Journal article
Courtiers and Poets: An International Network of Literary Exchange in Late Fourteenth-Century Italy, France, and England
Viator (Berkeley), (28), pp.305-332
01/01/1997
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https://hdl.handle.net/2376/119535
Abstract
“Courtiers and Poets: An International Network of Literary Exchange in Late Fourteenth-Century Italy, France, and England.” This essay examines the role of an international group of literate court officials on the movement of Italian literature through France and into England in the late fourteenth century. Appreciating the English poetry of the period-as exemplified by Geoffrey Chaucer's-as the end product of a complex system of relations, Hanly investigates the socio-cultural forces that gave rise to this system. He hypothesizes that the noble and ecclesiastical courts of late medieval Italy, France, and England served as a conduit for the movement of Italian humanist works, and thereby seeks to represent late medieval courts not merely as centers of artistic production but as actual loci of exchange. The essay examines archival and other manuscript evidence in tracing the activities of several potential "transmitters": Philippe de Mézières and Honorat Bovet, Jean Muret, Giovanni Moccia, and Richart Eudes. Hanly argues that the movements of these emissaries trace a pattern of connectedness belied by the overall political fractiousness of the period, and that their international connections diffused the themes and texts of Italian humanism westward across the Alps at least a generation before this is commonly believed to have occurred.
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- Title
- Courtiers and Poets: An International Network of Literary Exchange in Late Fourteenth-Century Italy, France, and England
- Creators
- Michael Hanly
- Publication Details
- Viator (Berkeley), (28), pp.305-332
- Academic Unit
- English, Department of
- Identifiers
- 99900619754301842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article