author
Henri de Croy
A little-known nobleman linked to the Burgundian world, he is remembered above all for a late medieval treatise on verse and poetic craft. His name survives through a book that offers a rare glimpse into how rhyme and rhetoric were taught at the end of the Middle Ages.
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L'art et science de rhethorique pour faire rigmes et ballades
by Henri de Croy
About the author
Henri de Croy is generally described as a nobleman and writer associated with the Burgundian period. Modern publisher and catalog pages consistently connect him with L'art et science de rhethorique pour faire rigmes et ballades, a short treatise on poetry and versification that has kept his name in literary history.
Because he is a fairly obscure figure, biographical details are limited and not always presented with much certainty. The safest picture is that of a courtly author from the late medieval Burgundian world whose reputation rests mainly on this work about the techniques of rhyme, ballads, and rhetorical form.
That makes him an interesting author for listeners curious about early literary theory: not a broadly famous personality, but a writer whose surviving text opens a window onto the rules, tastes, and poetic habits of his time.