Contexts : style and values in medieval art and literature / [Daniel Poirion, Nancy Freeman Regalado, special editors for this issue].

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Poirion, Daniel, Regalado, Nancy Freeman
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c1991.
Subjects:	French literature > To 1500 > History and criticism. Literature, Medieval > Themes, motives. Art, Medieval > Themes, motives.

Table of Contents:

Medieval landscape and the encyclopedic tradition / W. Cahn
The value of verisimilitude in the art of Jan van Eyck / L. Seidel
The image of history in Christine de Pizan's Livre de la Mutacion de Fortune / K. Brownlee
Le Livre des Trois Vertus of Christine de Pizan: Beinecke MS. 427 / E. Hicks
Style and value: from soldier to Pilgrim in the Song of Roland / E. Vance
Representations of time in Ordo representacionis Ade / M. Fassler
King Arthur, his knights, and the French aristocracy in Picardy / S. Hindman
Marie de France's commonplaces / S.G. Nichols
Gothic signs and the surplus: the kiss on the cathedral / M. Camille
Toward an understanding of "Truthfulness" in the French version of the Pratique by Maître Bernard de Gordon / C. Thomasset
Music, text, and social context: reexamining Thirteenth-Century styles / B.J. Evans
Dangerous resemblances: the Romance of the Rose / C. Nouvet
The other-world incarnate: "Chastel Mortel" and "Chastel des Armes" in the Perlesvaus / A. Berthelot
Fullness and emptiness: shortages and storehouses of lyric treasure in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries / J. Cerquiglini-Toulet
The daisy and the laurel: myths of desire and creativity in the poetry of Jean Froissart / S. Huot
From narrative syle to dramatic style in Les Moralités / M. Newels
The time of the plague and the order of writing : Jean le Bel, Froissart, Machaut / M. Zink
Afterword / D. Poirion.

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