The Machaut Map: Geoffrey Chaucer, Christine de Pizan, the Diegetic Self, and Pre-Renaissance Individualism in Northern Europe.

Author / Editor
Kimmelman, Burt.

Title
The Machaut Map: Geoffrey Chaucer, Christine de Pizan, the Diegetic Self, and Pre-Renaissance Individualism in Northern Europe.

Published
In R. Barton Palmer and Burt Kimmelman, eds. Machaut's Legacy: The Judgment Poetry Tradition in the Later Middle Ages and Beyond (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2017), pp. 89-138.

Description
Studies the development of "poetic self-assertions" and "authorship poetics" in late medieval poetry, concentrating on Guillaume de Machaut's influence on Chaucer in LGWP and on Christine de Pizan. Comments on the legacies of Dante, Petrarch, and others, and explores the functions of literary personae; mirror imagery and mise en abîme effects; patronage; political contexts; books as objects; and private reading in the growth of the "cultural capital" of the poetic self, an aspect of rising humanism.

Alternative Title
Machaut's Legacy.

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations