From Song to Book : The Poetics of Writing in Old French Lyric and Lyrical Narrative Poetry /

As the visual representation of an essentially oral text, Sylvia Huot points out, the medieval illuminated manuscript has a theatrical, performative quality. She perceives the tension between implied oral performance and real visual artifact as a fundamental aspect of thirteenth- and fourteenth-cent...

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Main Author: Huot, Sylvia
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1987.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments / Huot, Sylvia
  • Introduction
  • Part One: On the Nature of the Book in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
  • Part Two: Lyricism and the Book in the Thirteenth Century
  • Part Three: Lyricism and the Book in the Fourteenth Century
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix A: The Rubrication of Guillaume de Lorris in MS Bibl. Nat. fr. 378
  • Appendix B: Table of Miniatures in Selected Texts by Machaut, MSS Bibl. Nat. fr. 1584 and 1586
  • Appendix C : Excerpt from an Unedited Volume of Le Roman de Perceforest, MS Bibl. Nat. fr. 346
  • Bibliography of Works Cited
  • Index