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Image and imagination : picturing the Old French epic / Sandra Malicote.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Malicote, Sandra.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chansons de geste--History and criticism.
- Chansons de geste.
- Epic poetry, French--History and criticism.
- Epic poetry, French.
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval--France.
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (201 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : University Press of America, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-47995-4
- 9786612479953
- 0-7618-4833-9
- OCLC:
- 663960144
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