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As the visual representation of an essentially oral text, Sylvia Huot points out, the medieval illuminated manuscript has a theatrical, performative quality. She perceives the tension between implied oral performance and real visual artifact as a fundamental aspect of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century poetics. In this generously illustrated volume, Huot examines manuscript texts both from the performance-oriented lyric tradition of chanson courtoise, or courtly love lyric, and from the self-con

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Author

Sylvia Jean Huot

Publisher

Ithaca [N.Y.]: Cornell University Press

Published

1987

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801419225

Category

literary studies

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Romance, Literary Criticism

Updated

2026-03-25