Machaut's legacy : the judgment poetry tradition in the later middle ages and beyond / edited by R. Barton Palmer and Burt Kimmelman. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, (c)2017. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographies and index.

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

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.



9780813052779


Guillaume, de Machaut, approximately 1300-1377 --Criticism and interpretation.


Narrative poetry, French--History and criticism.
Middle Ages--Poetry.


Electronic Books.

PQ1483 / .M334 2017