The manuscript reception of Jean Molinet's Trosne d'Honneur.(essay)(Critical essay)

From: Medium Aevum | Date: September 22, 2005| Author: Armstrong, Adrian | Copyright information

There is nothing radical about the claim that late medieval poetry in France, as elsewhere in western Europe, is closely bound up with knowledge. It is, after all, evident that a great deal of the vernacular verse composed between, say, 1220 and 1530 is in some sense didactic. Indeed, various global assessments of late medieval poetics, from Glending Olson's image of a recreationally therapeutic literature to Judson Allen's notion of an 'ethical poetic', have amounted to saying jus...

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