"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
""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 ..."
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
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
""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 ..."