Wes Williams
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198159407
- eISBN:
- 9780191673610
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198159407.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature
This book studies the place and meaning of pilgrimage in European Renaissance culture. It makes new material available and also provides fresh perspectives on canonical writers such as Rabelais, ...
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This book studies the place and meaning of pilgrimage in European Renaissance culture. It makes new material available and also provides fresh perspectives on canonical writers such as Rabelais, Montaigne, Marguerite de Navarre, Erasmus, Petrarch, Augustine, and Gregory of Nyssa. The book undertakes a bold exploration of various interlinking themes in Renaissance pilgrimage: the location, representation, and politics of the sacred, together with the experience of the everyday, the extraordinary, the religious, and the represented. It also examines the literary formation of the subjective narrative voice in the texts examined, and its relationship to the rituals and practices the book reviews. This book aims both to gain a sense of the shapes of pilgrim experience in the Renaissance and to question the ways in which recent theoretical and historical research in the area has determined the differences between fictional worlds and the real.Less
This book studies the place and meaning of pilgrimage in European Renaissance culture. It makes new material available and also provides fresh perspectives on canonical writers such as Rabelais, Montaigne, Marguerite de Navarre, Erasmus, Petrarch, Augustine, and Gregory of Nyssa. The book undertakes a bold exploration of various interlinking themes in Renaissance pilgrimage: the location, representation, and politics of the sacred, together with the experience of the everyday, the extraordinary, the religious, and the represented. It also examines the literary formation of the subjective narrative voice in the texts examined, and its relationship to the rituals and practices the book reviews. This book aims both to gain a sense of the shapes of pilgrim experience in the Renaissance and to question the ways in which recent theoretical and historical research in the area has determined the differences between fictional worlds and the real.
Jean-Marie Le Gall
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199594795
- eISBN:
- 9780191741494
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199594795.003.0010
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity, Religion and Literature
The French Renaissance (c.1500–1640) produced a diverse body of literature devoted to the lives of the saints, including individual lives, multi-authored catalogues and anthologies, sermons, revised ...
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The French Renaissance (c.1500–1640) produced a diverse body of literature devoted to the lives of the saints, including individual lives, multi-authored catalogues and anthologies, sermons, revised liturgies, diocesan lists, editions of patristic texts, and prose and verse plays. Hagiography continued to reinforce corporate identities as it had in medieval culture. Humanism and religious reform tended to undermine this use of hagiography by encouraging more critical approaches, but also prompted a vigorous Catholic revival of hagiography. Humanist-inspired critical scholarship, which peaked in the seventeenth century, did not usher in widespread ‘disenchantment’ with the cult of the saint as is often alleged. Rather it reoriented hagiography away from excessive reverence for the classical era and toward a more informed piety.Less
The French Renaissance (c.1500–1640) produced a diverse body of literature devoted to the lives of the saints, including individual lives, multi-authored catalogues and anthologies, sermons, revised liturgies, diocesan lists, editions of patristic texts, and prose and verse plays. Hagiography continued to reinforce corporate identities as it had in medieval culture. Humanism and religious reform tended to undermine this use of hagiography by encouraging more critical approaches, but also prompted a vigorous Catholic revival of hagiography. Humanist-inspired critical scholarship, which peaked in the seventeenth century, did not usher in widespread ‘disenchantment’ with the cult of the saint as is often alleged. Rather it reoriented hagiography away from excessive reverence for the classical era and toward a more informed piety.
Wes Williams
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198159407
- eISBN:
- 9780191673610
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198159407.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature
This chapter examines pilgrimage writing during the French Renaissance period. During this period, pilgrim texts can be categorized into guides, logs, and narrations, with the latter categories ...
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This chapter examines pilgrimage writing during the French Renaissance period. During this period, pilgrim texts can be categorized into guides, logs, and narrations, with the latter categories further subdivided into letters, diaries, and narratives. These forms of pilgrim writing survived into the Renaissance and some texts remained either one or other of the three primary kinds even if they changed name. Some of the key changes during the Renaissance include the transformation of pilgrimage writing into a contested field where the relationship between names, things, and people are put on trial.Less
This chapter examines pilgrimage writing during the French Renaissance period. During this period, pilgrim texts can be categorized into guides, logs, and narrations, with the latter categories further subdivided into letters, diaries, and narratives. These forms of pilgrim writing survived into the Renaissance and some texts remained either one or other of the three primary kinds even if they changed name. Some of the key changes during the Renaissance include the transformation of pilgrimage writing into a contested field where the relationship between names, things, and people are put on trial.
