Fifteenth Century Studies back issues from January 2007:
Edelgard Else Renate Conradt DuBruck
Jan 01, 2007; ... Born on November 1,1925, as the only child of a merchant (regional manager of a chocolate firm) and a schoolteacher in Breslau (Wroclaw), Silesia, Edelgard Else Renate Conradt would have studied at the university of that city in order to become a music teacher, if the second World War had not ...
Preface I
Jan 01, 2007; ... Since meeting Edelgard DuBruck in Kaprun, Austria, in 1995 - at one of the international medieval congresses organized by Fifteenth-Century Studies with which Edelgard's name has become so inextricably linked - I have benefited immensely from more than a decade of collaborative work with this ...
Preface II
Jan 01, 2007; ... As we encounter Edelgard E. DuBruck, we are impressed and charmed by her attitude, her conversation, her appearance, her behavior, and her intellectual bearing. High quality characterizes every one of her writings, books, articles, and reviews, in whatever language she has chosen, because her ...
Wellness Guides for Seniors in the Middle Ages
Jan 01, 2007; ... Mentioning to non-medievalists that one's research interest is investigating regimens for old people in the Middle Ages invariably draws the following baffled reaction, "but I thought there were no old people in the Middle Ages. Wasn't the life expectancy much lower then, and weren't these folks ...
Sources and Meaning of the Marian Hemicycle Windows at Évreux: Mosaics, Sculpture, and Royal Patronage in Fifteenth-Century France*
Jan 01, 2007; ... Valois Patronage and the Lady Chapel at Évreux At the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Évreux, the stained glass gracing the Lady Chapel represents the culmination of a century of Valois artistic patronage manifested at the ancient See of the Norman Eure. Erected and glazed with funds provided ...
Re-Writing Lucretia: Christine de Pizan's Response to Boccaccio's "De Mulieribus Claris"
Jan 01, 2007; ... In writing Le Livre de la Cité des Dames (1404-1407), Christine de Pizan does not present herself to the reader as an auctor, but rather as a compilator.1 Given that the medieval definition of mventio relies largely on an author's reworking of previously written material, one might legitimately ...
Vernacular Translation and the Sins of the Tongue: From Brant's "Stultifera Navis" (1494) to Droyn's "La Nef des folles" (c. 1498)
Jan 01, 2007; ... Jodocus Badius's humanist treatise the Stultiffrae Naves (1501) [The Ships of Foolish Maidens]1 can be justifiably considered as one of the most innovative adaptations of Sebastian Brant's late-medieval bestseller the Narrenscfaff[Sbip of Fools].2 Based on a well-balanced combination of ...
"La Celestina": ¿Philocaptio o apetito carnal?*
Jan 01, 2007; ... Toute condition sociale anormale prépare à l'exercice de la magie (Marcel Mauss) Tratar de exhumar el tema de la magia en La Celestina (1499) de Fernando de Rojas es meterse en camisa de once varas. El lector celestinesco se preguntará: c'otro articulo sobre el ...
"As Olde Stories Tellen Us": Chivalry, Violence, and Geoffrey Chaucer's Critical Perspective in "The Knight's Tale"
Jan 01, 2007; ... When Chaucer (c. 1343-1400) writes in the Poem "Truth" "Her is non hoom, her nis but wildernesse: / Forth, pilgrim, forth! Forth, beste, out of thy stal!" he is calling for readers to avoid the animalistic distractions and excesses of the secular realm, and by doing so, directs their attention ...
Portrait d'une carrière extraordinaire: Bertrand Du Guesclin, chef de guerre modèle, dans la "Chronique anonyme dite des Cordeliers" (c.1432)
Jan 01, 2007; ... La chanson de Bertrand du Guesclin de Jehan Cuvelier, composée dans les années 1380-85 et toute à la gloire du connétable de France, fonde le mythe; sa mise en prose, en 1387 pour Jean d'Estouteville, sert ensuite de base aux biographies de B. du Guesdin.1 Presque un demi-siècle plus tard, le ...
Humanismo en la Corona de Aragón: el Manuscrito 229 de la Biblioteca Nacional de Francia
Jan 01, 2007; ... El manuscrito 229 de la Biblioteca Nacional de Francia (manuscrito conocido como PN7, según la terminología de Brian Dutton) es conocido entre los hispanistas por el magnífico estudio realizado sobre Juan de Mena por Maxim Kerkhof.1 Kerkhof, en su hasta ahora insuperable trabajo sobre El ...
False Starts and Ambiguous Clues in François Villon's "Testament" (1461)
Jan 01, 2007; ... In the course of his brief life (c.1431-after 1463), the lyric poet François Villon seemingly led multiple existences and intensely re-lived several of them in his memory. His body of work is modest, comprising under 3,000 lines; in quality his poetry is uneven yet at its best unforgettable; and ...
Reassessing Chaucer's Cosmological Discourse at the End of "Troilus and Criseyde" (c.1385)*
Jan 01, 2007; ... Chaucer's ineffectiveness at providing narrative closure is a well known trait across his writings. His fourteenth-c. poem Troilus and Criseyde at first glance appears to be one such case, as it has an ending that reverses - or one could argue even rejects - the preceding focus on secular love ....
Down to Earth and Up to Heaven: The Nine Muses in Martin Le Franc's "Le Champion des Dames"
Jan 01, 2007; ... The Champion of Ladies (1440-42) by Martin Le Franc represents the most extensive defense of women (24,336 octosyllabic verses) within a long series of vernacular works in prose and poetry comprising the corpus of La Querelle des Femmes, which took place during the fifteenth and sixteenth ...
Guillaume Hugonet's Farewell Letter to His Wife on April 3, 1477: "My Fortune Is Such that I Expect to Die Today and to Depart This World"*
Jan 01, 2007; ... Guillaume Hugonet, chancellor to both the late Duke Charles the Bold of Burgundy (1433-77) and his daughter and successor duchess Mary (145782), was beheaded on Maundy Thursday, 1477, on a scaffold especially erected for that purpose on the Vrijdagmarkt of Ghent in Flanders.' He and two other ...
Fifteenth-Century Medicine and Magic at the University of Heidelberg
Jan 01, 2007; ... Founded in 1385 by the Elector Palatine Karl Ruprecht during the papacy of Urban VI, the University at Heidelberg was the third institute of higher learning to be established within the Holy Roman Empire. Thirty-six years after its founding, a fifteen-year old student, Conrad Buitzruss, enrolled ...
Book-Burning: The St. Brendan Story in the Light of Christian Tradition
Jan 01, 2007; ... Among modern readers, the term "book-burning" will automatically evoke images of Nazis throwing books on flaming pyres, as this outrage occurred in May of 1933 when "thousands of books were burned in Germany in universities all over the country."' Fifty years later, in a commemorative speech ...