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"This series [pushes] the boundaries of knowledge and [develops]
new trends in approach and understanding." ENGLISH HISTORICAL
REVIEW The essays in this volume explore relationships in all their
different guises and expressions. Hostility between England and
France cast a long shadow over the fifteenth century and beyond.
While warfare at sea and the composition of the army which invaded
Normandy in 1417 left extensive administrative records, sources of
a different nature highlight the experiences of the French and
Burgundians. The experience of the incursion of Henry VIII's forces
in 1513 found expression in widely-distributed poems; while verses
celebrating the births of heirs to the Hapsburg duke of Burgundy
sought to allay fears over a change of regime by stressing the
benefits of their multinational heritage. Portraits of rulers of
Italian states emphasised the emergence of a shared courtly culture
between England and Italy by commemorating their election as
Knights of the Garter, while the records of Bishop's Lynn testify
to the harmonious integration of immigrants from the Low Countries
and Baltic regions. The Magna Carta of 1215 - intended to place the
relationship between ruler and ruled on a new footing - had a long
after-life, providing a blue-print for practices adopted by the
Appellants of 1388 and being cited at the deposition of Richard II,
only to be eclipsed in the late fifteenth century when depositions
focused instead on challenges to the monarch's title. Poor records
of the meetings of convocations have led to undue emphasis on their
role in granting subsidies, but a register at Canterbury presents a
different picture by revealing business of the southern convocation
of 1462.
This book examines how the 'Manneken Pis' statue has come to
symbolize the Brussels city and focuses on the multiplicity of
interpretations to which the statue has been subjected. It explores
that celebratory uses of the statue and ones which articulate the
conflicts in society are related.
Manneken Pis, a fountain featuring a bronze child urinating, has
stood on the same Brussels street corner since at least the
mid-fifteenth century. Since there is no consensus on its meaning,
it has been used to express many different readings of social
relations in a complex city and nation state. It has formed part of
the festival culture of the city from royal entries to gay pride
but has also been exploited in conflicts arising out of war and
occupation, and the tensions inherent in modern Belgium. Drawing on
archives, histories, police reports, devotional literature,
ephemera and a wealth of other sources, Catherine Emerson examines
how one smaller-than-lifesized water source has come to embody a
certain sort of Brussels identity.
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.
The essays collected in this volume were selected from papers
presented at a conference organized at the National University of
Ireland, Galway in April 2004, on the subject of deceptive
relationships in French and Francophone literature and visual
culture. The collection examines specific representations and
enactments of deception in French art and literature from the
Middle Ages to the present. Divided into three thematic sections,
the book begins by focusing on the role of distortion in art and
literature, goes on to tackle the representation and practice of
manipulation in certain works, and finally turns to the function of
substitution in the construction and reception of artful
deceptions.
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