The work is pre-eminently characterized by its meticulous scholarship. Many readers will find much of interest in its pages including some suggestive analyses. Renaissance Studies Armstrong's book is a well-written and solid contribution to the neglected field of late medieval French literature ... Armstrong wants to set an example for scholarship, and he sets a good one, balancing painstaking codicological and bibliographic research with interpretive acuity and conceptual ambitions. Bryn Mawr Classical Review A model of scholarly rigous and excellence. In an elegant, limpid prose, his finely tuned case studies of codicological and printerly details set the state for innovate, often dazzling analyses of literary passages and text-image associations. This volume marks an important contribution to interdisciplinary research on late medieval and early modern book culture. Medium Aevum
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`Armstrong wants to set an example for scholarship, and he sets a good one, balancing painstaking codicological and bibliographic research with interpretive acuity and conceptual ambitions' Bryn Mawr Classical Review
`Armstrong's book demonstrates the richness of his three poets' use of allegory, parody, reflexivity and stylistic play; it is also notable for including, and interpreting in substantial detail, the drawn, painted, and woodcut images contained in their texts' Bryn Mawr Classical Review
`Armstrong's book is a well-written and solid contribution to the neglected field of late medieval French literature' Bryn Mawr Classical Review
`Adrian Armstrong offers an enlightening demonstration of how the material representation of literary works, and of their various subsequent states, critically impacts the creation, production, and reception of meaning.' Cynthia J. Brown, Medium Aevum
`a model of scholarly rigous and excellence. In an elegant, limpid prose, his finely tuned case studies of codicological and printerly details set the state for innovate, often dazzling analyses of literary passages and text-image associations. This volume marks an important contribution to interdisciplinary research on late medieval and early modern book culture.' Cynthia J. Brown, Medium Aevum
`a brilliant, tightly structured, and fully argued analysis ... combining solid traditional bibliography happily with modern theoretical concepts, he says important things about how literary figures envisaged their work, and how physical presentation affects what they meant to say.' Stephen Rawles, June 2001
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