Format:
1 Online-Ressource (336 pages)
ISBN:
9781487518448
Content:
The Writer's Gift or the Patron's Pleasure? argues that the French King Charles V's unprecedented enthusiasm for the literary commission triggered a crucial, multi-generational debate within the book community about how a work's status as solicited or unsolicited affected its value and purpose
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Rethinking Literary Patronage in a Medieval Context -- Chapter One: King Charles V's Sapientia Project: From the Construction of the Louvre Library to the Books He Commissioned -- Chapter Two: The Writer's Work: Translating Charles V's Literary Clientelism into Learned Terms -- Chapter Three: Guillaume de Machaut's Fictions of Engagement -- Chapter Four: Eustache Deschamps on the Duties and Dues of Poetry -- Chapter Five: The Pursuit of Patronage: From Christine de Pizan's Troubled Dealings with Louis of Orléans to Marketing Nostalgia -- Chapter Six: The Curse of the Commission: Christine de Pizan on Sacrificing Charles V's Biography -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781487503659
Additional Edition:
Print version McGrady, Deborah The Writer's Gift or the Patron's Pleasure? : The Literary Economy in Late Medieval France Toronto : University of Toronto Press,c2019 ISBN 9781487503659
Language:
English