Kathleen Wellman
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300178852
- eISBN:
- 9780300190656
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300178852.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Early Modern History
This book shows that certain women, especially those featured in the following chapters, played a fundamental part in delineating the Renaissance in France, and, despite the efforts of subsequent ...
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This book shows that certain women, especially those featured in the following chapters, played a fundamental part in delineating the Renaissance in France, and, despite the efforts of subsequent writers to reduce them to romantic figures or even write them out of history altogether, exercised political power and influence. They contributed to the new culture in such significant ways that they, as much as their male counterparts, defined the French Renaissance. In fact, the French Renaissance was shaped, in large part, by the actions and accomplishments of these women. As such, the court's centrality and women's status in it made the French Renaissance more distinctively feminine than its Italian counterpart. Compared with the Italian Renaissance, French elite women, especially queens and mistresses, were in a better position to advance this new cultural movement.Less
This book shows that certain women, especially those featured in the following chapters, played a fundamental part in delineating the Renaissance in France, and, despite the efforts of subsequent writers to reduce them to romantic figures or even write them out of history altogether, exercised political power and influence. They contributed to the new culture in such significant ways that they, as much as their male counterparts, defined the French Renaissance. In fact, the French Renaissance was shaped, in large part, by the actions and accomplishments of these women. As such, the court's centrality and women's status in it made the French Renaissance more distinctively feminine than its Italian counterpart. Compared with the Italian Renaissance, French elite women, especially queens and mistresses, were in a better position to advance this new cultural movement.
Paul Usher
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199687848
- eISBN:
- 9780191767814
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199687848.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature, European Literature
The introduction begins by setting out an initial paradox: why is it that even tourists are arguably aware of, and probably appreciate, the epic art of French Renaissance châteaux whereas the ...
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The introduction begins by setting out an initial paradox: why is it that even tourists are arguably aware of, and probably appreciate, the epic art of French Renaissance châteaux whereas the period’s literary epics—over 200 in number—are maligned and, more generally, not read? The connection between literary epic and the sister arts is subsequently revealed to be not a problem, but the means by which the initial paradox could be explored. To present a first idea of method, several works of art from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Renaissance room are discussed in terms of their relationship to the written word. Discussion follows of the study’s historical, generic, and other boundaries, as well as of those previous studies with which it dialogues. Several essential words art defined: epic (not used in French until 1623) and art (all too often assumed to mean ‘painting’, and here pluralized).Less
The introduction begins by setting out an initial paradox: why is it that even tourists are arguably aware of, and probably appreciate, the epic art of French Renaissance châteaux whereas the period’s literary epics—over 200 in number—are maligned and, more generally, not read? The connection between literary epic and the sister arts is subsequently revealed to be not a problem, but the means by which the initial paradox could be explored. To present a first idea of method, several works of art from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Renaissance room are discussed in terms of their relationship to the written word. Discussion follows of the study’s historical, generic, and other boundaries, as well as of those previous studies with which it dialogues. Several essential words art defined: epic (not used in French until 1623) and art (all too often assumed to mean ‘painting’, and here pluralized).
Kathleen Wellman
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300178852
- eISBN:
- 9780300190656
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300178852.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, European Early Modern History
This chapter focuses on Francis I, a handsome, tall, and richly attired king who epitomized the French Renaissance, and who, coming to the throne as a young man, embodied hopes for a new reign with ...
