Fifteenth-Century Studies Vol. 32

The current volume, designed as a tribute to Edelgard E. DuBruck, focuses on the importance and praise of late-medieval women.

The current volume, designed as a tribute to Edelgard E. DuBruck, focuses on the importance and praise of late-medieval women.

Founded in 1977 as the publication organ for the Fifteenth-Century SymposiaFifteenth-Century Studies offers essays on diverse aspects of the 15th century, including liberal and fine arts, historiography, medicine, and religion. Designed as aFestschrift honoring Edelgard E. DuBruck, the current volume focuses on the importance and praise of late-medieval women. Topics include Christine de Pizan's response to Boccaccio'sDe Mulieribus Claris, the figures of Melibea and Celestina inLa Celestina, Catalan love poetry, the Nine Muses in Le Franc'sChampion des Dames, and artistic praise of the Virgin Mary. Other topics include a wellness guide for late-medieval seniors, women's sins of the tongue and Villon'sTestament, the stoic tradition seen in a farewell letter, medicine and magic, and book-burning. An article demonstrates Bertrand Du Guesclin's extraordinary valor, and two essays on Chaucer explore chivalry and violence inThe Knight's Tale and Troilus's withdrawal at the end ofTroilus and Criseyde.

Contributors: Melitta Weiss Adamson, Gery B. Blumenshine, KarenCasebier, Edelgard E. Dubruck, Olga Anna Duhl, Barbara I. Gusick, Jamie Leanos, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Christiane Raynaud, Roxana Recio, Barbara N. Sargent-Baur, Karen Elaine Smyth, Steven Millen Taylor, Arjo Vanderjagt, Elizabeth I. Wade-Sirabian, Karl A. Zaenker

Edelgard E. DuBruck is Professor Emerita at Marygrove College, Detroit, Michigan, and Barbara I. Gusick is Professor at Troy University-Dothan, Dothan, Alabama.

Preface I - Barbara I. Gusick
Preface II - Jean Dufournet
Wellness Guides for Seniors in the Middle Ages - Melitta Weiss Adamson
Sources and Meaning of the Marian Hemicycle Windows at Évreux: Mosaics, Sculpture, and Royal Patronage in Fifteenth-Century France - Gary B. Blumenshine
Re-Writing Lucretia: Chrsitine de Pizan's Response to Boccaccio'sDe Mulieribus Claris - Karen Casebier
Vernacular Translation and the Sins of the Tongue: From Brant'sStultifera Navis (1494) to Droyn'sLa Nef des folles (c.1498)(c.1498) - Olga Anna Duhl
La Celestina: Philocaptio o apetito carnal? - Jaime Leanos
"As Olde Stories Tellen Us": Chivalry, Violence, and Geoffrey Chaucer's Critical Perspective inThe Knight's Tale - Ilan Mitchell-Smith
Portrait d'une carrière extraordinaire: Bertrand Du Guesclin, chef du guerre modèle, dans laChronique anonyme dite des Cordeliers (c.1432) (c.1432) - Christiane Raynaud
Humanismo en la Corona de Aragón: el Manuscrito 229 de la Biblioteca - Roxana Recio
False Starts and Ambiguous Clues in François Villon'sTestament (1461) - Barbara N. Sargent-Baur
Reassessing Chaucer's Cosmological Discourse at the End ofTroilusand Criseyde (c.1385)* - Karen Elaine Smyth
Down to Earth and Up to Heaven: The Nine Muses in Martin Le Franc'sLe Champion des Dames - Steven Millen Taylor
Guillaume Hugonet's Farewell Letter to His Wife on April 3, 1477: "My Fortune is Such that I Expect to Die Today and to Depart this World" - Arjo Vanderjagt
Fifteenth-Century Medicine and Magic at the University of Heidelberg - Elizabeth Wade-Sirabian
Book-Burning: The Saint Brendan Story in the Light of Christian Tradition - Karl Zaenker