French Literature Reviews - 2026

C. Fauriel. Histoire de la poésie provençale
Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Claude Fauriel. Histoire de la poésie provençale (3 vols.)

Paris, Classiques Garnier, coll. "Recherches littéraires médiévales", series "Magistralia. Leçons et lectures", 2011

• EAN13: 9782812403378
• 1596 pages
• 49€

Publisher's overview:

Claude Fauriel's lecture course on Provençal poetry, as the first professor of foreign literature at the Sorbonne, marks a major milestone in the history of historical thought and historicism in particular. It also offers a 19^th-century perspective on Occitan literature that reflects the spirit of the age. This edition reprints the course as it was published posthumously, preceded by an introduction that addresses all key issues and followed by a comprehensive bibliography on the subject.

Claude Fauriel’s course on the poetry of Provence represents a milestone in the history of historical thought and especially in that of historicism.

Claude Fauriel served as the first professor of foreign literature at the Sorbonne. His scholarly production emerged during a period of nineteenth-century engagement with regional idioms, vernacular heritages, and the formation of national literatures across Europe. Within medieval studies and nineteenth-century intellectual history, lecture courses played a role in transmitting philological discoveries to wider academic audiences. This modern edition preserves the text of the original posthumous publication while providing supplementary critical apparatus to assist researchers navigating the material.

The volumes present Fauriel's nineteenth-century perspective on Occitan literature alongside a comprehensive bibliography and an introductory essay addressing key issues surrounding the text. Readers interested in the history of historicism and the institutional development of medieval literary studies may find this scholarly reissue relevant to their investigations.