Gerard
J. Brault is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor
Emeritus of French and Medieval Studies and Fellow Emeritus of the
Institute for the Arts and Humanities at The Pennsylvania State
University. He began his research for this landmark edition
in 1968 while a Guggenheim Fellow and Fulbright-Hays Research Scholar
in Strasbourg, France. In 1978, the year it appeared, this
work was selected by Choice, The Journal of the Association of College
and Research Librarians as an Outstanding Academic Book. In
1985, Professor Brault was elected International President of the
Société Rencesvals (pour l'étude des épopées
romanes), the only American ever to serve in that office.
The author of seven other books and more than a hundred articles,
he is also internationally known for his research in medieval heraldry
and in French-Canadian language and culture.
A graduate
of Assumption College (Worcester, MA), which awarded him an honorary
Doctor of Letters degree in 1976, Professor Brault received his
M.A. at Laval University and his Ph.D. in Romance Languages at the
University of Pennsylvania. He is a Fellow of the Medieval
Academy of America, the Heraldy Society of London, and the Académie
Internationale d'Héraldique. In 1981, he was awarded
the Ordre National du Mérite by the Government of France
and, in 1987, the Ordre des Francophones d'Amérique by the
Government of Quebec. In 1998, colleagues and students published Echoes of the Epic: Studies in Honor of Gerard J. Brault. |
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