Shaw Worth

My research concerns the courtly arts of England, France, and Burgundy in the period c. 1380–1500. Primarily, I work on poetry, and fifteenth-century developments in both the formal technique and transmission patterns of Anglophone and Francophone love-lyric: authors of particular interest include Charles d’Orléans, John Lydgate, Alain Chartier (and the querelle of the Belle dame sans mercy), Richard Roos, Michault Taillevent, Jacques Legrand, Christine de Pizan, and collected (pseudo-)Chauceriana. I am interested in shifting attitudes to artworks in this period, and reassessing the changes in procedures of representation they brought about, particularly the advent of naturalism and physiognomic likeness in the visual arts and literature. To do so, my research attempts to embrace a range of interaesthetic standpoints taken from, among others, bibliography and codicology, literary criticism and theory, rhetorical treatises and codifications, and art-historical method. More broadly, I am interested in the vernacular allegorical and lyrico-narrative literary traditions in England and France from the turn of the thirteenth century onwards; I am also preparing an edition of the Middle French apocalyptic treatise in Bodleian Library, MS Douce 134.