Resumen de Témoignages écrits en langue vulgaire dans la Vallée d’Aoste du bas Moyen Âge
Castles of the Aosta Valley preserve the most ancient proofs of the vernacular language practice. We are dealing with marked inscriptions on the walls of these dwellings: poetry or prose, locally originated or often “imported”, that bear witness to the diffusion in the Aosta Valley of literary genres that belong to the French culture.
Also, the inventories of the castles reveal the presence of French literature works, such as the “mystères”, the chivalric romances and the courtly literature.
The phenomenon of local variants, usually written by anonymous authors and inspired by works of French origin, is widespread: a fifteenth-century manuscript, conserved at Aosta Cathedral Archives, is a significant example.
Chronique de la Maison de Challant by Pierre du Bois is the first historical work written in French by a local author and it is dated from the second half of the fifteenth-century.
