author
maistre de Cambray Fouquart
Known only through a late medieval collaboration, this elusive writer is linked to Les Évangiles des quenouilles, a lively collection of women’s sayings, beliefs, and household lore from fifteenth-century France.
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Les évangiles des quenouilles
by maistre de Cambray Fouquart, Antoine Duval, active 14th century d'Arras Jean
About the author
Very little is firmly known about this author as an individual. Reliable catalog and reference sources identify Fouquart de Cambray as one of the names attached to Les Évangiles des quenouilles, a late medieval French work also associated with Antoine Duval and Jean d’Arras.
The book is generally described as a collection of popular beliefs and storytelling framed around women gathered at their spinning work. First published in Bruges in 1480, it has lasting value not just as literature, but also as a glimpse of everyday speech, humor, and folklore in the late Middle Ages.
Because biographical evidence is so thin, Fouquart de Cambray is best understood through this single surviving attribution. That air of mystery is part of the appeal: the name opens onto a vivid, playful text that preserves voices and customs rarely captured so directly in medieval writing.