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A Companion to Chrétien de Troyes(Reprint)
(Arthurian Studies)
by Norris J. Lacy, Joan Tasker Grimbert, D.S.Brewer
Paperback, 260 Pages, Published 2008 by D.S.Brewer
ISBN-13: 978-1-84384-161-6, ISBN: 1-84384-161-4






A Companion to Chrétien de Troyes
(Arthurian Studies)
by Norris J. Lacy, Joan Tasker Grimbert
Hardcover, 260 Pages, Published 2005 by D.S.Brewer
ISBN-13: 978-1-84384-050-3, ISBN: 1-84384-050-2






Performance, Poetry and Politics on the Queen's Day
Catherine de Médicis and Pierre de Ronsard at Fontainebleau
by Virginia Scott, Sara Sturm-Maddox
277 Pages, Published 2017 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-351-91216-7, ISBN: 1-351-91216-X

"Guy Spielmann suggests that: le spectacle ... politique a pour but d'asseoir et de légitimer l'autorité royale à travers la pratique ostentatoire de rites qui en revivifient le caractère mystique et affirment la valeur messianique d'un règne dont la finalité est le rétablissement sur la terre d'un ordre natural primordial et perdu. L'Arcadie et son homologue, l'Age d'or, constituent les deux référents mythiques et mythologiques de ..."






Medieval French Alexander, The
by Donald Maddox, Sara Sturm-Maddox
305 Pages, Published 2012 by Suny Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-8832-4, ISBN: 0-7914-8832-2

"On the one hand, the intervention of Betys of Gadres is linked with the siege ofTyre: he comes to the rescue of the city besieged by Alexander. On the other ... origins ofwarriors, as well as of their mounts (L. 70); the motif of the message to be delivered (L. 48); the motif of the besieged city; the planctus (L. 17 and 55) and the motif of bereavement (L. 18 and 25); the leader's exhortation on the battlefield (L. 45); the courtl ..."






Petrarch's Laurels
by Sara Sturm-Maddox
Published 2010 by Penn State Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-271-04074-5, ISBN: 0-271-04074-2

"collection, in verses that bear a distant echo of the Scriptural celebration of the Divine Advent — "or di picciol borgo un sol n'a dato" — Petrarch announces not the lumen Christi but the birth of Laura, the advent of the lady whose light will illumine his personal world.28 The suggestion is disquieting, and particularly so, as Peter Hainsworth notes, in the resolution of such hyperbolic compliment into the bare literal identifica ..."






The Expansion and Transformations of Courtly Literature
by Joseph T. Snow, Nathaniel B. Smith, Donald Maddox, Sara Sturm-Maddox, John M. Bowers, Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner, William Calin, Lowanne E. Jones, Winifred Gleason Keaney, William Melczer, Florence H. Ridley, Terence Scully, Friederike Wiesmann-Wiedemann, Eugène Vinaver, William Kibler, William Provost, Edmund Reiss, Robert Benson, Carleton Carroll, Susanna P. Coy, Costanzo Di Girolamo, Denton Fox, Patrick Gallacher, Christian J. Gellinek, John Howard, Peter Jorgensen, Norris Lacy, Charles Lower, Suzanne Macrae, Barbara Miller, Thomas Polk, Lewis Sumberg, P. A. Thomas
Paperback, 248 Pages, Published 2008 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3263-5, ISBN: 0-8203-3263-1

"A. T. Hatto (Baltimore: Penguin, i960). All other translations are mine. Each quotation is followed by a verse reference to the original text or a page reference for the Prose Tristan and, for Eilhart, Thomas, and Gottfried, a page reference to the respective translation. 11. This interpretation differs fundamentally from that of W. T.. 3. Jean Marx, "Observations sur un episode de la legende de Tristan," in Recueil de travaux offe ..."






Performance, Poetry and Politics on the Queen's Day
(Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama)
by Virginia Scott, Sara Sturm-Maddox
Hardcover, 278 Pages, Published 2007 by Ashgate
ISBN-13: 978-0-7546-5839-9, ISBN: 0-7546-5839-2

"This collaborative, interdisciplinary study explores a variety of issues in theatrical and literary history that converge in two performances given at the palace of Fontainebleau on 13 February 1564. Part of the fabled "Fetes de Fontainebleau", this carnival Sunday entertainment was produced at the behest of Catherine de Medicis and created by courtiers and artists including Pierre de Ronsard, the greatest lyric poet of the French sixte ..."






The Medieval French Alexander
by Donald Maddox, Sara Sturm-Maddox
Published 2002
ISBN-13: 978-0-585-47617-9, ISBN: 0-585-47617-9






Ronsard, Petrarch, and the Amours(1st Edition)
by Sara Sturm-Maddox
Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 1999 by University Press Of Florida
ISBN-13: 978-0-8130-1721-1, ISBN: 0-8130-1721-1

""An engaging and provocative study of how Ronsard has written not merely like Petrarch but quite literally as Petrarch, assuming the persona of the great Italian master while appropriating and manipulating his story."--JoAnn DellaNeva, University of Notre DameThis comparative study focuses on the shaping influence of Italy’s greatest Renaissance poet, Francesco Petrarca, on the lyric collections of France’s most celebrated Renaissance p ..."






