Recently added articles from Fifteenth Century Studies:
La Scène et les tréteaux
Jan 01, 2008; DuBruck, Edelgard E ... Rousse, Michel. La Scene etles treteaux. Orleans: Paradigme, 2004. Pp. 336. Prefaced by Jean Dufournet, this volume in honor of Michel Rousse, one of Dufournet's students, brings a selection of Rousse's articles (over the years) on farces reprinted from various publications, named at the ...
Jean Bodel: Le Jeu de saint Nicolas
Jan 01, 2008; DuBruck, Edelgard E ... Dufournet,Jean, ed. and trans. Jean Bodel: Le Jeu de saint Nicolas. Paris: GF Flammarion, 2005. Pp. 291. We now have an excellent new edition of the first vernacular French play by one of the greatest playwrights of the Middle Ages (1165?-1210), who belonged to the Confrérie des ...
Pierre Gringore: Les Entrées royales à Paris de Marie d'Angleterre (1514) et Claude de France (1517)
Jan 01, 2008; DuBruck, Edelgard E ... Brown, Cynthia J., ed. Pierre Gringore: Les Entrees royales a Paris de Marie d'Angleterre (1514) et Claude de France (1517). Geneva: Droz, 2005. Pp. 357. 19 illustrations. This volume contains important texts explaining the politics of female royal entries into Paris at the beginning of ...
The Current State of Research on Late-Medieval Drama: 2005-2007. Survey, Bibliography, and Reviews
Jan 01, 2008; DuBruck, Edelgard E ... This article is a regular feature of "Fifteenth-Century Studies." Our intent is to catalogue, survey, and assess scholarship on the staging and textual configuration of dramatic presentations in the late Middle Ages. Like all such dated material, this assessment remains incomplete. We shall ...
Les Mystères de la Procession de Lille
Jan 01, 2008; DuBruck, Edelgard E ... Knight, Alan E., ed. LesMysteres de la Procession de Lille. Five vols, planned. HI: "De Salomon aux Maccabees." Geneva: Droz, 2004. Pp. 632. We welcome having had access to Knight's third volume of Lille drama editions, all of the Old Testament. The manuscripts are in the Herzog August ...
European Medieval Drama 7
Jan 01, 2008; DuBruck, Edelgard E ... European Medieval Drama 7. General Editor: Pamela King. Turnhout: Brepols, 2003. Pp. 169. EMD8. General Editor: AlanHindley. Brepols, 2004. Pp. vii; 230. EMD 9 (ed. Hindley). Brepols, 2005. Pp. 248. As usual, we discuss only articles referring to the fourteenth, fifteenth, or sixteenth ...
Sotise à huit personnaiges [Le Nouveau Monde]
Jan 01, 2008; DuBruck, Edelgard E ... Duhl, Olga Amia, ed. Sotise a kuitpersonnaiges [Le Nouveau Monde]. Geneva: Droz, 2005. Pp. 344. This new edition of a long sotie, called sotise, is a welcome work, well interpreted by its editor. As she explains on pages 55-60, sotises (a French genre quite rare in early modern dramatic ...
Text, Culture, and Print-Media in Early Modern Translation: Notes on the "Nuremberg Chronicle" (1493)
Jan 01, 2008; Green, Jonathan ... Within the history of translation between the Vulgate by St. Jerome (347-419/20) and the 1500s, more than a few landmarks are situated in early modern Germany, from Heinrich Steinhöwel's Esopus (1476) and Niklas von Wyle's Translatzen (1478) to Martin Luther's Bible. The diglossia of Latin and ...
Los prólogos y las dedicatorias en los textos traducidos de los siglos XIV y XV: Una fuente de información sobre la traducción
Jan 01, 2008; Fernández, Rocío del Río ... A mi familia y a mis amigos El presente artículo tiene por objeto abordar el estudio de los prólogos y las dedicatorîas de algunas de las obras traducidas durante los siglos XIV y XV con el fin de demostrar, basándome en la informacion proporcionada en los mismos, que en el siglo XIV ...
The Rise and Persistence of a Myth: Witch Transvection
Jan 01, 2008; Gerulaitis, Leonardas Vytautas ... Whether humans can perform the feat of flying is a question deeply rooted in humankind's consciousness. Certainly our study of ancient civilizations suggests the affirmative if mythology provides a clue. The Assyro-Babylonians believed in Ningirsu and the goddess Lilitu (flying gods), while the ...
