EMAF 15-16 (Éditer le Moyen-Âge français aux XVe-XVIe siècles)

The database EMAF 15-16, ‟Editing the French Middle Ages in the 15th-16th Centuries“, offers a Repertoire of medieval texts in French prose that were printed in the late 15th and 16th Centuries. EMAF 15-16 aims to be a useful tool for investigating the ways in which medieval literature was received in early printing. This material is not only an invitation to reconsider the complexity of the transition between the ‘Middle Ages’ and the ‘Renaissance’ in France in the first decades of the appearance of printing; it also represents the corpus of texts from which the idea of the Middle Ages germinated in modern Europe. The specificity of EMAF 15-16 is to place the first printed books in relation to the textual tradition of the works they transmit. Therefore, EMAF 15-16 proposes to offer both an accurate description of the editio princeps (see the list of Imprimés anciens) with particular attention also to the previous manuscript tradition, and an overview of the entire printed tradition in the 15th-16th centuries for each work (see the list of Œuvres) with related bibliography.

La base digitale EMAF 15-16 recensisce opere medievali in lingua francese passate alla stampa alla fine del Quattrocento e nel Cinquecento. Di ciascuna si presenta la tradizione a stampa e si offre una descrizione dettagliata dell’‘editio princeps’. EMAF 15-16 vuole essere uno strumento utile per indagare le modalità della ricezione della letteratura medievale nelle prime stampe. Questo materiale non è soltanto un invito a riconsiderare la complessità della transizione tra ‘Medioevo’ e ‘Rinascimento’ in Francia, nei primi decenni dell’apparizione della stampa ; rappresenta anche il corpus di testi dal quale nascerà l’immaginario medievale dell’Europa moderna.