Knowing Poetry: Verse in Medieval France from the Rose to the Rhétoriqueurs

by Adrian Armstrong and Sarah Kay

In the later Middle Ages, many writers claimed that prose is superior to verse as a vehicle of knowledge because it presents the truth in an unvarnished form, without the distortions of meter and rhyme. Beginning in the thirteenth century, works of verse narrative from the early Middle Ages were recast in prose, as if prose had become the literary norm. Instead of dying out, however, verse took on new vitality. In France verse texts were produced,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801449731
• ISBN13: 9780801449734
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher