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An Open Access edition will be available on publication thanks to generous funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council; the University of Leeds; Drury University; Northwestern University; the University…
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Rosalind Brown-Grant
This is the first monograph devoted to manuscripts illuminated by the mid-fifteenth-century artist known as the Wavrin Master, so-called after his chief patron, Jean de Wavrin, chronicler and councillor at…
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Rosalind Brown-Grant (University of Leeds)
Christine de Pizan’s Livre de la Cite des Dames (1405) is justly renowned for its full-scale assault on the misogynist stereotypes which dominated the culture of the Middle Ages. This…
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Rosalind Brown-Grant,Mario Damen
First English translation of the chivalric biography of the foremost knight of the late Middle Ages.
Rosalind Brown-Grant (Senior Lecturer in French, University of Leeds)
The first in-depth study of a little-known area of French literary history focuses on a group of 15 romances produced in the century from 1390, many commissioned at the court…
Part I: Allegorical Dream-Visions and Debate Poems Friars in Love: Manuscript Illumination as Literary Commentary in Three Fourteenth-Century Manuscripts of the Roman de la rose (Paris, BnF, MS fr. 25526…
Thoroughly interdisciplinary in approach, this volume examines how the exercising of power, the distribution of justice, and transgression against the law were portrayed in both textual and pictorial terms in…
Christine, de Pizan
Christine de Pisan was a pioneer among female authors of the Middle Ages. This text is her first and foremost attempt to defend women from literary misogyny prevalent at the…
This volume examines power and the paratext in medieval books from intellectual disciplines such as history of the book, law, science, music, medicine, literature, art, and philosophy.
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