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L'Espinette amoureuse

Century: 14-15

Histories-Gesta

French

INCIPIT

EXPLICIT

Jean Froissart

Sex: M- Bio: At the court of Jean de Beaumont (+1357), count of Soissons and brother of the count of Hainaut, 1361-1366 in England (with a visit to Scotland in 1365 and to Brussels in 1366), 1362 clerk of Philippa of Hainaut, queen of England (+1369), 1367 with the Black Prince at the court of Bordeaux, 1369 after Philippa's death under the patronate of her brother-in-law Robert of Namur and court poet of Wenceslas of Luxemburg (+1383) and Joanna of Brabant, from 1383 during c.10 years priest of l'Estinnes-au-Mont, afterwards (until 1391) at the court of Guy II de Châtillon, count of Blois and grandson of Froissart's first patron, c.1384 canon of Chimay, c.1388-90 canon of Lille (?c.1337/+after 1404).-Status author (order, function):

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4197 verzen

CONTEXT

ABSTRACT

Partly autobiographical novel in verse.

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TRANSLATIONS

EDITIONS

FOURRIER (A.), L'Espinette amoureuse (Parijs, 1963; herz. ed. in 1972)

LITERATURE

AINSWORTH (P.), ‘Froissart, Jean’, in: G. Dunphy, ed. The Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle (Leiden/Boston, 2010) 642-645
BROWN (W.C.), Violence in Medieval Europe (Harlow, 2011) 261-262
BUSBY (K.), 'Froissart's Poetic Prison. Enclosure as Image and Structure in the Narrative Poetry', in: D. Maddow en S. Sturm-Maddox, eds. Froissart Across the Genres (Gainesville, 1998) 88-90
DEVAUX (J.), 'From the court of Hainaut to the court of England: the example of Jean Froissart', in: C. Allmand (ed.), War, Government and Power in Late Medieval France (Liverpool, 2000) 1-20
FASSEUR (V.) (ed.), Froissart à la cour de Béarn: l'écrivain, les arts et le pouvoir (Turnhout, 2009)
PLANCHE (A.), 'Culture et contre-culture dans l'Espinette amoureuse', in: L'enfant au Moyen Age, Senefiance, 9 (Aix-en-Provence, 1980) 389
PRUD'HOMME (C.), 'Jean Froissart à la cour de Richard II: don du livre et mises en scène du pouvoir', in: Mythes à la cour, mythes pour la cour.Actes Du Xiie Congres de La Societe Internationale de Litterature Courtoise (Genève, 2010) 165-177
RIBEMONT (B.), 'Les procédés d'insertion lyrique chez Froissart: conformité et déviance dans l'Espinette amoureuse', in: Conformité et déviances au moyen âge (Montpellier, 1995) 303-317

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Jan Van Schaftingen
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Update:
2013-06-13 14:20:44