Durham E-Theses The blasom poétique and allied poetry of the French renaissance Saunders, Alison M. How to cite: Saunders, Alison M. (1972) The blasom poétique and allied poetry of the French renaissance, Durham theses, Durham University. Available at Durham E-Theses Online: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/7944/ Use policy The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that: • a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in Durham E-Theses • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders. Please consult the full Durham E-Theses policy for further details. Academic Support Oce, Durham University, University Oce, Old Elvet, Durham DH1 3HP e-mail:
[email protected] Tel: +44 0191 334 6107 http://etheses.dur.ac.uk ABSTRACT This thesis is a study of the development of the "blason poetique in the sixteenth century. We have focussed our attention on the blason anatomique - a subsection of this main genre - and have tried to demonstrate that the blason anatomique does fit in with the blason -poetique, which itself forms part of a French literary tradition with roots stretching back to the.fourteenth century, and which continues into the seventeenth century and beyond. The key to the genre lies in its descriptive, interpretative character, inherited from its heraldic ancestry.