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This chapter focuses on Francis I, a handsome, tall, and richly attired king who epitomized the French Renaissance, and who, coming to the throne as a young man, embodied hopes for a new reign with his vitality, which offered a striking contrast to the enfeebled Louis XII. Francis I claimed that “a court without women is like a year without spring” and that, without women, a court “more resembles the court of a satrap or a Turk than that of a great Christian king.” In his estimation, a cultured court required women. As such, the royal court, the venue in which the Renaissance emerged in France, was more hospitable to women than other new cultural sites, especially when the king promoted their participation.Less
This chapter focuses on Francis I, a handsome, tall, and richly attired king who epitomized the French Renaissance, and who, coming to the throne as a young man, embodied hopes for a new reign with his vitality, which offered a striking contrast to the enfeebled Louis XII. Francis I claimed that “a court without women is like a year without spring” and that, without women, a court “more resembles the court of a satrap or a Turk than that of a great Christian king.” In his estimation, a cultured court required women. As such, the royal court, the venue in which the Renaissance emerged in France, was more hospitable to women than other new cultural sites, especially when the king promoted their participation.
Kathleen Wellman
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300178852
- eISBN:
- 9780300190656
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300178852.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Early Modern History
This book tells the history of the French Renaissance through the lives of its most prominent queens and mistresses, beginning with Agnes Sorel, the first officially recognized royal mistress in ...
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This book tells the history of the French Renaissance through the lives of its most prominent queens and mistresses, beginning with Agnes Sorel, the first officially recognized royal mistress in 1444, and including Anne of Brittany, Catherine de Medici, Anne Pisseleu, Diane de Poitiers, and Marguerite de Valois, among others. It concludes with Gabrielle d'Estrees, Henry IV's powerful mistress during the 1590s. The author shows that women in both roles—queen and mistress—enjoyed great influence over French politics and culture, not to mention over the powerful men with whom they were involved. The book also addresses the enduring mythology surrounding these women, relating captivating tales that uncover much about Renaissance modes of argument, symbols, and values, as well as our own modern preoccupations.Less
This book tells the history of the French Renaissance through the lives of its most prominent queens and mistresses, beginning with Agnes Sorel, the first officially recognized royal mistress in 1444, and including Anne of Brittany, Catherine de Medici, Anne Pisseleu, Diane de Poitiers, and Marguerite de Valois, among others. It concludes with Gabrielle d'Estrees, Henry IV's powerful mistress during the 1590s. The author shows that women in both roles—queen and mistress—enjoyed great influence over French politics and culture, not to mention over the powerful men with whom they were involved. The book also addresses the enduring mythology surrounding these women, relating captivating tales that uncover much about Renaissance modes of argument, symbols, and values, as well as our own modern preoccupations.
Kathleen Wellman
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300178852
- eISBN:
- 9780300190656
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300178852.003.0009
- Subject:
- History, European Early Modern History
This book sees it fit to end the history of the Renaissance—as told here through the lives of some of its most prominent queens and mistresses—with the death of Gabrielle d'Estrees. The year of ...
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This book sees it fit to end the history of the Renaissance—as told here through the lives of some of its most prominent queens and mistresses—with the death of Gabrielle d'Estrees. The year of Gabrielle's death coincided with the inauguration of a new period in French history, with much stronger state control of politics, economics, and culture, and with less openness to politically active women; although, as in all times, there were notable exceptions. Gabrielle's death marked the end of the immediate possibility of a mistress becoming queen of France. Obvious comparisons between Agnes and Gabrielle, the mistresses who begin and end this history, respectively, are also presented and analyzed here. The women profiled here belong to the political, social, and cultural history of the French Renaissance, and undertook important political and cultural activities during the period, making them more central to the unfolding of French history than one might expect or than most histories of the period acknowledge.Less
This book sees it fit to end the history of the Renaissance—as told here through the lives of some of its most prominent queens and mistresses—with the death of Gabrielle d'Estrees. The year of Gabrielle's death coincided with the inauguration of a new period in French history, with much stronger state control of politics, economics, and culture, and with less openness to politically active women; although, as in all times, there were notable exceptions. Gabrielle's death marked the end of the immediate possibility of a mistress becoming queen of France. Obvious comparisons between Agnes and Gabrielle, the mistresses who begin and end this history, respectively, are also presented and analyzed here. The women profiled here belong to the political, social, and cultural history of the French Renaissance, and undertook important political and cultural activities during the period, making them more central to the unfolding of French history than one might expect or than most histories of the period acknowledge.
