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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456469403321

Autore

Malicote Sandra

Titolo

Image and imagination [[electronic resource] ] : picturing the Old French epic / / Sandra Malicote

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, : University Press of America, c2010

ISBN

1-282-47995-4

9786612479953

0-7618-4833-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Disciplina

840.1

841.0320901

Soggetti

Chansons de geste - History and criticism

Epic poetry, French - History and criticism

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval - France

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One. Aiol, Illumination and the Poetics of the Epic; Chapter Two. The Illuminated Geste de Saint Gille, Pictor and the Past; Chapter Three. Parody, Illumination and Genre Renewal; Chapter Four. Roman, Estoire, Exemplum: Illumination of Epic Compilation; Chapter Five. Illuminating the Old French Epic: Two Late Thirteenth-Century Franco-Flemish Examples; Figures; Selected Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This interdisciplinary study of word and image in the Old French chanson de geste examines the relationship between illumination and epic narrative constructed by the medieval understanding of the imagination. The study focuses on the epic cycle 'the geste of Saint Gille,' including Aiol and Elie de Saint Gille.