Fifteenth-Century Studies 37

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Barbara I. Gusick, Matthew Z. Heintzelman
Camden House, 2012 - History - 254 pages
Annual collection on diverse aspects of the fifteenth century, emphasizing literary topics with essays on French, German, English, Gaelic, and Middle Scots.

The fifteenth century defies consensus on fundamental issues; most scholars agree, however, that the period outgrew the Middle Ages, that it was a time of transition and a passage to modern times. Fifteenth-Century Studiesoffers essays on diverse aspects of the period, including liberal and fine arts, historiography, medicine, and religion.
Volume 37 includes articles on René d'Anjou and authorial doubling in the Livre du Coeur d'Amour épris; tradition and innovation in popular German song poetry from Oswald von Wolkenstein to Georg Forster; the role of sacred images in Capgrave's Life of Saint Katherine; milieu, John Strecche, and the Gawain-poet; Gaelic, Middle Scots, and the question of ethnicity in three Scottish flytings; William Caxton's translations of Aesop; the visualization of information in Conrad Buitzruss's compendium; and Gilles de Rais and his modern apologists. Book reviews conclude the volume.

Contributors: Albrecht Classen, Nicholas Ealy, Richard Garrett, Rosanne Gasse, Janice McCoy, Jacqueline Murdock, Ben Parsons, Carolyn King Stephens, Elizabeth Wade-Sirabian.

BARBARA I. GUSICK is Professor Emerita of English at Troy University, Dothan, Alabama; MATTHEW Z. HEINTZELMAN is curator of the Austria/Germany Study Center and Rare Book Cataloger at Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, Saint John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota.

 

Contents

From Oswald von Wolkenstein to Georg Forster
1
René dAnjou and Authorial Doubling in the Livre du Cœur dAmour épris
17
William Caxton and Aesop
47
Gaelic Middle Scots and the Question of Ethnicity in the Scottish Flyting
71
The Role of Sacred Images in Capgraves The Life of Saint Katherine
97
Gilles de Rais and His Modern Apologists
113
Milieu John Strecche and the GawainPoet
139
Reference Tools Tables and Diagrams in Conrad Buitzrusss Compendium Clm 671
201
Book Reviews
225
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