Contexts : style and values in medieval art and literature

Weitere Verfasser: Poirion, Daniel
Regalado, Nancy Freeman
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: New Haven : Yale University Pr., 1991.
Umfang/Format: 290 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Yale French studies
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Part 1 Images, text and context: medieval landscape and the encyclopaedic tradition, Walter Cahn; the value of verisimilitude in the art of Jan van Eyck, Linda Seidel; the image of history in Christine de Pizan's "Livre de la Mutacion de Fortune", Kevin Brownlee; "Le Livre des Trois Virtus" of Christine de Pizan - Beinecke MS. 427, Eric Hicks. Part 2 Romanesque Middle Ages?: style and value - from soldier to pilgrim in the "Song of Roland", Eugene Vance; representations of time in "Ordo Represenacionis Adc", Margot Fassler; King Arthur, his knights and the French aristocracy in Picardy, Sandra Hindman; Marie de France's commonplaces, Stephen G. Nichols. Part 3 Gothic Middle Ages?: gothic signs and the surplus - the kiss on the cathedral, Michael Camille; toward an understanding of "Truth" in the French version of the "Pratique" by Maitre Bernard de Gordon, Claude Thomasset; music, text and social context - re-examining 13th century styles, Beverley J. Evans; dangerous resemblances - the "Romance of the Rose", Claire Nouvet; the other world incarnate - "Chastel Mortel" and "Chastel des Armes" in the "Perlesvaus", Anne Berthelot. Part 4 Baroque Middle Ages?: fullness and emptiness - shortages and storehouses of lyric treasure in the 14th and 15th centuries, Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet; the daisy and the laurel - myths of desire and creativity in the poetry of Jean Froissart, Sylvia Huot; from narrative style dramatic style in "Les Moralities", Margarete Newels; the time of the plague and the order of writing - Jean le Bel, Froissard, Machaut, Michel Zink.