Product Description: The International Courtly Literature Society aims to promote the study of courtly literature, primarily, but not exclusively, of medieval Europe. The 45 articles selected here from the papers presented at the 5th Congress center around three themes: rhetoric and courtly literature, the audience of courtly literature, and courtly literature in a comparative perspective...read more

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Product Description: There are several reasons why the chronicle is particularly suited as the topic of a yearbook. In the first place there is its ubiquity: all over Europe and throughout the Middle Ages chronicles were written, both in Latin and in the vernacular, and not only in Europe but also in the countries neighbouring on it, like those of the Arabic world...read more

Product Description: There are several reasons why the chronicle is particularly suited as the topic of a yearbook. In the first place there is its ubiquity: all over Europe and throughout the Middle Ages chronicles were written, both in Latin and in the vernacular, and not only in Europe but also in the countries neighbouring on it, like those of the Arabic world...read more

Product Description: The Medieval Chronicle, vol. IX (2014) Contents v Contributors vii Preface ix Marie Bláhová 1 The Genealogy of the Czech Luxembourgs in Contemporary Historiography and Political Propaganda Maurizio Campanelli 33 The Anonimo Romano at his Desk: Recounting the Battle of Crécy in Fourteenth-Century Italy Judith Collard 79 Art and Science in the Manuscripts of Matthew Paris Irène Fabry-Tehranchi 117 La représentation du règne d'Arthur dans le manuscrit enluminé du Brut en prose, Londres, Lambeth Palace 6 (c...read more