From the Middle Ages onward, writers, artists, and composers have evoked canonical works from the distant or more recent past, in some cases in order to demonstrate respect for tradition, in others merely to enrich their own productions. But whatever their reasons, they all, explainsCitation, Intertextuality, and Memory in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, manipulated the memory of their readers. The essays in this multidisciplinary volume offer a wide array of scholarship on the role of memory and citation in the cultural production of the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance, examining both renowned and less well-known works from France, England, and Italy.
Yolanda Plumleyis director of the Center for Medieval Studies at the University of Exeter and a reader in medieval music and culture.Guiliano Di Baccois a research fellow in medieval studies at the University of Exeter.Steffano Jossais a lecturer in Italian at Royal Holloway, University of London.
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Preface
Yolanda Plumley, Giuliano Di Bacco and Stefano Jossa
Introduction
Lina Bolzoni
1. Translation and Parody: Responses to Machaut’sLay de confort
Benjamin Albritton
2.Folie couvient avoir:Citation and Transformation in Machaut’s Musical Works—Gender Change and Transgression
Jacques Boogaart
3. The Construction of Textual Form: Cross-Lingual Citation in the Medieval Insular Lyric
Ardis Butterfield
4. Examples, References and Quotations in Sixteenth-Century Medical Texts
Monica Calabritto
5.AuctoresandAuctoritasin the Preface to Angelo Poliziano’sMiscellaneorum centuria prima
Alessandro Daneloni
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