French Literature Reviews - 2026
A. Ilina, The Hierarchy Between Text and Image in the Prose Tristan
Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Alexandra Ilina
The Hierarchy Between Text and Image in the Prose Tristan
Paris, Classiques Garnier, Cultural History series, 2020
EAN: 9782406100096
370 p. — 38,00 €
This textual and iconographic analysis explores variations in the concept of hierarchy within the Prose Tristan and the iconography of some of its manuscripts.
Published in the Cultural History series by Classiques Garnier, this volume offers a rigorous textual and iconographic analysis of the Prose Tristan. Alexandra Ilina investigates the complex interplay between written narrative and visual representation across several manuscript traditions. By examining how medieval illuminations interact with the text, the study sheds light on the evolving aesthetic and symbolic structures that governed artistic production during the medieval period.
This book will be of particular interest to scholars and students of medieval literature, codicology, and art history who examine the relationship between literature and manuscript illumination. It provides valuable methodological approaches for understanding how medieval readers and scribes negotiated the authority of written word versus visual image within chivalric romance traditions.