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Book SynopsisEssays in this volume cover topics relevant to medieval Europe including sacred and secular music, historiography, liturgical and biblical studies, sermons and preaching, the architecture of funerary chapels and the role of tombs in literature. Each essay explores the themes using works from the late Middle Ages or early Renaissance.
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Renaissance QuarterlyTable of Contents
- 1.GIULIANO DI BACCO and YOLANDA PLUMLEY Preface
- 2.ARDIS BUTTERFIELD Introduction
- 3.R. BARTON PALMER The Rhetoric of Allusion in Machaut’s Fonteinne amoureuse
- 4.JENNY BENHAM Constructing Memories of Peacemaking
- 5.LINA BOLZONI The Impassioned Memory in Dante’s Divina commedia
- 6.ANNA MARIA BUSSE BERGER Quotation in Medieval Polyphony
- 7.EMMA CAYLEY Citation as Transvestism in Fifteenth Century French Poetry
- 8.HELEN DEEMING Music, Memory and Mobility: Citation and Contrafactum in Thirteenth-Century Sequence Repertories
- 9.SONJA DRIMMER Allusive Images: Intervisuality in Late Middle English Manuscripts?
- 10.NAOMI HOWELL Sensory Sepulchres: Citations of Christ's Tomb in Twelfth-Century Romance
- 11.MARGUERITE KEANE Memory and Royal Identity in the Chapel of Blanche of Navarre at Saint Denis
- 12.TAMSYN ROSE-STEEL "An Unjust and Treacherous Word": the Use of Citational Practices and Language in a Fauvel Motet
- 13.SJOERD LEVELT Citation and Misappropriation in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britannie
- and the Latin Galfridian Tradition
- 14.JENNIFER SALTZSTEIN Refrain Citation and Vernacular Authority in the Music of Adam de la Halle
