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 literatur ...

at the

Collège de France The (), formerly known as the or as the ''Collège impérial'' founded in 1530 by François I, is a higher education and research establishment () in France. It is located in Paris near La Sorbonne. The has been considered to be France's most ...

. He wrote his dissertation on the

jongleur A minstrel was an entertainer, initially in medieval Europe. The term 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 enterta ...

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

poetics Poetics is the study or theory of poetry, specifically the study or theory of device, structure, form, type, and effect with regards to poetry, though usage of the term can also refer to literature broadly. Poetics is distinguished from hermeneu ...

and

rhetoric Rhetoric is the art of persuasion. It is one of the three ancient arts of discourse ( trivium) along with grammar and logic/ dialectic. As an academic discipline within the humanities, rhetoric aims to study the techniques that speakers or w ...

Old French Old French (, , ; ) was the language spoken in most of the northern half of France approximately between the late 8th [2-4; we might wonder whether there's a point at which it's appropriate to talk of the beginnings of French, that is, when it wa ...

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 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 Rustebeuf) (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 Troyes i ...

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 Academic staff of the Collège de France French literary historians French 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 Emigrants from French Algeria to France