Chapter 21. A “postcolonial” approach to medieval Latin literature?

Abstract

The chapter proposes an unconventional approach to the interpretation of medieval and post-medieval Latin textuality as post-colonial literature, in the sense of “expressed in a cultural system that in the post-Roman age is inevitably different from the writer’s native one and in a language other than the mother tongue”. This approach allows a new understanding of medieval Latin literature and early modernity as a secondary system of cultural production and of language as a communication code that can be analyzed with the linguistic tools of SLA.