Citation, Intertextuality and Memory in the Middle Ages and Renaissance Volume 1: Text, Music and Image from Machaut to Ariosto

by Plumley, Yolanda; Bacco, Giuliano; Jossa, Stefano

• ISBN13: 9780859898515
• ISBN10: 0859898512
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-09-15
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Summary

From the Middle Ages onward, writers, artists, and composers have evoked canonical works from the distant or more recent past, in some cases in order to demonstrate respect for tradition, in others merely to enrich their own productions. But whatever their reasons, they all, explainsCitation, Intertextuality, and Memory in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, manipulated the memory of their readers. The essays in this multidisciplinary volume offer a wide array of scholarship on the role of memory and citation in the cultural production of the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance, examining both renowned and less well-known works from France, England, and Italy.

Author Biography

Yolanda Plumley is director of the Center for Medieval Studies at the University of Exeter and a reader in medieval music and culture. Guiliano Di Bacco is a research fellow in medieval studies at the University of Exeter. Steffano Jossa is a lecturer in Italian at Royal Holloway, University of London.