Grands rhétoriqueurs
Grands rhétoriqueurs (Eng. "The great rhetoricians") is an invented term to denigrate French-speaking court poets from the middle of the 15th century. until the middle of the 16th century. According to Paul Zumthor , Charles d'Héricault took the term "rhetorician" in 1861 from Guillaume Coquillart's Satire des Droits Nouveaux (1481), where he criticized lawyers.
This name refers to the fact that several 15th century treatises on poetics used the term "rhetoric" in the title, suggesting that poetry was understood as a branch of rhetoric.
Important representatives
- 14th Century
- Guillaume de Machaut (around 1300–1377), the forerunner of the movement
- 15th century
- Jean Robertet (1405–1492), at the court of the Bourbons
- Georges Chastelain (1415–1475), at the court of the Bourbons
- Henri Baude (1415–1490), at the royal court in Paris
- Jean Meschinot (1422–1490), at the court of Brittany
- Olivier de la Marche (1425–1502), at the court of Burgundy
- Jean Molinet (1435–1507), at the court of Burgundy
- Octavien de Saint-Gelais (1468–1502)
- 16th Century
- Jean Marot (from 1450–1526), at the royal court in Paris
- Guillaume Dubois (v. 1460-1525)
- Jean Lemaire de Belges (1473–1515?), At the court of Burgundy, then at the royal court in Paris
- Pierre Gringore (1475-1539)
- André de La Vigne (from 1470 – ap. 1515)
- Jean Bouchet (1476–1557)
bibliography
- Gisela Febel, Poesia ambigua or From the Alphabet to the Poem. Aspects of the development of modern French poetry at the Grands Rhétoriqueurs , Frankfurt am Main, Klostermann, 2001.
- Paul Zumthor, La Lettre et la Voix. De la "littérature" médiévale , Paris, Le Seuil, 1987.
- Paul Zumthor, Le Masque et la Lumière. La poétique des grands rhétoriqueurs , Paris, Le Seuil, 1978.
Web links
- Les Grands rhétoriqueurs (Archives de Littérature du Moyen-Age)