George Hoffmann
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198159629
- eISBN:
- 9780191673658
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198159629.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
In Montaigne's age hardly anyone made a living through writing. This book examines the practical world in which he and his peers wrote in order to suggest that works like the Essays, for all the ...
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In Montaigne's age hardly anyone made a living through writing. This book examines the practical world in which he and his peers wrote in order to suggest that works like the Essays, for all the status they enjoy today as classics, neither originated in detached pursuits nor flourished as self-contained activities. From where did his wealth come? How did he spend his days at home on the family estate? How did he publish his book? This book follows Montaigne from his wine presses to the printing press, and reveals that he may have expended much more time and effort managing his family's property than has been thought; that publishing demanded he perform professional tasks such as financing, proofreading, and revising for his publisher; and, finally, that rather than an alternative to a political career, writing may have played an integral role in his political ambitions.Less
In Montaigne's age hardly anyone made a living through writing. This book examines the practical world in which he and his peers wrote in order to suggest that works like the Essays, for all the status they enjoy today as classics, neither originated in detached pursuits nor flourished as self-contained activities. From where did his wealth come? How did he spend his days at home on the family estate? How did he publish his book? This book follows Montaigne from his wine presses to the printing press, and reveals that he may have expended much more time and effort managing his family's property than has been thought; that publishing demanded he perform professional tasks such as financing, proofreading, and revising for his publisher; and, finally, that rather than an alternative to a political career, writing may have played an integral role in his political ambitions.
Cave Terence
- Published in print:
- 1985
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198158356
- eISBN:
- 9780191673290
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198158356.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
This chapter examines the etymologies of copia in relation to the cornucopian text problems of writing during the French Renaissance period. Its etymologies touch on many central aspects of Latin ...
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This chapter examines the etymologies of copia in relation to the cornucopian text problems of writing during the French Renaissance period. Its etymologies touch on many central aspects of Latin culture and its European legacy because they originate from the successful outgrowth from the parent form, which embraces the domains of material riches and natural plenty and figurative abundance. Thus in many of its senses, copia can be taken to mean the notion of mastery, whether linguistic or social.Less
This chapter examines the etymologies of copia in relation to the cornucopian text problems of writing during the French Renaissance period. Its etymologies touch on many central aspects of Latin culture and its European legacy because they originate from the successful outgrowth from the parent form, which embraces the domains of material riches and natural plenty and figurative abundance. Thus in many of its senses, copia can be taken to mean the notion of mastery, whether linguistic or social.
Cave Terence
- Published in print:
- 1985
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198158356
- eISBN:
- 9780191673290
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198158356.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
This chapter examines the concept of improvisation and inspiration in relation to the cornucopian text problems of writing during the French Renaissance period. It suggests that Desiderius Erasmus' ...
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This chapter examines the concept of improvisation and inspiration in relation to the cornucopian text problems of writing during the French Renaissance period. It suggests that Desiderius Erasmus' allusion to Proteus as a figure for copius discourse leads directly to the theme of extempore fluency and this makes evident the extent to which copia is a term that eludes the constraints of precept. It suggests that the notions of improvisation and inspiration mirror one another in French poetics.Less
This chapter examines the concept of improvisation and inspiration in relation to the cornucopian text problems of writing during the French Renaissance period. It suggests that Desiderius Erasmus' allusion to Proteus as a figure for copius discourse leads directly to the theme of extempore fluency and this makes evident the extent to which copia is a term that eludes the constraints of precept. It suggests that the notions of improvisation and inspiration mirror one another in French poetics.
Paul White
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780197265543
- eISBN:
- 9780191760358
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197265543.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Early Modern History
Jodocus Badius Ascensius (1462-1535), also known as Josse Bade, was a scholar and printer who played a central role in the flourishing of humanism and print culture in the French Renaissance. In a ...
