Medievalism and 'Maniere Gothique' in Enlightenment France.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Book review) From: Medium Aevum | Date: March 22, 2007 | COPYRIGHT 2007 Society for the Study of Mediaeval Languages and Literature. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Medievalism and 'Maniere Gothique' in Enlightenment France, ed. Peter Damian-Grint, Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2006), viii + 400 pp. ISBN 0-729408-79-5. 65.00 [pounds sterling]/100.00 [euro]/$120.00. This beautifully produced volume is a mine of information for anyone interested in medievalia in eighteenth-century France. Some of what appears has a familiar note: most of us will have heard, for instance, of that ardent bibliophile the marquis de Paulmy--but we may not realize that, single-handedly, he popularized the literature of ...