INTRODUCTION TO ROBERT GUIETTE: “Formal Poetry in France in the Middle Ages” and “The Adventure of Formal Poetry”

This introduction offers a brief overview of the life and work of the early twentieth-century Flemish medieval studies scholar Robert Guiette, and presents two of his most influential pieces, “L’aventure de la poesie formelle”, and “La poesie formelle en France au Moyen Age”, in which he presented his ideas about a medieval poetry based on a formal esthetic.