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The University of Minnesota Press gratefully acknowledges financial assistance provided for the publication of this book by the Office of the Dean of Faculty and the David Bloom and Leslie Chao Fellowship, Dartmouth College.

Portions of chapters 3, 4, and 5 were previously published in “Au commencement était l’île: The Colonial Formation of Joseph Bédier’s Chanson de Roland,” in Postcolonial Approaches to the European Middle Ages: Translating Cultures, ed. Ananya Jahanara Kabir and Deanne M. Williams (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 205–26. Portions of chapter 5 also appeared in “The Noise of Roland,” Exemplaria 16, no. 2 (2004): 277–304. Reprinted with permission.

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Creole Medievalism: Colonial France and Joseph Bédier’s Middle Ages is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.

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