Dante and Petrarch
The Earthly Paradise Revisited
by Sara Sturm-Maddox
Paperback, 28 Pages, Published 1999 by Bernardo Lecture Series
ISBN-13: 978-1-58684-000-6, ISBN: 1-58684-000-2

"Dante and Petrarch: The Earthly Paradise Revisited is the seventh in a series of publications occasioned by the annual Bernardo Lecture at the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies (CEMERS) at Binghamton University. This series offers public lectures which have been given by distinguished medieval and Renaissance scholars on topics and figures representative of these two important historical, religious, and intellectual peri ..."






Froissart Across the Genres
by Sara Sturm-Maddox, Donald Maddox
Published 1998
ISBN-13: 978-0-8130-2295-6, ISBN: 0-8130-2295-9






Garland Library of Medieval Literature Ser.
Jean D'Arras : Roman de Melusine
by Sara Sturm-Maddox, Donald Maddox, Sturm-Maddox.
Hardcover, 350 Pages, Published 1997 by Garland Science
ISBN-13: 978-0-8153-1180-5, ISBN: 0-8153-1180-X






Literary Aspects of Courtly Culture
Selected Papers from the 7th Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society, University of Massachusetts, Amherts, 27 July-1 August, 1992
by Donald Maddox, Sara Sturm-Maddox
360 Pages, Published 1994
ISBN-13: 978-1-85991-406-9, ISBN: 1-85991-406-3






Petrarch's Laurels(1st Edition)
by Sara Sturm-Maddox
Hardcover, 309 Pages, Published 1992 by Pennsylvania State Univ Pr (Txt)
ISBN-13: 978-0-271-00822-6, ISBN: 0-271-00822-9

"A comprehensive new reading of Petrarch's lyric collection known as the Canzoniere or Rime sparse, the work that stands at the origins of the dominant tradition of European Renaissance poetry. Unlike many other considerations of Petrarch's poetry, this study takes into account through close reading the vast majority of the 366 poems included in the collection. At the same time it adopts a range of intertextual perspectives. It emphasize ..."






Petrarch's Metamorphoses(1st Edition)
Text and Subtext in the "Rime Sparse"
by Sara Sturm-Maddox
Hardcover, 184 Pages, Published 1985 by University Of Missouri Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8262-0449-3, ISBN: 0-8262-0449-X






The Medieval French Alexander
(SUNY series in Medieval Studies)
by Donald Maddox, Sara Sturm-Maddox
Paperback, 305 Pages, Published 2002 by Suny Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-5444-2, ISBN: 0-7914-5444-4

"Alexander the Great was one of the legendary Nine Worthies in the medieval canon of ancient and modern heroes, and medieval writers exploited his legend in a wide variety of literary and didactic texts. Addressing the classical legacy to the Middle Ages as expressed in four centuries of vernacular narratives, this volume offers the first systematic collective study of Alexander the Great s thematic prominence in medieval culture. Contri ..."






Medieval French Alexander the
(Suny Series in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (Hardcover))
by Donald Maddox, Sara Sturm-Maddox
Hardcover, 305 Pages, Published 2002 by State University Of New York Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-5443-5, ISBN: 0-7914-5443-6

"Alexander the Great was one of the legendary Nine Worthies in the medieval canon of ancient and modern heroes, and medieval writers exploited his legend in a wide variety of literary and didactic texts. Addressing the classical legacy to the Middle Ages as expressed in four centuries of vernacular narratives, this volume offers the first systematic collective study of Alexander the Great s thematic prominence in medieval culture. Contri ..."






Lorenzo De Medici
(World Authors)
by Sara Sturm-Maddox, Sara De'medici. Sturm
Hardcover, 174 Pages, Published 1975 by Twayne Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-0-8057-2609-1, ISBN: 0-8057-2609-8

"Because the narrator has become the protagonist, and a humble protagonist far removed from Lorenzo's own state, the ... The enamored shepherd's down-to- earth expressions of his love, and particularly his descriptions of Nencia, can ... and inside there are two rows of teeth, that are whiter than a horse's; on both sides she has more than twenty" (IV, 1-4). ... The key to this attitude lies in the fact that the comic exaggerations ..."






Froissart Across the Genres(1st Edition)
by Donald Maddox, Sara Sturm-Maddox
Hardcover, 225 Pages, Published 1998 by University Press Of Florida
ISBN-13: 978-0-8130-1619-1, ISBN: 0-8130-1619-3

""An impressive collection of essays which attest to the range and variety of Froissart’s literary output. . . . [It] ranges not only ‘across the genres’ but also across the ateliers that subsequently reproduced Froissart’s works in manuscript."--Laurence de Looze, University of Western OntarioOffering a new and comprehensive assessment of the works of Jean Froissart, one of the most engaging and prolific authors of the 14th century, thi ..."






Melusine of Lusignan(1st Edition)
Founding Fiction in Late Medieval France
by Donald Maddox, Sara Sturm-Maddox
Hardcover, 312 Pages, Published 1996 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-1823-3, ISBN: 0-8203-1823-X

"This volume of original essays is the first collection devoted to the monumental "Roman de Melusine" (1393) by Jean d'Arras. A masterwork of late fourteenth-century French prose fiction, Melusine tells of the powerful medieval dynasty of Lusignan from its founding as a city by the legendary Melusine, an enigmatic fairy-figure subject to periodic monstrous transformations, through its expansion in Europe and the Near East, to its ultimat ..."



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