Writer''s Gift Or the Patron''s Pleasure? - The Literary Economy in Late Medieval France

The Writer's Gift or the Patron's Pleasure? argues that the French King Charles V’s unprecedented enthusiasm for the literary commission triggered a crucial, multi-generational debate within the book community about how a work’s status as solicited or unsolicited affected its value and purpose.

List of contents

Introduction: Rethinking Literary Patronage in a Medieval Context
1. King Charles V’s Sapientia Project: From the Construction of the Louvre Library to the Books He Commissioned
2. The Writer’s Work: Translating Charles V’s Literary Clientelism into Learned Terms
3. Guillaume de Machaut’s Fictions of Engagement
4. Eustache Deschamps on the Duties and Dues of Poetry
5. The Pursuit of Sponsorship: From Christine de Pizan’s Troubled Dealings with Louis of Orléans to Marketing Nostalgia
6. The Curse of the Commission: Christine de Pizan on Sacrificing Charles V’s Biography
Conclusion
Bibliography

About the author

Deborah McGrady is an associate professor of French at the University of Virginia.

Summary

The Writer's Gift or the Patron's Pleasure? argues that the French King Charles V’s unprecedented enthusiasm for the literary commission triggered a crucial, multi-generational debate within the book community about how a work’s status as solicited or unsolicited affected its value and purpose.

Product details

• Authors: Deborah McGrady, Deborah L. McGrady
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9781487503659
• ISBN: 978-1-4875-0365-9
• No. of pages: 366
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Frankreich, Christi Geburt bis 1500 nach Chr., Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte