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Book SynopsisLatest volume of annual publication covering a variety of aspects of life in the fifteenth century. Fifteenth-Century Studies has appeared annually since its foundation in 1977 as the publication arm for the Fifteenth-Century Symposium, and aims to include essays on all aspects of life during the time, medicine, philosophy, painting, religion, science, history, ritual and custom, music, and poetry. It covers a period which defies consensus on various fundamental issues; indeed, some dispute that the fifteenth century can be regarded as part of themiddle ages, arguing that it is a time of transition to the modern age. Fifteenth-Century Studies takes no dogmatic view on the vexed questions the period presents, rather aiming to encourage a dispassionate assessment offifteenth-century life and literature, examining the preoccupations of those living in the period and attempting to identify the threads which bind the achievements of figures as diverse as Malory, Machiavelli, Copernicus, Caxton,Margery Kempe, Hans Holbein, Joan of Arc, and Christine de Pizan. There is also a wide-ranging review section.
Table of ContentsPersuasion and (special) pleading in Francois Villon, Barbara N. Sargent-Baur; time and unredemption - perceptions of Christ's work in the Towneley "Lazarus", Barbara I. Gusick; Thomas Wardon - a mid-15th-century reader, 1448-62, Karen E. Mura; du "Miroir des Princes" au "Miroir des Princesses" - rapport intertextuel entre deux livres de Christine de Pizan, Xiangyun Zhan; rhetorical paradoxes of the French late Middle Ages - Mother Folly the Wise, Olga Anna Dull; "as tuching the beyring of their torchez" - the unwholesome rebellion of York's cordwainers at the rite of Corpus Christi, Zina Petersen; the genealogy of an idea - from "La Cite des Dames" to "Le Fort inexpugnable de l'honneur de sex feminin", Colette Hall; das fuenfzehnte Jahrhundert - die deutsch Literatur des Spaetmittelalters im Licht der juengsten Forschung von ca 1985 bis 1994, Albrecht Classen.
