Annual volume of essays, focusing on the literary genres of drama, poetry, prose, and romance.
Fifteenth-Century Studies offers essays on diverse aspects of the period, including liberal and fine arts, historiography, medicine, and religion. The standard survey of drama research leads off the present volume. Ten essays follow, involving France, Spain, Germany, England, and Finland. Essays deal with love poetry, laughter and manhood in
Jehan de Saintré, a new dating of
Sir Gawein and the Green Knight, German eschatological theater, portrayals of Christ’s healing of the lame man on the York stage, translation during the Middle Spanish period, the end of the persecution of witches, and late medieval executioners. Book reviews and an index of volumes 21 through 30 conclude the volume.
Contributors: Edelgard Dubruck, William Calin, Rocio Del Rio Fernandez, Leonardas Gerulaitis, Barbara Gusick, Sibylle Jefferis, Judy Kem, Hannele Kemettilä, Lynn T. Ramey, Carolyn King Stephens
Edelgard E. Dubruck is Professor Emerita at Marygrove College, Detroit, Michigan, and Barbara I. Gusick is Associate Professor at Troy State University Dothan.
Innehållsförteckning
The Current State of Research on Late-Medieval Drama: 2004-2006. Survey, Bibliography, and Reviews – Edelgard E. Du Bruck
Intertextual Play and the Game of Love: the
Belle Dame sans mercy Cycle – William Calin
Hans Sach’s
Tragedy of the Last Judgement 1558: Eschatological Theater in Germany – Edelgard E. Du Bruck
La traducción en le siglo XV: herramientos de trabajo, procedimientos, técnicas y métodos – Rocio del Río Fernández
Doctor Johann Weyer (1515-88) and Witchcraft – Leonardas V. Gerulaitis
Christ’s Healing of the Lame Man in the York Cycle’s
Entry into Jerusalem: Interpretive Challenges for the Newly Healed – Barbara I. Gusick
The German Collection of Saints’ Legends
Der Maget Krone (1473-75): Contents, Commentary, and Evaluation of Current Research – Prof. Sibylle Jefferis
Malebouche, Metaphors of Misreading, and the
Querelle des femmes in Jean Molinet’s
Roman de la Rose moralisé (1500) – Judy Kem
The Physiognomy and Mental Equipment of a Late-Medieval Hangman: A Chapter in Anthropological History – Hannele Klemettilä
Laughter and Manhood in the
Petit Jehan de Saintré (1456) – Lynn T. Ramey
The
Pentangle Hypothesis: A Dating History and Resetting of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight – Carolyn King Stephens
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