Product Description: In recent years, scholars have increasingly acknowledged the range and value of the literary and artistic production of both France and Burgundy in the later Middle Ages. In this interdisciplinary collection of essays - the first to be devoted exclusively to works produced in these two cultural centres - contributors from the fields of art history and literary studies question established views on canonical texts such as the Roman de la rose, Ovide moralisé, Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles, and the Middle French translation of Ovid s Heroides...read more

Product Description: While French romances of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries have long enjoyed a privileged place in the literary history of France, romances from the later middle ages have been largely neglected by modern scholars, despite their central role in the chivalric culture of the day...read more

Product Description: Christine de Pizan's Livre de la Cité des Dames (1405) is justly renowned for its full-scale assault on the misogynist stereotypes that dominated the culture of the Middle Ages. Rosalind Brown-Grant locates the Cité in the context of Christine's defense of women as it developed over a number of years and through a range of different texts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Christine de Pizan's Livre de la Cité des Dames (1405) is justly renowned for its full-scale assault on the misogynist stereotypes that dominated the culture of the Middle Ages. Rosalind Brown-Grant locates the Cité in the context of Christine's defense of women as it developed over a number of years and through a range of different texts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)