Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 37 Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture: Literary Appropriations

by Clogan, Paul Maurice

• ISBN13: 9781442214279
• ISBN10: 1442214279
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-12-08
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

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 hardcover 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 36-Reviews-emphasizes new research in the field, with a particular focus on work from emerging scholars. Thus, this volume includes twenty-four reviews and three review articles of recent scholarly publications, along with five original articles. The first article "The Ultimate Transgression of the Courtly World" by Albrecht Classen analyzes German texts and melodies to reveal the social strife between the lower and upper classes. John Garrison's essay "One Mind, One Heart, One Purse," referencing the text Troilus and Criseyde, suggests that a medieval treatise on friendship is appropriate and engaging. Offering a solution to one of history's most vexing problems is John Bugbee's essay "Solving Dorigen Trilemma" by examining the tension between oath and law in the Franklin's and Physician's Tales. Karen Green's essay "What Were the Ladies in the City Reading? The Libraries of Christine de Pizaan's Contemporaries" provides a clearer insight into the intellect of Christine and her colleagues. Along with these articles, twenty-four reviews, from the United States and all over the world, are included, truly making Medievalia et Humanistica an international publication. To reflect the submissions and audience for Medievalia et Humanistica, the editorial and review boards have been expended to include ten members from the United States and ten international

Table of Contents

Editorial Note	p. ix
Manuscript Submission Guidelines	p. x
Articles for Future Volumes	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
The Oldest Manuscript Witness of the First Life of Blessed Francis ofAssisi	p. 1
Ironic Patterning and Numerical Composition in the Vie de saint Alexis: Form and Effect/Affect	p. 9
Rewriting Paternity: The Meaning of Renovating Westminster in La Estoire de seint Aedward le ret	p. 37
Boccaccio's Three Venuses: On the Convergence of Celestial and Transgressive Love in the Genealogie Deorum Gentilium Libri	p. 65
Dante's Justinian, Cino's Corpus: The Hermeneutics of Poetry and Law	p. 89
Dante's Appropriation of Lucan's Cato and Erichtho	p. 111
Alberico di Montecassino, Brevarium de dictamine	p. 117
Anlezark, Daniel, ed. and trans. The Old English Dialogues of Solomon and Saturn	p. 119
Averroes (Ibn Rushd) of Cordoba, Long Commentary on the De Anima of Aristotle	p. 121
Bailey, Lisa K. Christianity's Quiet Success: The Eusebius Gallicanus Sermon Collection and the Power of the Church in Late Antique Gaul	p. 123
Beechy, Tiffany, The Poetics of Old English	p. 125
Collins, David J., Reforming Saints: Saints' Lives and Their Authors in Germany, 1470-1530	p. 127
Dodds, Jerrilyn D., Maria Rosa Menocal, and Abigail Krasner Balbale, The Arts of Intimacy: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Making of Castilian Culture	p. 129
Ebbesen, Sten, Topics in Latin Philosophy from the 12th-14th Centuries: Collected Essays of Sten Ebbesen, Volume 2	p. 133
Fossier, Robert. The Axe and the Oath: Ordinary Life in the Middle Ages, Trans. Lydia G. Cochrane	p. 135
Howard, Deborah, and Laura Moretti, Sound and Space in Renaissance Venice: Architecture, Music, Acoustics	p. 138
Magennis, Hugh, and Mary Swan, eds., A Companion to Mlfric	p. 142
Oswald, Dana M., Monsters, Gender and Sexuality in Medieval English Literature	p. 144
Rasmussen, Ann Marie, and Sarah Westphal-Wihl, Ladies, Whores, and Holy Women: A Sourcebook in Courtly, Religious, and Urban Cultures of Late Medieval Germany	p. 146
Silver, Larry, and Elizabeth Wyckoff, eds., Grand Scale: Monumental Prints in the Age of Durer and Titian	p. 148
Books Received	p. 151
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