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Miraculous Rhymes - The Writing of Gautier de Coinci (Hardcover)
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Miraculous Rhymes - The Writing of Gautier de Coinci (Hardcover)
Series: Gallica
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The first published general study of an unduly neglected writer
whose stylistic legacy remains unique in the Middle Ages. The
well-connected, northern-French monk and musician Gautier de Coinci
(1177/8-1236) occupies an unassailable position as one of the most
exceptional vernacular writers of the Middle Ages, concerning whom
there is nevertheless nofull length study in English. In a
meticulously planned and supervised collection of miracles of Our
Lady, which survive in a remarkable number of manuscripts, some
beautifully illustrated, Gautier deploys his outstanding talentsas
a composer of songs, an acerbic satirist, an audacious inventor of
rich and equivocal rhymes (of a virtuosity unparalleled before the
"Grands Rhetoriqueurs" on the eve of the Renaissance), a confident
lexical innovator, an exuberant exponent of rhetorical wordplay, an
incisive observer of contemporary society, and a man of profound
personal piety. This study of word-patterning in Gautier seeks to
compensate for the dearth of stylistic studies ofOld French and to
examine in detail the relationship between rhetoric and religion,
"courtoisie" and Mariolatry, aristocratic tastes and the way to
spiritual renewal. Gautier's writing strategy is shown to be a
means to rise beyond secular, aristocratic values by building on
them and transcending them rather than opposing and rejecting them.
TONY HUNT is a Fellow of St Peter's College, Oxford.
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