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001 2015002623
003 DLC
005 20151009084047.0
008 150518s2015 enka b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2015002623
020 $a9781472415707 (hardback : alkaline paper)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
043 $ae-fr---
050 00 $aDC60$b.T38 2015
082 00 $a303.30944/0902$223
245 00 $aTextual and Visual Representations of Power and Justice in Medieval France :$bManuscripts and Early Printed Books /$cedited by Rosalind Brown-Grant, Anne D. Hedeman, and Bernard Ribémont.
264 1 $aFarnham, Surrey :$bAshgate,$c[2015]
300 $axviii, 322 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
520 2 $a"Thoroughly interdisciplinary in approach, this volume examines how concepts such as the exercising of power, the distribution of justice, and transgression against the law were treated in both textual and pictorial terms in works produced and circulated in medieval French manuscripts and early printed books. The essays analyse a wide variety of texts to offer new insights into the ways in which the language and imagery of politics and justice permeated medieval French culture"--Provided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 279-307) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction / Rosalind Brown-Grant (University of Leeds) -- Translating power for the princes of the blood : Laurent de Premierfait's Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes / Anne D. Hedeman (University of Kansas) -- How to wield power with justice : the fifteenth-century Roman de Florimont as a Burgundian "Mirror for princes" / Rosalind Brown-Grant (University of Leeds) -- The just captain in the Jouvencel by Jean de Bueil / Michelle Szkilnik (Université de Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle) -- Reconfiguring Queen Truth in Paris, BnF, Ms. fr. 22542 (Songe du Vieil Pelerin) / Kristin Bourassa (University of York) -- Allegorical design and political image-making in late medieval France / Cynthia J. Brown (University of California, Santa Barbara) -- The wolf, the shepherd, and the whale : critiquing the King through metaphor in the reign of Louis XI / Lydwine Scordia (Université de Rouen) -- Passing sentence : variations on the figure of the judge in French political, legal, and historical texts from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century / Barbara Denis-Morel (Bibliothèque d'Avranches) -- The judge and the martyr : images of power and justice in religious manuscripts from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries / Maïté Billoré (Université de Lyon 3) and Esther Dehoux (Université de Lille 3 Charles-de-Gaulle) -- Beastly power, holy justice in late medieval France : from Robert Gobin's Loups ravissans to Books of hours / Mary Beth Winn (State University of New York, Albany) -- The Queen on trial : spectacle of innocence, performance of beauty / Yasmina Foehr-Janssens (Université de Genève) -- Claude of France : justice, power, and the Queen as advocate for her people / Kathleen Wilson-Chevalier (American University of Paris) -- List of manuscripts and early printed editions cited.
651 0 $aFrance$xPolitics and government$y987-1328$vSources.
651 0 $aFrance$xPolitics and government$y1328-1589$vSources.
651 0 $aFrance$xSocial conditions$y987-1515$vSources.
650 0 $aPower (Social sciences) in literature.
650 0 $aJustice in literature.
650 0 $aPower (Social sciences) in art.
650 0 $aJustice in art.
650 0 $aFrench literature$yTo 1500$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aManuscripts, French.
650 0 $aEarly printed books$zFrance.
700 1 $aBrown-Grant, Rosalind,$eeditor.
700 1 $aHedeman, Anne Dawson,$eeditor.
700 1 $aRibémont, Bernard,$eeditor.