caa a22 4500 463200314 CHVBK 20180405153110.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11061-007-9035-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11061-007-9035-2 Kay Sarah Department of French and Italian, Princeton Unversity, East Pyne 303, 08544, Princeton, NJ, USA aut Grafting the knowledge community: The purposes of verse in the Breviari d'amor of Matfre Ermengaud [Elektronische Daten] [Sarah Kay] Together with its companion piece, Francesca M. Nicholson's ‹Branches of Knowledge: The Purposes of Citation in the Breviari d'amor of Matfre Ermengaud', this article deploys the image of the grafted tree, used by Matfre Ermengaud to describe the structure of his remarkable encyclopaedia, to explore Matfre's reliance on poetry to transmit and shape knowledge. Concentrating on the opening of the Breviari, this article asks why, when Matfre also has recourse to the expository power of prose and images, he should prefer to compose the major part of his work in verse. Verse, it appears, is identified with the vernacular, with the community of lovers and poets for whom Matfre is writing, and with the faithful transmission of what, unbeknownst to them, they already know: their capacity for love which gives them community with God. The vernacular verse book both celebrates community and conjures it into being. The relation of scion to root in the grafted tree is a way of figuring the way all are bound into unity with knowledge, but not necessarily in the same way or at the same time. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2007 Breviari d'amor nationallicence Matfre Ermengaud nationallicence Encyclopaedias nationallicence Troubadour poetry nationallicence Occitan literature nationallicence Transmission of knowledge nationallicence Textual communities nationallicence Neophilologus Kluwer Academic Publishers 91/3(2007-07-01), 361-373 0028-2677 91:3<361 2007 91 11061 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-007-9035-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-007-9035-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Kay Sarah Department of French and Italian, Princeton Unversity, East Pyne 303, 08544, Princeton, NJ, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Neophilologus Kluwer Academic Publishers 91/3(2007-07-01), 361-373 0028-2677 91:3<361 2007 91 11061 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer