Clement Marot : Figure, Text and Intertext

This monograph focuses on the perennial problem of Marot as a transitional poet, challenging the underlying premise that Renaissance poetry is inherently superior to late medieval poetry.

It stresses the value of the Huizinga model of the transition from Middle Ages to Renaissance as a context in which to situate Marot and offers a formulation to describe the sometimes rather strange blend of the old and new in his work.