Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

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CONTENANCE ANGLOISE


. The term appears in a passage from Martin Le Franc’s Champion des dames (ca. 1440):


Et ont pris de la contenance
Angloise, et ensuy Domstable,
Pour quoy merveilleuese plaisance
Rend leur chant joieux et notable.

(“They have taken on the English way and have followed Dunstable, in order that
wondrous consonance might make their music joyous and renowned.”) Martin thus


Illustration of Dufay and Binchois in a

manuscript of Martin Le Franc’s

Champion des dames, 1451. BN fr.

12476, fol. 98. Courtesy of the

Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.

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