A Companion to Alain Chartier (c. 1385-1430): Father of French Eloquence -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- PART 1: Chartier in His Cultural, Literary, and Material Context -- 1: Alain Chartier: A Historical and Biographical Overview -- 2: Alain Chartier's Singularity, or How Sources Make an Author -- 3: The Bilingual Chartier: Authorial Duality and Identity in the French and Latin OEuvre of Alain Chartier -- 4: The Illuminated Manuscripts of the Works of Alain Chartier -- PART 2: Approaches to Chartier -- 5: Performance and Polemic: Gender and Emotion in the Works of Alain Chartier -- 6: Alain Chartier and Chivalry: Debating Knighthood in the Context of the Hundred Years War -- 7: Alain Chartier, Political Writer -- PART 3: Textual Communities -- 8: "Que tous se rallïent": Alain Chartier, Pierre de Nesson, and the Poetics of Peace -- 9: A Community of Readers: The Quarrel of the Belle Dame sans mercy -- 10: Alain Chartier: The Manuscript and Print Tradition -- PART 4: Charterian Influence -- 11: Alain Chartier and Medieval Catalan Literature -- 12: Chartier's European Influence -- 13: Alain Chartier and the Rhétoriqueurs -- 14: A Good Carter as Guide: Imitating Alain Chartier (15th Century-Early 17th Century) Florence Bouchet -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.