Introduction to Robert Guiette : “Formal Poetry in France in the Middle Ages” and “The Adventure of Formal Poetry”

Auteurs

  • Jeff Rider

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.18352/relief.886

Mots-clés :

Robert Guiette, medieval scholarship

Résumé

This introduction offers a brief overview of the life and work of the early twentieth-century Flemish medieval studies scholar Robert Guiette, and presents two of his most influential pieces, “L’aventure de la poésie formelle”, and “La poésie formelle en France au Moyen Age”, in which he presented his ideas about a medieval poetry based on a formal esthetic.

Biographie de l'auteur

  • Jeff Rider

    Jeff Rider is Professor of Romance Languages, and Literatures and Medieval Studies at Wesleyan University. His recent publications include an edition of Walter of Thérouanne’s “Vita Karoli comitis Flandrię” et “Vita domni Ioannis Morinensis episcopi”(2006); an edition and translation of the thirteenth-century Lai du conseil, with Brinduşa Grigoriu and Catharina Peersman; a translation of Galbert of Bruges’s The Murder, Betrayal, and Assassination of the Glorious Count Charles of Flanders ; a volume co-edited with Alan Murray on Galbert of Bruges and the Historiography of Medieval Flanders (2009); a volume co-edited with Benoît Tock on Le Diocèse de Thérouanne au Moyen Age (2010); and a volume co-edited with Jamie Friedman on The Inner Life of Women in Medieval Romance Literature: Grief, Guilt and Hypocrisy (2011).

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Publiée

29-09-2014

Comment citer

Rider, J. (2014) « Introduction to Robert Guiette : “Formal Poetry in France in the Middle Ages” and “The Adventure of Formal Poetry” », RELIEF - REVUE ÉLECTRONIQUE DE LITTÉRATURE FRANÇAISE, 8(1), p. 75–77. doi:10.18352/relief.886.