Intertextual and intersonic resonance in Richard de Fournival’s Bestiaire d'amour: combining perspectives from literary studies and musicology

The Bestiaire d'amour, as its somewhat strange title suggests, is a multiply hybrid textual beast. The bulk of the text comprises a list of animals whose behaviours it allegorizes: in this way, its title seems aptly to situate it within the bestiary tradition. A closer look, though, reveals th...