Ardis ButterfieldPoetry and Music in Medieval France
From Jean Renart to Guillaume de Machaut
Ardis Butterfield is a Lecturer in English at University College, London. She has published widely on French and English literary and musical history. Her articles have appeared in Medium Aevum and Plainsong and Medieval Music.
List of illustrations
List of tables
List of music examples
Acknowledgments
Bibliographical note
List of abbreviations
Prologue
Part I. Text and Performance: 1. Song and written record in the early thirteenth century
2. The sources of song: chansonniers, narratives, dance-song
3. The performance of song in Jean Renart's Rose
Part II. The Boundaries of Genre: 4. The refrain
5. Refrains in context: a case study
6. Contrafacta: from secular to sacred in Gautier de Coinci and later thirteenth-century writing
Part III. The Location of Culture: 7. 'Courtly' and 'popular' in the thirteenth century
8. Urban culture: Arras and the puys
9. The cultural contexts of Adam de la Halle
Part IV. Modes of Inscription: 10. Songs in writing: the evidence of the manuscripts
11. Chante/fable: Aucassin et Nicolette
12. Writing music, writing poetry: Le Roman de Fauvel in Paris BN fr. 146
Part V: Lyric and Narrative: 13. The two Roses: Machaut and the thirteenth century
14. Rewriting song: chanson, motet, salut, and dit
15. Citation and authorship from the thirteenth to the fourteenth century
Part VI. Envoy: The New Art: 16. The Formes fixes: from Adam de la Halle to Guillaume de Machaut
Epilogue
Glossary
Appendix
Bibliography.