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Jodocus Badius Ascensius (1462-1535), also known as Josse Bade, was a scholar and printer who played a central role in the flourishing of humanism and print culture in the French Renaissance. In a career spanning four decades, he was involved with the print publication of something approaching one thousand editions. He was known for the ‘familiar’ commentaries he wrote and published as introductions to the major authors of Latin (and less frequently, Greek) antiquity, as well as on texts by medieval and contemporary authors. His commentaries and prefaces document the early stages of French humanism, and his texts played a major role in forming the minds of future generations. This book provides an account of Badius’s contributions to pedagogy, scholarship, printing and humanist culture. Its main focus is on Latin language commentaries on classical texts. It examines Badius’s multiple roles in the light of changing conceptions of textual culture during the Renaissance. It also explores the wider context of the communities with which Badius cultivated relationships: scholars and printers, figures from religious orders, the university and officialdom. It considers the readerships for which Badius produced texts in France, England, Scotland, the Low Countries, and beyond. It explores the ways in which humanists understood the circulation of knowledge in terms of economy and commerce, and their conceptualizations of commentary as a site of cultural mediation.Less
Jodocus Badius Ascensius (1462-1535), also known as Josse Bade, was a scholar and printer who played a central role in the flourishing of humanism and print culture in the French Renaissance. In a career spanning four decades, he was involved with the print publication of something approaching one thousand editions. He was known for the ‘familiar’ commentaries he wrote and published as introductions to the major authors of Latin (and less frequently, Greek) antiquity, as well as on texts by medieval and contemporary authors. His commentaries and prefaces document the early stages of French humanism, and his texts played a major role in forming the minds of future generations. This book provides an account of Badius’s contributions to pedagogy, scholarship, printing and humanist culture. Its main focus is on Latin language commentaries on classical texts. It examines Badius’s multiple roles in the light of changing conceptions of textual culture during the Renaissance. It also explores the wider context of the communities with which Badius cultivated relationships: scholars and printers, figures from religious orders, the university and officialdom. It considers the readerships for which Badius produced texts in France, England, Scotland, the Low Countries, and beyond. It explores the ways in which humanists understood the circulation of knowledge in terms of economy and commerce, and their conceptualizations of commentary as a site of cultural mediation.
Tom Conley
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816669646
- eISBN:
- 9781452946573
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816669646.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This book studies how topography, the art of describing local space and place, developed literary and visual form in early modern France. Arguing for a “new poetics of space” ranging throughout ...
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This book studies how topography, the art of describing local space and place, developed literary and visual form in early modern France. Arguing for a “new poetics of space” ranging throughout French Renaissance poetry, prose, and cartography, this book performs dazzling readings of maps, woodcuts, and poems to plot a topographical shift in the late Renaissance in which space, subjectivity, and politics fall into crisis. It charts the paradox of a period whose demarcation of national space through cartography is rendered unstable by an ambient world of printed writing. This tension, the book demonstrates, cuts through literature and graphic matter of various shapes and forms—hybrid genres that include the comic novel, the emblem-book, the eclogue, sonnets, and the personal essay. The book differs from historical treatments of spatial invention through the book’s argument that the topographic sensibility is one in which the ocular faculty, vital to the description of locale, is endowed with tact and touch.Less
This book studies how topography, the art of describing local space and place, developed literary and visual form in early modern France. Arguing for a “new poetics of space” ranging throughout French Renaissance poetry, prose, and cartography, this book performs dazzling readings of maps, woodcuts, and poems to plot a topographical shift in the late Renaissance in which space, subjectivity, and politics fall into crisis. It charts the paradox of a period whose demarcation of national space through cartography is rendered unstable by an ambient world of printed writing. This tension, the book demonstrates, cuts through literature and graphic matter of various shapes and forms—hybrid genres that include the comic novel, the emblem-book, the eclogue, sonnets, and the personal essay. The book differs from historical treatments of spatial invention through the book’s argument that the topographic sensibility is one in which the ocular faculty, vital to the description of locale, is endowed with tact and touch.
Hélène Gautier
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- November 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780198810810
- eISBN:
- 9780191847950
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198810810.003.0018
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval, Poetry and Poets: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This chapter adds to the discussion of the French translations of Virgil by focusing on Books 4 and 6 of Du Bellay’s translations of the Aeneid, written in the 1550s. The chapter places Du Bellay’s ...
