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Medievalia et Humanistica No. 31 - Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture (Hardcover)
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Medievalia et Humanistica No. 31 - Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture (Hardcover)
Series: Medievalia et Humanistica Series
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Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won
worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America
to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies.
Since 1970, a new series, sponsored by the Modern Language
Association of America and edited by an international board of
distinguished scholars and critics, has published interdisciplinary
articles. In yearly hardbound volumes, the new series publishes
significant scholarship, criticism, and reviews treating all facets
of medieval and Renaissance culture: history, art, literature,
music, science, law, economics, and philosophy. Volume thirty-one
in the new series contains six original and refereed articles that
represent a reengagement with history. They focus on a variety of
topics, ranging from reception theory in Andreas Capellanus and the
ideal sovereign in Christine de Pizan to peasant rebel leaders in
late-medieval and early-modern Europe. Don Monson's article makes
good usage of Jauss's reception theory and analyzes the third
Dialogue of Book I, Chapter 6 of De Amore in a thorough and
intelligent way. Important aspects of the relationship between
"scientific" Latin treaties and Provencal courtly poetry are neatly
demonstrated. Karen Gross examines structural and thematic
resemblances between the Aeneid and De Casibus, arguing that
Anchises' "pageant of future Roman worthies" (Aen. VI) is connected
to the frame structure of De casibus. The author is interested in
"global similarities, not local verbal echoes," and believes that
the "structure resonances" have implications for "how Boccaccio
understood the interaction between history and poetry, between the
living and the dead." Especially thought-provoking and original are
the discussion of the motif of father/son piety and commemoration
and the contrast of Virgil's fortuna in Roman history and
Boccaccio's in world history. Daisy Delogu's article on Christine
de Pizan is a timely one, and also represents reengagement with
history th
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