TY - BOOK ID - 5400429 TI - Miraculous rhymes PY - 2007 VL - 8 SN - 9781843841265 1843841266 9781846155741 9786612185694 1282185691 1846155746 PB - Cambridge D.S. Brewer DB - UniCat KW - Gautier, KW - Mary, KW - In literature KW - Apparitions and miracles KW - Criticism and interpretation KW - In literature. KW - Apparitions and miracles. KW - Gautier, - de Coinci, - 1177?-1236 - Criticism and interpretation KW - Gautier, - de Coinci, - 1177?-1236. - Miracles Nostre Dame KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - ʻAdhrāʼ KW - Arogyamata KW - Ārōkkiyamāta KW - Birhen ng mga Dukha KW - Blessed Lady KW - Blessed Mother KW - Blessed Virgin Mary, KW - Hagnē Theotokos KW - Madonna, The KW - Majka Isusova KW - Mama Mary KW - Mare de Déu KW - Maria, KW - Mariam Astuatsatsin, KW - Marie, KW - Marie Théotokos KW - Marii︠a︡, KW - Maryam, KW - Maryja, KW - Meryem Ana, KW - Miryam, KW - Mother of God KW - Muíre, KW - Nossa Senhora KW - Our Lady KW - Our Lady of Emmitsburg KW - Our Lady of Good Health KW - Our Lady of Sorrows KW - Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament KW - Qiddīsah Maryam KW - Theotokos KW - Vierge Marie, KW - Virgen María, KW - Virgin Mary, KW - Virgin of the Poor KW - Ynang Maria, KW - مريم KW - مريم العذراء KW - 성모마리아 KW - Coinci, Gautier de, KW - Coincy, Gautier de, KW - Coinsi, Gautier de, KW - Gauthier, KW - Gautier de Coincy, KW - Gautier, - de Coinci, - 1177?-1236 KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5400429 AB - The well-connected, northern-French monk and musician Gautier de Coinci (1177/8-1236) occupies an unassailable position as one of the most exceptional vernacular writers of the Middle Ages, concerning whom there is nevertheless no full length study in English. In a meticulously planned and supervised collection of miracles of Our Lady, which survive in a remarkable number of manuscripts, some beautifully illustrated, Gautier deploys his outstanding talents as a composer of songs, an acerbic satirist, an audacious inventor of rich and equivocal rhymes (of a virtuosity unparalleled before the "Grands Rhetoriqueurs" on the eve of the Renaissance), a confident lexical innovator, an exuberant exponent of rhetorical wordplay, an incisive observer of contemporary society, and a man of profound personal piety.
This study of word-patterning in Gautier seeks to compensate for the dearth of stylistic studies of Old French and to examine in detail the relationship between rhetoric and religion, "courtoisie" and Mariolatry, aristocratic tastes and the way to spiritual renewal. Gautier's writing strategy is shown to be a means to rise beyond secular, aristocratic values by building on them and transcending them rather than opposing and rejecting them.
TONY HUNT is a Fellow of St Peter's College, Oxford. ER -