Controlling Readers : : Guillaume de Machaut and His Late Medieval Audience / / Deborah L. McGrady.

• VerfasserIn: McGrady, Deborah L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.)

Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377) was the master poet of fourteenth-century France. He established models for much of the vernacular poetry written by subsequent generations, and he was instrumental in institutionalizing the lay reader. In particular, his longest and most important work, the Voir dit...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Reading and the Laity
• Part One. Inscribed Readers: The Invention of the Lay Reader in Text and Image
• 1. Reading between the Lines: Responses to Lay Literacy in Late Medieval Manuscripts
• 2. Lay Readers in Guillaume de Machaut's Voir dit
• Part Two. Intermediary Readers and Their Shaping of Machaut's Voir dit
• 3. Instructing Readers: Metatext and the Table of Contents as Sites of Mediation in BnF, MS fr. 1584
• 4. Illustrations and the Shape of Reading: Pictorial Programs in BnF, MS fr. 1584 and MSS fr. 22545-22546
• 5. Layout and the Staging of Performance in BnF, MS fr. 9221
• Part Three. Inventive Readers and the Struggle for Control
• 6. Eustache Deschamps as Machaut's Reader: Staking out Authority in the Master('s) Text
• 7. 'Nouveleté gaires ne gist': Jean Froissart's Reinvention of the Author-Reader Relationship
• 8. Reading and Salvation: The Case of Pierpont Morgan, MS M 396
• Conclusion: The Residual Text, the Fading of the Author, and the Role of Technology
• Appendix I: Pictorial Content for the Voir Dit in MSS A, F, and Pm
• Appendix II: Pm Manuscript Alterations
• Appendix III: Illustration Key
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index