{"product_id":"jean-de-saintr233-a-late-medieval-education-in-love-and-chivalry-9780812245868","title":"Jean de Saintr233  A Late Medieval Education in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJean de Saintre is the intriguing story of a young knight's training, his first love, and his disillusionment. It teems with details of armor, jousting and tournaments, heraldry and crusading-and also with a cheerful, and unexpected, eroticism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Roberta L. Krueger and Jane H. M. Taylor have given this text a new and approachable form. . . . The translation makes available a rich source for those interested in the culture of chivalry in the later Middle Ages.\" * \u003ci\u003eThe Medieval Review\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"A most welcome and excellent translation.\" * \u003ci\u003eMediaevistik\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"This new translation of a famous fifteenth-century prose romance by two eminent scholars in the field of French medieval literature is most welcome. . . . This work will be of great use, not only to undergraduate and postgraduate students, but also to non-specialists in the field who are being given the chance to acquaint themselves with a work that has been hailed as one of the forerunners of the modern novel.\" * \u003ci\u003eFrench Studies\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eJean de Saintré\u003c\/i\u003e is an important late medieval text that contributes to our understanding of the development of the modern novel, and offers important information about material culture, conventional gender roles, and social hierarchies in noble court culture. In addition to all that, it's really fun to read and now newly accessible in a fluent and colloquial English translation by Krueger and Taylor.\" * Peggy McCracken, University of Michigan *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJean de Saintré\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Glossary\u003cbr\u003e Selected Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405723312471,"sku":"9780812245868","price":49.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812245868.jpg?v=1730493395","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/jean-de-saintr233-a-late-medieval-education-in-love-and-chivalry-9780812245868","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}