The Marian Image in the Gruuthuse songs II.97, II.99 and II.101

Abstract

This Bachelor thesis investigates which Marian imageries are used in three songs of the Gruuthuse manuscript (II. 97 Binnen in mir hertzen cas, II.99 Wel up, elc sin die vruecht begaert, and II.101 Musike, die in der naturen) and how these descriptions relate to imageries of Mary used in the contemporaneous motet repertory by Guillaume de Machaut and in the fourteenth-century motets of French provenance.