Languages in conflict in Toulouse: las leys d'Amors. The Modern Language Review | April 1, 2008| | COPYRIGHT 2008 Modern Humanities Research Association. 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. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

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The poetry competition founded in Toulouse in 1323 is a well-known instance of cultural resistance, thanks to its promotion and preservation of poetry in Occitan shortly after the county of Toulouse had become part of the French crown. This article re-examines the Leys d'Amors, the treatise produced in two redactions by the Consistory in the mid-fourteenth century, in order to establish whether Occitan is treated as a civic 'mother tongue', or if instead the text reveals an approach to language acquisition modelled on Latin treatises familiar to the ...

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