"Counterfeit" Imitatio: Understanding the Poet-Patron Relationship in Machaut's "Fonteinne amoureuse" and Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess."

Author / Editor
Strakhov, Elizaveta.

Title
"Counterfeit" Imitatio: Understanding the Poet-Patron Relationship in Machaut's "Fonteinne amoureuse" and Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess."

Published
In Jamie C. Fumo, ed. Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess": Contexts and Interpretations (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2018), pp. 157-75.

Description
Argues that the differing treatments of Morpheus in BD and Machaut's "Fonteinne amoureuse" "reflect on the advantages and limitations of 'imitatio' as a tool for authorial self-promotion." Underlying this reflection are contrasting strategies for harnessing poetic authority, either through literary history or through contemporary patronage.

Alternative Title
Book of the Duchess: Contexts and Interpretations.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations