Research Catalog

Title

Machaut's legacy : the judgment poetry tradition in the later middle ages and beyond / edited by R. Barton Palmer and Burt Kimmelman.

Publication

• Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2017]
• ©2017

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Details

Additional Authors

• Palmer, R. Barton, 1946-
• Kimmelman, Burt

Description

xxvii, 308 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Machaut's Legacy offers the first comprehensive discussion of the artistic legacy of Guillaume de Machaut, the most important poet and musician of the later Middle Ages, with the book offering twelve chapters detailing his influence on and connection to writers from Geoffrey Chaucer to Philip Roth.

Subjects

• Guillaume, de Machaut, approximately 1300-1377
• Middle Ages > Poetry
• Guillaume, de Machaut, approximately 1300-1377 > Criticism and interpretation
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Poetry
• Narrative poetry, French > History and criticism

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Poetry.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Preface: Machaut and the late medieval dit / R. Barton Palmer -- Introduction / Burt Kimmelman -- Part I. Political and literary authorities: the place of judgment -- Judgment at court: open thought and prudent dissimulation in the anonymous Livre du Tresor Amoureux / Douglas Kelly -- "Le contraire effacies": challenging literary and political authority in Guillaume de Machaut, Alain Chartier, and medieval French debate poetry / Emma Cayley -- Courting controversy? Poetic manipulations of politics in the mid-fifteenth century / Helen Swift -- Part II. Adaptations and appropriations -- The Machaut map: Geoffrey Chaucer, Christine de Pizan, the diegetic self, and pre-renaissance individualism in Northern Europe / Burt Kimmelman -- True colors: the significance of Machaut's and Chaucer's use of blue to represent fidelity / Elizaveta Strakhov -- The judge as reader, the reader as judge: literary and legal judgment in Dante, Machaut, and Gower / Rosemarie McGerr -- Bohemian Gower: Confessio Amantis, Queen Anne, and Machaut's judgment poems / Linda Burke -- Polarized debates, ambivalent judgments: the jugement behaigne and the confessio amantis / Lewis Beer -- Part III. Lasting influence -- Proust and the amorous fountain: secret architecture or suppressed source? / Camille Naish -- Authorial second lives: Machaut, Chaucer, and Philip Roth / R. Barton Palmer.

Call Number

JFE 17-12236

ISBN

• 9780813062419
• 0813062411

LCCN

2017030434

OCLC

982651137

Title

Machaut's legacy : the judgment poetry tradition in the later middle ages and beyond / edited by R. Barton Palmer and Burt Kimmelman.

Publisher

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2017]

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Palmer, R. Barton, 1946- editor.

Kimmelman, Burt, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 17-12236