Poetry and Music in Medieval France: From Jean Renart to Guillaume de Machaut, by Ardis Butterfield

• Maureen Boulton ^[1]
  1. [1] professor of French at the University of Notre Dame who studies medieval French literature, particularly the relation between narrative and lyric poetry and also religious literature.
• Localización: Romance philology, ISSN 0035-8002, Vol. 59, Nº. 1, 2005, págs. 143-149
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Although the title announces the vast topic of poetry and music in medieval France, Ardis Butterfield states that she has concentrated principally on "two broad areas: the written contexts for secular song in the thirteenth century, and the nature of change in song and narrative between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The actual focus of the book is narrower still, since it is concerned primarity with refrains, from their first appearance in Jean Renart's "Roman de la Rose" (commonly called Guillaume de Dole) to their dominance of lyric poetry in the "formes fixes" of the fourteenth century. Some of the works discussed, and particularly those by the authors who define the temporal limits of this study, have received a good deal attention in recent years.