Knowing Poetry : Verse in Medieval France from the "rose" to the "rhetoriqueurs" -- Electronic book text (English Language Edition)

In France verse texts were produced, in both French and Occitan, with the explicit intention of transmitting encyclopedic, political, philosophical, moral, historical, and other forms of knowledge.In Knowing Poetry, Adrian Armstrong and Sarah Kay explore why and how verse continued to be used to transmit and shape knowledge in France.