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

Jeff Rider

doi:10.18352/relief.886

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

Author(s)

Jeff Rider

DOI:

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

Keywords:

Robert Guiette, medieval scholarship

Abstract

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, “Formal Poetry in France in the Middle Ages” and “The Adventure of Formal Poetry”, in which he presented his ideas about a medieval poetry based on a formal aesthetics.

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Author Biography

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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Published

2014-09-29

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 1 (2014): Speaking of the Medieval Today: French and Francophone Medievalisms

Section

Articles - thematic dossier

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How to Cite

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), pp. 75–77. doi:10.18352/relief.886.