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This chapter adds to the discussion of the French translations of Virgil by focusing on Books 4 and 6 of Du Bellay’s translations of the Aeneid, written in the 1550s. The chapter places Du Bellay’s translation in the context of Renaissance translations and of the evolution of French language and poetics. Furthermore, Gautier contemplates how Du Bellay’s translations of Virgil made a mark on his own original poetry, and vice versa. One form of poetry becomes closely intertwined with and informs the other. Du Bellay not only assimilates the imagery and rhythm of Virgilian epic but, through Virgil, ponders on his own poetic voice.Less
This chapter adds to the discussion of the French translations of Virgil by focusing on Books 4 and 6 of Du Bellay’s translations of the Aeneid, written in the 1550s. The chapter places Du Bellay’s translation in the context of Renaissance translations and of the evolution of French language and poetics. Furthermore, Gautier contemplates how Du Bellay’s translations of Virgil made a mark on his own original poetry, and vice versa. One form of poetry becomes closely intertwined with and informs the other. Du Bellay not only assimilates the imagery and rhythm of Virgilian epic but, through Virgil, ponders on his own poetic voice.
Sam Wolfe
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- December 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780198804673
- eISBN:
- 9780191842887
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198804673.003.0008
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Syntax and Morphology
This chapter summarizes the main findings of the book and considers their wider consequences. The Medieval Romance languages are argued to occupy important points on the V2 typology, which are linked ...
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This chapter summarizes the main findings of the book and considers their wider consequences. The Medieval Romance languages are argued to occupy important points on the V2 typology, which are linked to variable loci of V2 within the left periphery. Contrary to various claims in the literature, the analysis suggests that many Romance V2 systems are not less strict than all their Germanic counterparts. It is suggested that changes observable within the medieval period concerning V2 may account for important morphosyntactic isoglosses separating Romance varieties today, impacting the makeup of the left periphery, the null argument system, and the syntax–pragmatics mapping more generally. The chapter concludes by suggesting that the post-medieval period is an important forum for future research, with detailed research on the varieties in question from the 14th century onwards generally lacking in the literature.Less
This chapter summarizes the main findings of the book and considers their wider consequences. The Medieval Romance languages are argued to occupy important points on the V2 typology, which are linked to variable loci of V2 within the left periphery. Contrary to various claims in the literature, the analysis suggests that many Romance V2 systems are not less strict than all their Germanic counterparts. It is suggested that changes observable within the medieval period concerning V2 may account for important morphosyntactic isoglosses separating Romance varieties today, impacting the makeup of the left periphery, the null argument system, and the syntax–pragmatics mapping more generally. The chapter concludes by suggesting that the post-medieval period is an important forum for future research, with detailed research on the varieties in question from the 14th century onwards generally lacking in the literature.
Tom Conley
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816669646
- eISBN:
- 9781452946573
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816669646.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter discusses the Itinerarium provinciarum by Antonini Augusti and its 1512 issue edited by Geoffroy Tory, a map emblematic of the relationship of topography and cosmography in the early ...
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This chapter discusses the Itinerarium provinciarum by Antonini Augusti and its 1512 issue edited by Geoffroy Tory, a map emblematic of the relationship of topography and cosmography in the early years of the French Renaissance. An image of the world prior to the Columbian discoveries, the map contains land and water within a broad arc. The map serves as fitting epigraph for reflection on topography in the early work of French writer and humanist François Rabelais, particularly on his novels Pantagruel and Gargantua. Studies of his geography have shown that an uncanny awareness of the changing form of the world influences the ever-changing proportions of the author’s gentle giants in the worlds they inhabit. The chapter argues that the concepts of Rabelais would fit in Geoffroy Tory’s scheme because they belong to local places and aspire to a more animated and changing view of the world.Less
This chapter discusses the Itinerarium provinciarum by Antonini Augusti and its 1512 issue edited by Geoffroy Tory, a map emblematic of the relationship of topography and cosmography in the early years of the French Renaissance. An image of the world prior to the Columbian discoveries, the map contains land and water within a broad arc. The map serves as fitting epigraph for reflection on topography in the early work of French writer and humanist François Rabelais, particularly on his novels Pantagruel and Gargantua. Studies of his geography have shown that an uncanny awareness of the changing form of the world influences the ever-changing proportions of the author’s gentle giants in the worlds they inhabit. The chapter argues that the concepts of Rabelais would fit in Geoffroy Tory’s scheme because they belong to local places and aspire to a more animated and changing view of the world.
