Sandra Malicote

Image and Imagination

Picturing the Old French Epic

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This interdisciplinary study of word and image in the Old French chanson de geste examines the relationship between illumination and epic narrative constructed by the medieval understanding of the imagination. The study focuses on the epic cycle "the geste of Saint Gille," including Aiol and Elie de Saint Gille.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 301g
• ISBN-13: 9780761848325
• ISBN-10: 0761848320
• Artikelnr.: 27429233

Autorenporträt

By Sandra Malicote

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 List of Figures Chapter 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 Introduction Chapter 4 1: Aiol
Illunination
and the Poetics of the Epic Chapter 5 2: The Illuminated Geste de Saint Gille
Pictor and the Past Chapter 6 3: Parody
Illunimation
and Genre Renewal Chapter 7 4: Roman
Estoire
Exemplum: Illumination of Epic Compilation Chapter 8 5: Illuminating the Old French Epic: Two Late Thirteenth-Century Franco-Flemish Examples Chapter 9 Figures Chapter 10 Selected Bibliography Chapter 11 Index