Gaunt, Simon, 1959-2021

Simon Gaunt was a prolific author and professor of Medieval French and Occitan studies at Cambridge and King’s College London. He published outstanding studies on the troubadours, on death and sacrifice in medieval literature, on Marco Polo, on travel and identity, on French literary culture outside France, and on French as a supralocal language at the base of European identity. He established a reputation as being one of the finest revisionary critics of medieval literature, philologists, troubadour scholars, digital humanists, critical theorists, interdisciplinary and multilingual scholars, and queer studies experts of his generation.

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