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Literacy and the lay reader

One in a series of volumes offering criticism, scholarship and reviews treating all facets of medieval and Renaissance culture. It focuses on history, art, literature, music, science, law, economics and philosophy.
Print Book, English, 2000
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Md., 2000
Aufsatzsammlung
XI, 158 Seiten.
9780847694495, 9780742508385, 0847694496, 0742508382
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Chapter 1 "Enemies Within/Enemies Without": Threats to the Body Politic in Christine de Pizan Chapter 2 Knightly Violence and Grail Quest Endings: Conflicting Views from the Vulgate Cycle to the Perceval Continuations Chapter 3 Objects of War and Materiality in the Orlando furioso Chapter 4 On the Ethos of the Noble Warrior: Blaise de Monluc's Commentaires Chapter 5 Unity and the Epistre au roi Richart Chapter 6 Gender and Martyrdom Chapter 7 Reassessing King Stephen's Continental Strategies Chapter 8 The Idea of the Perpetual in Twelfth-Century Philosophy and Poetry Chapter 9 Clio in Arachne's Web: Historians Weave the Revolution of 1399 Part 10 Review Article Chapter 11 An Early Patristic Commentary on Mark Part 12 Review Notices Chapter 13 Barbara K. Altmann,The Love Debate Poems of Christine de Pizan Chapter 14 Peter G. Beidler, ed. Masculinities in Chaucer: Approaches to Maleness in the Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde Chapter 15 Alain Boureau,The Lord's First Night: The Myth of the Droit De Cuissage Chapter 16 Gene A Brucker, Florence: The Golden Age, 1138-1737 Chapter 17 Frank A. D'Accone, The Civic Muse: Music and Musicians in Siena During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance Chapter 18 Sheila Delany, Impolitic Bodies: Poetry, Saints, and Society in Fifteenth Century England: The Work of Osbern Bokenham Chapter 19 Janette Dillon, Language and Stage in Medieval and Renaissance England Chapter 20 Joan M. Ferrante, To the Glory of Her Sex: Women's Roles in the Composition of Medieval Texts Chapter 21 Sabina Flanagan, Hildegard of Bingen, 1098-1179: A Visionary Life Chapter 22 Patrick Gilli, Au miroir de l'humanisme: les représentations de la France dans la culture savante italienne à la fin du Moyen Age Chapter 23 Patricia E. Grieve, Floire and Blancheflor and the European Romance Chapter 24 Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Nuns as Artists: The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent Chapter 25 N.J. Higham, The Death of Anglo-Saxon England Chapter 26 Richar Kay, Dante's Monarchia Translated with a Commentary Chapter 27 Hugo Keper, Christoph Bode, and Richard J. Utz, eds., Nominalism and Literary Discourse: New Perspectives Chapter 28 Theresa M. Krier, ed., Refiguring Chaucer in the Renaissance Chapter 29 Marijane Osborn, Romancing the Goddess: Three Middle English Romances about Women Chapter 30 Daniel J. Pinti, ed., Writing After Chaucer: Essential Readings in Chaucer and the Fifteenth Century Chapter 31 Burton Raffel and Alexandra H. Olsen, eds., Poems and Prose from the Old English Chapter 32 Odile Redon, Fraçoise Sabban, and Silvano Serventi, The Medieval Kitchen: Recipes from France and Italy Chapter 33 David Ruderman, Jewish Thought and Scientific Discovery in Early Modern Europe Chapter 34 Debora Kuller Shuger, The Renaissance Bible: Scholarship, Sacrifice, and Subjectivity Chapter 35 Paul Strohm, England's Empty Throne: Usurpation and the Language of Legitimation, 1399 - 1422 Chapter 36 Diane Watt, ed., Medieval Women in Their Communities