Writer's Gift or the Patron's Pleasure?: The Literary Economy in Late Medieval France

ISBN-13: 9781487503659 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 366 str.

Deborah L. McGrady

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The Writer's Gift or the Patron's Pleasure? argues that the French King Charles V's unprecedented enthusiasm for the literary commission triggered a crucial, multi-generational debate within the book community about how a work's status as solicited or unsolicited affected its value and purpose.