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Fig.7

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An image of Grosseteste preaching to a crowd, then from a thirteenth century manuscript of his poem 'Chasteau d'amour'.

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‘ Ky bien pense bien poet dire.’ A line that practices exactly what it preaches: it is difficult to render it in English without clogging up its rhythm, the succinctness and clarity of the thought it contains. “Who think well speaks well,” perhaps. . . . . It is the opening line of the long poem ‘Chasteau d’amour’ (The Castle of Love), in which the Christian idea or redemption is given a courtly make-over, the CCrucifixion explained in an allegory of princes and princesses and told in elegantly rhymed couplets of Anglo-Norman. It was written in the first half of the thirteenth century, and the poet was Robert Grosseteste. plato.stanford.edu/entries/grosseteste We can see him in an illumination that accompanies the poem in a manuscript now at Lambeth Palace. There he is, seated on the left, his long index finger extended, the classic gesture of the storyteller. Perhaps it is this very poem that he is declaiming to the audience at his feet. Certainly they look rapt. The women clutch their hearts, a man raises his hand in amazement (or may be he has a question). The listener on the right gazes adoringly upwards, locking eyes with Grosseteste. Only the large pelican squatting on the trees, can break the connection, a symbol of bad audience, string insolently, resolutely offstage. . . . Page 49

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