Citation, Intertextuality and Memory in the Middle Ages and Renaissance volume 1 by Plumley, Yolanda; Di Bacco, Giuliano; Jossa, Stefano;

Long description:

From the Middle Ages onwards, writers, artists and composers became self-consciously aware of the vast potential for external references to enrich their works. By evoking canonical texts and their producers from the distant or more recent past, authors demonstrated their respect for tradition while showcasing their own merits. In so doing they also manipulated the memory of their readers. This volume represents a multidisciplinary approach to the themes of citation and intertextual play. It is also an exploration of the role of memory in the cultural production of the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance. The essays investigate work by renowned authors, composers and artists, as well as less familiar sources, from France, England and Italy.

Butterfield and Palti provide wonderful and complementary reflections on English lyric...Collectively, these studies show how varied and dynamic an author/artist’s engagement with traditions and predecessors, as with reader/viewers, can be...Readers will find much to admire in the insightful essays gathered in this volume.

Daisy Delogu, Speculum 91/4

Table of Contents:

• Introduction by Lina Bolzoni (scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy)


• 1. Benjamin Albritton (Washington State University, USA) Translation and Parody: Responses to Machaut's Lay de confort


• 2. Jacques Boogaart (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) Folie couvient avoir. Citation and Transformation in Machaut's Musical Works: Gender Change and Transgression


• 3. Ardis Butterfield (University College London) The Construction of Textual Form: Cross-Lingual Citation in the Medieval Lyric


• 4. Monica Calabritto (City University of New York, USA) Examples, References and Quotations in Sixteenth-Century Medical Texts


• 5. Alessandro Daneloni (University of Messina, Italy) Auctores and Auctoritas in the Preface to Angelo Poliziano's Miscellaneorum Centuria Prima


• 6. Stefano Jossa (Royal Holloway University of London) Classical Memory and Modern Poetics in Ariosto's Orlando furioso


• 7. Domenic Leo (Youngstown State University, USA) The Beginning is the End: Guillaume de Machaut's Illuminated Prologue


• 8. Anthony Musson (University of Exeter) The Power of Image: Allusion and Intertextuality in Illuminated English Law books


• 9. R. Barton Palmer (Clemson University, USA) Self-Allusion and the Poetics of Metafictionality in Guillaume de Machaut's Voir-Dit


• 10. Kathleen Palti (University College London) Representations of Voices in Middle English Lyrics


• 11. Jan Stejskal (University of Olomouc, Czech Republic) Memory and Heresy: Perception of the Hussite Reformation in 15th-century Tuscany


• 12. Anne Stone (City University of New York, USA) Machaut Sighted in Modena


• 13. Karel Thein (University of Prague, Czech Republic) Image, Memory and Judgement. On Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Good Government frescoes and his Allegory of Redemption


• Bibliography


• Index