{{Distinguish|text=boxer Jean Renard or merchant Jean Renaud}}{{Short description|Picard writer}} '''Jean Renart''', also known as '''Jean Renaut''', was a Picard trouvère from the end of the 12th century and the first half of the 13th to whom three works are firmly ascribed: two metrical chivalric romances, ''L'Escoufle'' ("The Kite") and ''Guillaume de Dole'', and a lai, ''Lai de l’Ombre''. Nothing else is known of him or his life. He is praised for his realism and his psychological insight.<ref>"Renart, Jean".</ref>
Vigneras proposed in 1933 that the dates for Jean Renaut would have to be moved forward: while other scholars dated his activities to between 1195 and 1215, he dated ''L'Escoufle'' to after 1245.<ref>Vigneras, 241.</ref> ''Guillaume de Dole'' is "generally regarded as his chef d'oeuvre."<ref>Durling, 2.</ref> It is a longer narrative poem, notable for its incorporation of a large number of shorter lyric poems, including a number of ''chansons de toile''.<ref>"Chanson de toile".</ref> The date of composition is usually placed early in the thirteenth century.<ref>Terry and Durling, 1.</ref>
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==Bibliography== *{{Cite encyclopedia|title = Chanson de toile|encyclopedia = Harvard Dictionary of Music|page = 161|publisher = Harvard UP|year = 2003|isbn = 9780674011632|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=02rFSecPhEsC&pg=PA161|accessdate = 2010-01-30}} *{{cite book|last=Durling|first=Nancy Vine|title=Jean Renart and the art of romance: essays on Guillaume de Dole|year=1997|publisher=UP of Florida|isbn=978-0-8130-1495-1|pages=1–10|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ia7qw28dHTAC|editor=Nancy Vine Durling|accessdate=16 November 2010|chapter=Introduction}} *{{Cite encyclopedia|title = Renart, Jean|encyclopedia = Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed|publisher = Columbia University Press|year = 2007|url=http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0841521.html|accessdate = 2010-11-14}} *{{cite book|last=Terry|first=Patricia|author2=Nancy Vine Durling |title=The Romance of the Rose or Guillaume De Dole|publisher=U of Pennsylvania P|year=1993|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f0FmE1GmPmQC|isbn=978-0-8122-1388-1}} *{{cite journal|last=Vigneras|first=Louis André|title=Etudes sur Jean Renart I. Sur la Date du Roman de l'Escoufle|journal=Modern Philology|year=1933|volume=30|issue=3|pages=241–262 |jstor=434445|doi=10.1086/388040|s2cid=161886230}}
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