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almafu_9960120016002883
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1 online resource (272 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-282-94683-8
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9786612946837
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1-57113-791-2
Series Statement:
Fifteenth-century studies ; 28
Content:
Founded in 1977 as the publication organ for the Fifteenth-Century Symposium, 'Fifteenth-Century Studies' has appeared annually since then. It publishes essays on all aspects of life in the fifteenth century, including literature, drama, history, philosophy, art, music, religion, science, and ritual and custom. The editors strive to do justice to the most contested medieval century, a period that has long been the stepchild of research. The fifteenth century defies consensus on fundamental issues: some scholars dispute, in fact, whether it belonged to the middle ages at all, arguing that it was a period of transition, a passage to modern times. At issue, therefore, is the very tenor of an age that stood under the influence of Gutenberg, Columbus, the 'Devotio Moderna,', and Humanism. Along with the standard updating of bibliography on 15th-c. theater, this volume is devoted to research on late-medieval authors as literary critics. Thus, for the historian as well as the writer of fiction, the tenuous limits between truth and fantasy (and the role of doubt) are investigated. If there are several eyewitness accounts of an event, which one can be trusted? Medieval memorialists sometimes became advisors to princes and used a rhetoric of careful persuasion. Values such as chivalry, courtly love, and kingly self-representation come up for discussion here. Several essays ponder the structure of poetic forms and popular genres, and others consider more factual topics such as incunabula on medications, religious literature in the vernacular for everyday use, a student's notebook on magic, and late medieval merchants, money, and trade. Contributors: Edelgard DuBruck, Karen Casebier, Emma J. Cayley, Albrecht Classen, Michael G. Cornelius, Jean Dufornet, Catherine Emerson, Leonardas V. Gerulaitis, Kenneth Hodges, Sharon M. Loewald, Luca Pierdominici, Michel J. Raby, Elizabeth I. Wade. Edelgard E. DuBruck is professor emerita in the Modern Languages Department at Marygrove College in Detroit; Barbara I. Gusick is professor emerita of English at Troy University-Dothan, Dothan, Alabama.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
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""Frontcover ""; ""CONTENTS ""; ""Essays""; ""The Current State of Research on Late-Medieval Drama: 1998-2000. Survey, Bibliography, and Reviews""; ""History or Fiction? The Role of Doubt in Antoine de La Sale's 'Le Paradis de la royne Sibille'""; ""Drawing Conclusions: the Poetics of Closure in Alain Chartier's Verse""; ""Widows: Their Social and Moral Functions According to Medieval German Literature, with Special Emphasis on Erhart Gross's 'Witwenbuch' (1446)""; ""Robert Henryson's Pastoral Burlesque 'Robene and Makyne' (c.1470)""
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""Late-Medieval Merchants: History, Education, Mentality, and Cultural Significance""""Grandeur et modernité de Philippe de Commynes (1447-1511)""; ""Who Witnessed and Narrated the 'Banquet of the Pheasant' (1454)? A Codicological Examination of the Account's Five Versions""; ""Medications Recommended in Incunabula""; ""English Knights, French Books, and Malory's Narrator""; ""Quatre figures féminines apocryphes dans certains Mystères de la Passion en France""; ""Die Bibel in der spätmittelalterlichen religiösen Gebrauchsliteratur""
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""Conter et juger dans les 'Arrêts d'Amour' de Martial d'Auvergne (c. 1460)""""L'Argent: cette nouvelle merveille des merveilles dans la version en prose de la 'Chanson d'Esclarmonde' (1454)""; ""Magic and Superstition in a Fifteenth-Century Student Notebook""; ""Book Reviews""; ""Baumgarte, Susanne, ed. Summa bonorum: Eine deutsche Exempelsammlung aus dem 15. Jahrhundert nach Stephan von Bourbon. Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 1999. Pp. 335.""; ""Blanchard, Joël, ed. Philippe de Commynes: Mémoires. Paris: Librairie Générale Française, 2001. Pp. 895.""
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""Bordier, Jean-Pierre. Le Jeu de la Passion. Le message chrétien et le théâtre français (XIIIe-XVIe siècle). Paris: Champion, 1998. Pp. 863.""""Cadogan, Jean H., Domenico Ghirlandaio: Artist and Artisan. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000. Pp. 425; 321 color and b/w illustrations.""; ""Cavallo, Sandra, and Lyndan Warner, ed. Widowhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. London: Pearson Education, 1999. Pp. xiii, 272.""
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""Albrecht Classen, Hg. Deutsche Frauenlieder des fünfzehnten und sechzehnten Jahrhunderts: Authentische Stimmen in der deutschen Frauenliteratur der Frühneuzeitoder Vertreter einer poetischen Gattung (das 'Frauenlied')? Amsterdam/Atlanta, GA: Rodopi B.V., 1999. 228 Seiten.""""Deschaux, Robert, ed., Martin Le Franc: Le Champion des Dames, 5 vols. Paris: Honoré Champion, 1999.""; ""Duval, Frédéric, ed. Le Romuleon en françois. Traduction de Sébastien Mamerot. Édition critique, introduction et notes par Frédéric Duval. Geneva: Droz, 2000. Pp. lviii, 635.""; ""Freeman, Michael, and Jane H. M. Taylor, ed. Villon at Oxford: The Drama of the Text. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1999. Pp. 391.""
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-57113-273-2
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781571137913
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