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Article: Madeleine Jeay, Le Commerce des mots: L'Usage des listes dans la litterature medievale (XIIe-XVe siecles).(Book review)
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- Medium Aevum
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- September 22, 2008
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Madeleine Jeay, Le Commerce des mots: L'Usage des listes dans la litterature medievale (XIIe-XVe siecles), Publications romanes et francaises 241 (Geneva: Droz, 2006). 552 pp. ISBN 2-600-01065-3. 75.90 [euro].
This study analyses the different uses and effects of lists in over four centuries of writing. It provides a range of insights that will be essential reading for any future scholarship involving lists either in the medieval period or in later texts (Rabelais is an obvious candidate, but there are of course numerous others up to, and including, the present day). Jeay rightly points out that previous criticism, including of Rabelais, tends to struggle to come ...