Miraculous Rhymes

Miraculous Rhymes

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Hunt, Tony
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
EAN: 9781846155741
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The first published general study of an unduly neglected writer whose stylistic legacy remains unique in the Middle Ages.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 nofull 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 talentsas a composer of songs, an acerbic satirist, an audacious inventor of rich and equivocal rhymes (of a virtuosity unparalleled before the &quote;Grands Rhetoriqueurs&quote; 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 ofOld French and to examine in detail the relationship between rhetoric and religion, &quote;courtoisie&quote; 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.
EAN 9781846155741
ISBN 1846155746
Binding Ebook
Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Publication date September 19, 2007
Pages 222
Language English
Country Uruguay
Authors Hunt, Tony
Series Gallica
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