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The Commerce Of Time: The Influence Of Thirteenth Century Commercial Society On The Conception And Expression Of Time In Parisian Poet Rutebeuf’s Corpus

Powers, Ashley
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1469089012

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2016, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, French and Italian.
This dissertation examines the ways in which the newly emerging commercial society impacted the conception and expression of time in thirteenth century Parisian poet Rutebeuf’s corpus. It does so by examining how Rutebeuf’s narrator employs commercial metonymies, metaphors, and mindsets to manipulate the expression of time for his own benefit. Rather than be a product of his time, time becomes a product of the narrator. The use of figural manifestations of commerce to manipulate time appears to be unique to Rutebeuf and testifies to the influence of the urban environment on his work. The narrator’s manipulation of time would not have been possible if it were not for the new ways of conceptualizing time brought about by the thirteenth century commercial revolution. Rather than fixed and rigid, time with the (re)development of the commercial network became fluid and mutable, allowing the narrator to reshape his past, present, and future.
Sarah-Grace Heller (Advisor)
Jonathan Combs-Schilling (Committee Member)
Ethan Knapp (Committee Chair)
231 p.
Economic History; European History; Medieval Literature
Medieval Literature; Medieval Commerce; Medieval Time; Rutebeuf; Medieval Paris; Thirteenth Century France

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  • Powers, A. (2016). The Commerce Of Time: The Influence Of Thirteenth Century Commercial Society On The Conception And Expression Of Time In Parisian Poet Rutebeuf’s Corpus [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1469089012

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Powers, Ashley. The Commerce Of Time: The Influence Of Thirteenth Century Commercial Society On The Conception And Expression Of Time In Parisian Poet Rutebeuf’s Corpus. 2016. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1469089012.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Powers, Ashley. "The Commerce Of Time: The Influence Of Thirteenth Century Commercial Society On The Conception And Expression Of Time In Parisian Poet Rutebeuf’s Corpus." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1469089012

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