Poetry, Knowledge and Community in Late Medieval France
Author(s): Rebecca Dixon (Author), Finn E. Sinclair (Author), Adrian Armstron Sylvia Huot And (Author)
Publisher: D. S. Brewer
Publication Date: 20 Nov. 2008
Language: English
Print length: 272 pages
ISBN-10: 1843841770
ISBN-13: 9781843841777
Book Description
The role of poetry in the transmission and shaping of knowledge in late medieval France. Covering the period from the late thirteenth to the early sixteenth century, Poetry, Knowledge, and Community examines the role of poetry in French culture in transmitting and shaping knowledge. The volume reveals the interplay between poet, text, and audience, and explores the key dynamics of later medieval French poetry and of the communities in which it was produced. Essays in both English and French are organised into three inter-related sections, “Learned Poetry/ Poetry and Learning”, “Poetry or Prose?”, and “Poetic Communities”, and address both canonical and less well-known French and Occitan verse literature, together with a wide range of complementary subjectareas. The international cast of contributors to the volume includes many of the best-known scholars in the field: the introductory essay is by Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet (Université de Paris IV, Sorbonne), and keynote essays are provided by David F. Hult (University of California, Berkeley), Michel Zink (Collège de France), and Nancy Freeman Regalado (New York University). Edited by REBECCA DIXON (University of Manchester) and FINN E. SINCLAIR (University of Cambridge), with Adrian Armstrong (University of Manchester), Sylvia Huot (University of Cambridge), and Sarah Kay (University of Princeton). CONTRIBUTORS: Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Mishtooni Bose, Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, Rebecca Dixon, Thelma Fenster, Denis Hüe, David Hult, Stephanie Kamath, Deborah McGrady, Amandine Mussou, Nancy Freeman Regalado, Jennifer Saltzstein, Finn E. Sinclair, Lori J. Walters, David Wrisley, Michel Zink
Editorial Reviews
Review
The thirteen essays in this volume provide a coherent and interesting overview of the rôle of knowledge and community in late medieval French poetic production, and will be welcomed by all working in the field as a valuable contribution to this growing area of scholarship. –OENACH 1.1, November 2009
Thirteen essays, all lucidly written (ten in English, three in French), are characterised by acute textual analysis, sensitive consideration of literary form, and perspicacious examination of the material context of manuscript production and transmission. –FRENCH STUDIES, vol. 64, no. 40, Jan 2010
This volume will no doubt continue to help revitalize interest in a period that has sometimes been seen as the neglected stepsister of the high Middle Ages and has now begun to take its rightful place in the history of French letters. –SPECULUM, January 2010
Taken as a whole, this volume supplies an assortment of knowledgeable studies, and several chapters are strongly innovative. –H-FRANCE REVIEW, vol. 10, no. 34, March 2010
A coherent and innovative collection. — MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW
About the Author
DAVID F. HULT is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of French at the University of California, Berkeley.
DEBORAH McGRADY is Professor of French at the University of Virginia and Director of the Medieval Studies Program.
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