalist. He became in 1924 Professor of

Latin literature Latin literature includes the essays, histories, poems, plays, and other writings written in the Latin language. The beginning of formal Latin literature dates to 240 BC, when the first stage play in Latin was performed in Rome. Latin literature ...

at the

Collège de France The Collège de France (), formerly known as the ''Collège Royal'' or as the ''Collège impérial'' founded in 1530 by François I, is a higher education and research establishment ('' grand établissement'') in France. It is located in Paris n ...

. He wrote his dissertation on the

jongleur A minstrel was an entertainer, initially in medieval Europe. It originally described any type of entertainer such as a musician, juggler, acrobat, singer or fool; later, from the sixteenth century, it came to mean a specialist entertainer ...

s, and E. R. Curtius states that he was the first to recognize an influence of the medieval Latin

poetics Poetics is the theory of structure, form, and discourse within literature, and, in particular, within poetry. History The term ''poetics'' derives from the Ancient Greek ποιητικός ''poietikos'' "pertaining to poetry"; also "creative" an ...

and

rhetoric Rhetoric () is the art of persuasion, which along with grammar and logic (or dialectic), is one of the three ancient arts of discourse. Rhetoric aims to study the techniques writers or speakers utilize to inform, persuade, or motivate par ...

Old French Old French (, , ; Modern French: ) was the language spoken in most of the northern half of France from approximately the 8th to the 14th centuries. Rather than a unified language, Old French was a linkage of Romance dialects, mutually intel ...

poetry.European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages, p. 384 of the 1953 English translation. He was appointed to the

Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres The Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres () is a French learned society devoted to history, founded in February 1663 as one of the five academies of the Institut de France. The academy's scope was the study of ancient inscriptions (epigr ...

in 1936.

Works

*''Les Jongleurs en France au Moyen-Âge'' (1910) *''Mimes français du XIIIe siècle'' (1910) *''Courtois d'Arras : jeu du XIII^e siècle'' (1911) *''Recherches sur les Sources Latines des Contes et Romans Courtois du Moyen-Âge'' (1913) *''Gautier D'aupais. Poème Courtois du XIIIème siècle'' (1919) *''Le Roman de Troie en prose'' (1922) editor with L. Constans *''La légende arthurienne. Études et documents. Les plus anciens textes'' (1929) *''La Chanson de Roland'' (1932) *''Les Arts poétiques du XIIe et du XIIIe siècle'' *''Vie quotidienne au temps de Saint Louis'' (1938) *''Textes relatifs à la civilisation matérielle et morale des temps modernes'' (1938) *''Petite grammaire de l'ancien français, XIIe-XIIIe siècles'' (1941) *''Onze poèmes de

Rutebeuf Rutebeuf (or Rustebuef) (fl. 1245 – 1285) was a French trouvère (poet-composers who worked in France's northern dialects). Early life He was born in the first half of the 13th century, possibly in Champagne (he describes conflicts in Troy ...

concernant la croisad''e (1946) editor with J. Bastin *'' De Babione'' (Poème comique du XIIème siècle) (1948) *''Jean Buridan. Notes sur les manuscrits, les éditions et le contenu de ses ouvrages'', Archives d'Histoire Doctrinale et Littéraire du Moyen-Âge 15: 1-53 (1946) *''Jean Buridan: Maître és arts de l'Université de Paris'', Histoire Littéraire de la France 28 (1949) *''Guillaume de Digulleville, moine de Châalis'' (1952) *''Les arts poétiques du XIIème et du XIII siècles. Recherches et documents sur la technique littéraire du Moyen Age'' (1958) *''Oeuvres complètes de Rutebeuf'' (1959–60)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Faral, Edmond 1882 births 1958 deaths Book editors Collège de France faculty French literary historians Literary scholars Algerian medievalists French medievalists Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres Scholars of Latin literature Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America Migrants from French Algeria to France