Knowing Poetry : Verse in Medieval France from the Rose to the Rhétoriqueurs.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (263 pages)
Intro -- Knowing Poetry -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Situating Knowledge -- 1. Persistent Presence: Verse after Prose -- 2. Poetry and History -- 3. Poetry and Thought -- Part II. Transmitting and Shaping Knowledge -- 4. Knowing the World in Verse Encyclopedias and Encyclopedic Verse -- 5. Knowledge and the Practice of Poetry -- 6. Textual Communities: Poetry and the Social Construction of Knowledge -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
Exploring how verse was used to transmit and shape philosophical, historical, and other forms of knowledge in France in the later Middle Ages.
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French poetry -- To 1500 -- History and criticism. Knowledge, Theory of, in literature.