"Ne supra crepidam sutor!" [Schuster, bleib bei deinem Leisten!]: Das Diktum des Apelles seit Petrarca bis zum Ende des Quattrocento
Jan 01, 2008; Hessler, Christiane J ... Lehrbuben: Das macht, weil sein Meister em Schuster! Beim Leisten sitzt er mit der Feder! Beim Dichten mit Draht und Pfriem! Seine Verse schreibt er auf rohes Leder. Das - dächt ich - gerbten wir ihm! (Richard Wagner, Die Meistersinger von ...
Maistre Chevalet: La Vie de Sainct Christofle
Jan 01, 2008; DuBruck, Edelgard E ... Servet, Pierre, ed. Maistre Chevalet: La Vie de Sainct Christofle. Geneva: Droz, 2006. Pp. 1101. Written at Grenoble c.1516, performed in 1527, and published in 1530, the Life of St Christofle is one of the rare original mystery plays of the sixteenth century. Its author, Master ...
Recovering Queen Isabeau of France (c.1370-1435): A Re-Reading of Christine de Pizan's Letters to the Queen
Jan 01, 2008; Adams, Tracy ... Queen Isabeau's vilipended reign has generated a great deal of scholarship; however, the monarch's negative appraisal is mostly an outgrowth of the volatile political constellation in which she operated. During the first half of the fifteenth century, the Hundred Years' War between France and ...
Diálogos textuales: una comparación entre "Clériadus et Méliadice" y "Ponthus et Sidoine"
Jan 01, 2008; Amor, Lidia ... Los estudios pioneros de Gaston Zink, consagrados a esclarecer las fuentes que subyacen a la composición de Clériadus et Meliadice (desde ahora: CM-entre 1435 y 1445), fueron el único intento para relacionar este roman con la tradición narrativa francesa medieval.1 A pesar de la multiplicidad de ...
Money as Incentive and Risk in the Carnival Comedies of Hans Sachs (1494-1576)
Jan 01, 2008; DuBruck, Edelgard E ... The Europeans' use of money as a medium of exchange for transactions began soon after the twelfth century and continued throughout the commercial revolution (under Italian leadership) even though a barter system prevailed for a long time. Transhistorically, money in its relation to themes or ...
"De l'ombre de mort en clarté de vie": The Evolution of Alain Chartier's Public Voice
Jan 01, 2008; Kinch, Ashby ... Alain Chartier's La Belle Dame sans mercy (1424, henceforth: BDSM) has inspired controversy from its stormy first reception, when certain self-styled "loyaulx serviteurs," writing to the aristocratic ladies of a court of love, claimed that the work attempted to "mectre rumeur en la court ...
Écriture et pouvoir à l'aube des temps modernes
Jan 01, 2008; DuBruck, Edelgard E ... Blanchard, Joël, and Jean-Claude Mühlethaler. Écriture etpouvoir à l'aube des temps modernes. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2002. Pp. 230. Printed in the series "Perspectives Littéraires," this important summary of literary analyses of writings on the relationship between ...
Philippe de Commynes, "Mémoires."
Jan 01, 2008; Zale, Sanford ... Blanchard, Joël, trans. Philippe de Commynes, "Memoires."'Paris: Pocket, 2004. Pp. 794. Joël Blanchard is not only a scholarly expert on Philippe de Commynes who has already published (Paris: Librairie Générate Française ["Lettres Gothiques"], 2001) a one-volume edition of, and is ...
Robert Henryson's "Orpheus and Eurydice" and Its Sources
Jan 01, 2008; Petrina, Alessandra ... Robert Henryson (1425P-1506?), a Scottish poet and schoolmaster, remained fairly independent when imitating Chaucer in his The Testament of Cresseid; but the Scotsman's stanzas are often as harmonious as his master's. Unlike the Testament or Henryson's Morall Fabillis (late 1480s, inspired by ...
"Nudus nudum Christum sequi": The Franciscans and Differing Interpretations of Male Nakedness in Fifteenth-Century Italy
Jan 01, 2008; Mormando, Franco ... In the year 1420, a small band of Franciscan friars was arrested in Venice by the Signori di Motte [Lords of the Night], one of the special magistracies responsible for pohchig and prosecuthig serious crime. The four friars were charged with violation of the Most Serene Repubhc's law against ...