ISBN:
9781315241579
,
9781351895446
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xviii, 322 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
303.309440902
Keywords:
Power (Social sciences) in literature
;
Justice in literature
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Power (Social sciences) in art
;
Justice in art
;
French literature History and criticism To 1500
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Manuscripts, French
;
Early printed books
;
France Sources Politics and government 1328-1589
;
France Sources Politics and government 987-1328
;
France Sources Social conditions 987-1515
Abstract:
1. Translating power for the princes of the blood : Laurent de Premierfait's Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes / Anne D. Hedeman -- 2. How to wield power with justice : the fifteenth-century Roman de Florimont as a Burgundian "Mirror for princes" / Rosalind Brown-Grant -- 3. The just captain in the Jouvencel by Jean de Bueil / Michelle Szkilnik -- 4. Reconfiguring Queen Truth in Paris, BnF, Ms. fr. 22542 (Songe du Vieil Pelerin) / Kristin Bourassa -- 5. Allegorical design and political image-making in late medieval France / Cynthia J. Brown -- 6. The wolf, the shepherd, and the whale : critiquing the King through metaphor in the reign of Louis XI / Lydwine Scordia -- 7. 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 -- 8. The judge and the martyr : images of power and justice in religious manuscripts from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries / Maïté Billoré and Esther Dehoux -- 9. Beastly power, holy justice in late medieval France : from Robert Gobin's Loups ravissans to Books of hours / Mary Beth Winn -- 10. The queen on trial : spectacle of innocence, performance of beauty / Yasmina Foehr-Janssens -- 11. Claude of France : justice, power, and the Queen as advocate for her people / Kathleen Wilson-Chevalier.
DOI:
10.4324/9781315241579
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