Books by Sylvia Huot

The Roman de la Rose explicitly offers an 'art of love', while also repeatedly asserting that the experience of love is impossible to put into words.

Sylvia Huot points out the theatrical, performative quality of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century French illuminated manuscripts.

This book focuses on the literary artistry of the texts of Old French and bilingual motets, notably the special feature of motets that distinguished them from other medieval lyric forms: the phenomenon of polytextuality.

The Romance of the Rose was one of the most important and influential works of medieval vernacular literature. In this book, Sylvia Huot investigates how medieval readers understood the text, assessing the evidence to be found in well over 200 surviving manuscripts.