Setting the tone for volume 24 is a trio of articles on 15th-century French adaptations of Chretien de Troyes’s Arthurian romances. Norris Lacy examines adaptation and reception in Cliges,Jane Taylor writes on the importance of cultural details to reception studies of both Erec and Cliges, and Maria Timelli on structural aspects of Erec. Other studies of romance include MaryLynn Saul’s article on courtly love and patriarchal marriage institutions in Malory, and Anne Caillaud’s piece on gender conventions of courtly love as a vehicle for misogyny in Antoine de la Sale’s Petit Jehan de Saintre. Hans-Joachim Behr deals with an adaptation of the 12th-century historical figure of Heinrich von der Lowe in his article on the poetic workof Michel Wyssenherre. Roxana Recio’s article on Spanish amplifications and glosses draws connections between translation, reception, and interpretation.Moving from romance to legend, Peter De Wilde, in his article on the legendary matter of St. Patrick’s journeys to Purgatory, relates a 15th-century account of one Englishman’s visionary pilgrimage to that destination.A second area of concentration in the volume is the thematic and structural use of motifs. Rainer Goetz discusses archery in Spanish poetry of love and death; Georg Roellenbleck courtly pastimes and the term passe temps in French poetry. James Wilkins focuses on the body as currency in French passion plays. Kristine Patz moves into art history, examining the importance of the Pythagorean ypsilonin the work of the Italian painter Mantegna. Dealing with the turn to Renaissance humanism are articles by Grady Smith on the short literary career and Latin dramas of Titus Livius Frulovisi, and by Christiane Raynaudon humanism and good government in the Latin Romuleon. Franco Mormando investigates a darker moment: the 1426 witch trial in Rome and the role of Bernardino of Siena as its instigator and chronicler. Rouben Choulakian writes on the poetry of Charles d'Orlean.
