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Gérard de Nevers
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Gérard de Nevers
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Gerard de Nevers
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Poetry, Knowledge and Community in Late Medieval France
The role of poetry in the transmission and shaping of knowledge in late medieval France.
Before Copyright
Details the development of the privilege system, a precursor to copyright, in early sixteenth-century French publishing.
The Romance of the Violet and Other Wager Tales from Medieval France
A high-stakes wager placed on a woman's virtue; men who spy on bathing women; tell-tale birthmarks; cross-dressing; dragons; tournaments; and aristocrats bursting into song--these features and more appear in the three stories translated here, all versions of the folktale known as "the wager tale." Such stories were especially popular in thirteenth-century France, when noblemen fulfilled their feudal duties far from home. Did their women remain faithful? A pressing question, for only female chastity guaranteed the legitimacy of heirs. This collection offers the first translations into English of The Romance of the Violet and The Count of Poitiers, along with a new version of The Tale of King ...
Staging Early Modern Romance
This collection recovers the continuities between two modes of romance that have long been separated from one another in critical discourse: the prose fictions that early moderns often referred to as romances, and Shakespeare's late plays, which have often been termed 'romances' since Dowden.
