The focus of the volume, in addition to standard features such as
the bibliographical update on 15th-c. theater, is on late-medieval
authors as literary critics. Founded in 1977 as the publication
organ for the Fifteenth-Century Symposium, Fifteenth-Century
Studies has appeared annually since then. It publishes essays on
all aspects of life in the fifteenth century, including literature,
drama, history, philosophy, art, music, religion, science, and
ritual and custom. The editors strive to do justice to the most
contested medieval century, a period that has long been the
stepchild of research. The fifteenthcentury defies consensus on
fundamental issues: some scholars dispute, in fact, whether it
belonged to the middle ages at all, arguing that it was a period of
transition, a passage to modern times. At issue, therefore, is the
verytenor of an age that stood under the influence of Gutenberg,
Columbus, the Devotio Moderna,, and Humanism. Along with the
standard updating of bibliography on 15th-c. theater, this volume
is devoted to research on late-medieval authors as literary
critics. Thus, for the historian as well as the writer of fiction,
the tenuous limits between truth and fantasy (and the role of
doubt) are investigated. If there are several eyewitness accounts
of an event, which one can be trusted? Medieval memorialists
sometimes became advisors to princes and used a rhetoric of careful
persuasion. Values such as chivalry, courtly love, and kingly
self-representation come up for discussion here.Several essays
ponder the structure of poetic forms and popular genres, and others
consider more factual topics such as incunabula on medications,
religious literature in the vernacular for everyday use, a
student's notebook on magic, and late medieval merchants, money,
and trade. Contributors: Edelgard DuBruck, Karen Casebier, Emma J.
Cayley, Albrecht Classen, Michael G. Cornelius, Jean Dufornet,
Catherine Emerson, Leonardas V. Gerulaitis, Kenneth Hodges, Sharon
M. Loewald, Luca Pierdominici, Michel J. Raby, Elizabeth I. Wade.
Edelgard E. DuBruck is professor emerita in the Modern Languages
Department at Marygrove College in Detroit; Barbara I. Gusick is
professor emerita of English at Troy University-Dothan, Dothan,
Alabama.
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