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Marriage Contracts from Chaucer to the Renaissance Stage
Kathryn Jacobs
Pubdate: 8/12/2001

Kathryn Jacobs relates the changes in marriage law and also the enforcement policies of church courts to the changing literary treatment of marriage in Chaucer's work, in medieval mystery plays, and in the Renaissance plays of the late 16th and early 17th 		Cloth: $59.95
Reassessing the Heroine in Medieval French Literature
Edited by Edited by Kathy M. Krause
Pubdate: 4/12/2001

These essays explore the various manifestations of the heroine in Medieval French literature and her multiple relationships with discourse, both medieval and modern. From a discussion of 12th-century saints’ lives to an examination of 15th-century farce, 		Cloth: $59.95
Shakespeare and Italy: The City and the Stage
Jack D'Amico
Pubdate: 3/25/2001

In this rich study of the Italian settings in eleven of Shakespeare's plays, Jack D'Amico examines the essential characteristics of 16th-century Italian society and the Italian city-state as they come to life on Shakespeare's stage. Through the medium of 		Cloth: $59.95
The Chivalric Epic in Medieval Italy
Juliann Vitullo
Pubdate: 12/17/2000

This book offers a new interpretation of the role of one of the most popular literary traditions in northern Italian medieval culture. Whereas most previous studies describe these epics as either inferior copies of the aristocratic French models or as 		Cloth: $59.95
Chivalric Fiction and the History of the Novel
Caroline A. Jewers
Pubdate: 12/15/2000

Caroline Jewers contests the widespread notion among critics that the novel originated after "Don Quixote," and she argues for the reinstatement of the medieval romance into the current histories of the genre. She maintains that Cervantes cleverly 		Cloth: $59.95
Medieval Mythography, Volume 2: From the School of Chartres to the Court at Avignon, 1177-1350
Jane Chance
Pubdate: 10/22/2000

The second volume in Jane Chance's study of the history of medieval mythography from the 5th through the 15th centuries focuses on the time period in Western Europe between the School of Chartres and the papal court at Avignon. This examination of 		Cloth: $85.00
The Finding of the Grail: Retold from Old French Sources
Patricia Terry and Nancy Vine Durling
Pubdate: 8/21/2000

This lively retelling of the medieval Grail legend presents a unified version of the hero Perceval's quest. Illustrated with 34 miniatures from 13th- and 14th-century manuscripts, it offers a concise and coherent version of a myth that has fascinated 		Cloth: $59.95
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The Anglo-Saxon Warrior Ethic: Reconstructing Lordship in Early English Literature
John M. Hill
Pubdate: 4/21/2000

In the first book-length application of anthropological research to Old English heroic literature, Hill demonstrates that the loyalties and values celebrated in heroic poems are not aspects of an archaic ethical life but instead political models 		Cloth: $59.95
Mastering Aesop: Medieval Education, Chaucer, and His Followers
Edward Wheatley
Pubdate: 3/1/2000

Drawing on exhaustive study of over 100 manuscripts and several versions of Aesop's fables, Wheatley traces the use of the standard medieval Latin fable collection across Europe, the constructions of Aesop that affected that use, and the scholastic 		Cloth: $59.95
Ronsard, Petrarch, and the Amours
Sara Sturm-Maddox
Pubdate: 12/31/1999

A comparative study focusing on the impact of Italy's great Renaissance poet, Francesco Petrarca, on the work of France's great poet, Pierre de Ronsard, who, Maddox argues, was not simply influenced by Petrarca, but made use of "lyric impersonation." 		Cloth: $59.95
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