Recently added articles from Fifteenth Century Studies:
Magic on the Early English Stage
Jan 01, 2009; ... Butterworth, Philip. Magic on the Early English Stage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. 295. After a short introduction into the terminology of sleight of hand (dexterity), illusion, and magic on the medieval and early English stages, Butterworth considers all aspects of ...
The Current State of Research on Late-Medieval Drama: 2007-2008. Survey, Bibliography, and Reviews
Jan 01, 2009; ... This article is a regular feature of "Fifteenth-Cenfury Studies." Our intent is to catalogue, survey, and assess scholarship on the staging and textual configuration of dramatic presentations during the late Middle Ages. Like all such, dated material, this assessment remains incomplete. We shall ...
Les mondes théâtraux autour de Guillaume Coquillart (XVe siècle)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Chevalier, Jean-Frédéric, ed. Les mondes théâtraux autour de Guillaume Coquillart (XVe siècle). Langres: Dominique Guéniot, 2005. Pp. 195. Chevalier's collection of articles is divided into three parts: Guillaume Coquillart, ou le théâtre du rire; G. C, ou le théâtre en débat; G. C. et ...
Diables et saints: rôle des diables dans les mystères hagiographiques français
Jan 01, 2009; ... Dupras, Elyse. Diables et saints: rôle des diables dans les mystères hagiographiques fiançais. Geneva: Droz, 2006. Pp. 464. This work on late- medieval hagiographie theater is divided into three parts : the first describes the exterior appearance of devil figures on the stage, while the ...
European Medieval Drama
Jan 01, 2009; ... European Medieval Drama 10. General Editor: Jelle Koopmans. Turnhout: Brepols, 2006. Pp. 247. Jacques E. Merceron initiates this volume with "Le couple ludica-seria et son codage scénologique dans le théâtre religieux de la fin du Moyen Âge: l'exemple du messager 'paien.'" This lengthy ...
Les Mystères de la Procession de Lille. 5 vols.
Jan 01, 2009; ... Knight, Alan E., ed., Les Mystères de laProcession de Lille. 5 vols. Geneva: Droz, 2007. Vol. IV. Pp. 604. In his short introduction to volume IV, Knight explains the principles of his edition. He has indicated his modifications of the text at the bottom of the pages, while longer ...
Love and Conflict in Medieval Drama: The Plays and Their Legacy
Jan 01, 2009; ... Muir, Lynette R. Love and Conflict in Medieval Drama: The Phys and Their Legacy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xv, 294. This book is meant to be a companion volume to Muir's excellent The Biblical Drama of Medieval Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995) ...
Painter and Priest: Giovanni Canavesio's Visual Rhetoric and the Passion Cycle at La Brigue
Jan 01, 2009; ... Plesch, Véronique. Painter and Priest: Giovanni Canavesio's Visual Rhetoric and the Passion Cyck at La Brigue. Notre Dame, Ind.: Notre Dame University Press, 2006. Pp. 488. Giovanni Canavesio, a priest and artist during the second half of die fifteendi century, created a Passion Cycle ...
The Harrowing of Hell in Medieval England
Jan 01, 2009; ... Tamburr, Karl. The Harrowing of Hell in Medieval England. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2007. Pp. xii, 211. The apocryphal "Harrowing of Hell" was taken, along with other extrabiblical stories, from the Gospel of Micodemus (henceforth GM), the Latin version of which dates from the fifth ...
Performing Medieval Narrative
Jan 01, 2009; ... Vitz, Evelyn B., N. F. Regalado, and M. Lawrence, eds. Performing Medieval Marrative. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2005. Pp. xvi; 261. This excellent collection proves that on the stage, oral and gestural performances are just as important as texts. The volume is divided into four parts, the ...
L'épanouissement de l'histoire au quinzième siècle en France
Jan 01, 2009; ... L'histoire en français a été, au XVe siècle, avec la farce et le mystère, un des genres majeurs, et elle montre une étonnante vitalité dont il convient d'élucider les grandes tendances. Elle éclate en plusieurs genres, dont deux sont plus ou moins nouveaux, les mémoires et le journal. Il s'agit ...
The St. Edith Cycle in The Salisbury Breviary (c.1460)
Jan 01, 2009; ... The study of liturgical manuscripts has experienced a wealdi of interdisciplinary activity in the last five years. Richard K. Emmerson has noted diat examinations of illuminated manuscripts have shifted from exclusive concern with stylistic and iconographic analyses to more extensive ...
Poetry as Source for Illustrated Prose: The 1519 Strassburg "Wigoleis vom Rade"
Jan 01, 2009; ... Wirnt von Grafenberg (fi. 1204-10) wrote Wigalois, an Arthurian verse romance which alludes to characters from Erec, Lwein, both by Hartmann von Aue (c.ll60-after 1210), and Parzivalhy Wolfram von Eschenbach (first half of thirteenth century). Hartmann's and Wolfram's stories were of course well ...
Escuelas de traducción en la Edad Media
Jan 01, 2009; ... A mis padres y a mis hermanos El propósito de este trabajo consiste en demostrar el uso del término escuela de traductores en España, sobre todo ella (verdadera) de Íñigo Lopez de Mendoza, marqués de Santillana (1398-1458). Partiendo del análisis del concepto de escuela, paso a precisar ...
Presencia y Ausencia de los Judíos en los "Sermons de quaresma" de Vicente Ferrer
Jan 01, 2009; ... "Porque la letra mata, pero el Espíritu da vida" (II Cor. 3, 4-6). El propósito de mi investigación es analizar la imagen del judío sujeto como despolitizado y como mal lector, a la luz de la teoría del conocimiento en los Sermons de quaresma del san Vicente Ferrer (1350-1419), el ...
Defining Violence in Middle English Romances: "Sir Gowther" and "Libeaus Desconus"
Jan 01, 2009; ... English romances were written in verses, often by anonymous authors, and frequently based on French adventure stories. Some romances appeared in the first half of the thirteenth century, followed by many others in the 1300s and 1400s. They are somewhat moralistic and treat Arthurian material ....
Robert Henryson's "Morall Fabilles": Irony, Allegory, and Humanism in Late-Medieval Fables
Jan 01, 2009; ... A fable is a narrative episode (resulting in a moral), in which animals usually appear with the mental faculties of human beings but with their own physical characteristics. At times, humans are present with or without animals. This type of literature was particularly developed among the Greeks ....
Louis XI, A French Monarch in Pilgrim's Garb: Badges
Jan 01, 2009; ... In book ten, chapter five, of The Hunchback ofNotre-Dame (1831), Victor Hugo depicts a superstitious King Louis XI of France sequestered with his advisors, resolving to hang the heroine Esmeralda as a witch despite her having claimed sanctuary in the cathedral of Notre-Dame. Asking advance ...
"Als ich dich vor gelert haun": Conrad Buitzruss's Recipe Collection in Manuscript Clm 671 (Munich)
Jan 01, 2009; ... A notebook of Buitzruss, who studied at Heidelberg in the early fifteenth century, illustrates the practical outlook of the city's academic community. Among the varieties of texts preserved in Conrad's collection is a cookbook that has gone unnoticed thus far by scholars of European food ...
Ten Poems from the "Gruuthuse Songbook" (c.1462)
Jan 01, 2009; ... One of the most valuable manuscripts in Dutch literary history is the Gruuthuse Songbook. This volume, copied five times during the last quarter of the fourteenth century and soon after, contains a series of 147 Middle Dutch lyrics, complete with musical notation. No other lyric texts from the ...