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[Journal].
Yale French Studies: Special issue.
Daniel Poirion and Nancy Freeman Regalado, eds. Contexts: Style and Values in Medieval Art and Literature.
Published New Haven: Yale U.P., 1991.
ISBN 0300050348;
ISBN-13 9780300050349.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printer: Vail-Ballou Press, Binghampton.
Size: 154x233x22mm.
Page count: 290pp.
Main language: English; quotations generally given with a following translation.
Overall condition good: this copy has some scuffs and creases on the covers, not too severe, a bit of wear on the edges with the corners starting to rub, back cover a bit yellowed with age; the spine is not creased from reading and the text appears to be free of marking.

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Weight without packaging: 493g.

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Contents:
Cahn, Medieval landscape & the encyclopedic tradition;
Seidel, Value of verisimilitude in Jan van Eyck;
Brownlee, Image of history in Christine de Pizan's Livre de la Mutacion de Fortune;
Hicks, Le Livre des trois Vertus of Christine de Pizan — Beinecke MS. 427;
Vance, Soldier to pilgrim in the Song of Roland;
Fassler, Representations of time in Ordo representacionis Ade;
Hindman, King Arthur, his knights, & the French aristocracy in Picardy;
Nichols, Marie de France’s commonplaces;
Camille, Gothic signs & the surplus — the kiss on the cathedral;
Thomasset, “Truthfulness” in the French version of Pratique by Maître Bernard de Gordon;
Evans, Music, text & social context — reexamining 13th‑c. styles;
Nouvet, Dangerous resemblances — Romance of the Rose;
Berthelot, Other-World incarnate — “Chastel Mortel” & “Chastel des Armes” in the Perlesvaus;
Cerquiglini-Toulet, Shortages & the storehouses of lyric treasure in the 14th & 15th cc.;
Huot, Myths of desire & creativity in the poetry of Jean Froissart;
Newels, From narrative style to dramatic style in Les Moralités;
Zink, The time of the plague & the order of writing — Jean le Bel, Froissart, Machaut;
Poirion, Afterword.

Illustrations: 59, monochrome
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: no

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