| Description |
1 online resource (212 pages) |
| Series |
Gallica ; v. 8 |
|
Gallica (Woodbridge (Suffolk, England)) ; v. 8.
|
| Contents |
PREFACE; ABBREVIATIONS; PART I: The Writer and his Writing; Introduction; 1. The Design of the 'grant livre'; 2. Bookends; PART II: The Web of Words; 3. Gautier and Music; 4. The Play of Words; 5. 'Compasser les rimes'; 6. Conclusion; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX OF RHETORICAL TERMS; GENERAL INDEX |
| Summary |
The well-connected, northern-French monk and musician Gautier de Coinci (1177/8-1236) occupies an unassailable position as one of the most exceptional vernacular writers of the Middle Ages, concerning whom there is nevertheless no full length study in English. In a meticulously planned and supervised collection of miracles of Our Lady, which survive in a remarkable number of manuscripts, some beautifully illustrated, Gautier deploys his outstanding talents as a composer of songs, an acerbic satirist, an audacious inventor of rich and equivocal rhymes (of a virtuosity unparalleled before the "Grands Rhetoriqueurs" on the eve of the Renaissance), a confident lexical innovator, an exuberant exponent of rhetorical wordplay, an incisive observer of contemporary society, and a man of profound personal piety. This study of word-patterning in Gautier seeks to compensate for the dearth of stylistic studies of Old French and to examine in detail the relationship between rhetoric and religion, "courtoisie" and Mariolatry, aristocratic tastes and the way to spiritual renewal. Gautier's writing strategy is shown to be a means to rise beyond secular, aristocratic values by building on them and transcending them rather than opposing and rejecting them. TONY HUNT is a Fellow of St Peter's College, Oxford |
| Notes |
Includes quotations in Old French |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-207) and indexes |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
|
In English with Old French |
|
Print version record |
|
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Gautier, de Coinci, 1177?-1236 -- Criticism and interpretation
|
|
Gautier, de Coinci, 1177?-1236. Miracles Nostre Dame.
|
|
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- In literature
|
| SUBJECT |
Gautier, de Coinci, 1177?-1236 fast |
|
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint fast |
|
Miracles Nostre Dame (Gautier, de Coinci) fast |
| Subject |
POETRY -- Continental European.
|
|
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval.
|
|
Literature
|
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| ISBN |
9781846155741 |
|
1846155746 |
|
