Introduction: reassessing late medieval romance
1: 'Récits d'armes et/ou d'amour': love, prowess and chivalric
masculinity
2: Youthful folly in boys and girls: idyllic romance and the perils
of adolescence in Pierre de Provence and Paris et Vienne
3: Husbands and wives in marital romance: the trials of male
adultery, bigamy, and repudiation
4: Incestuous desire versus marital love: rewriting the tale of the
'maiden without hands' in versions of the Manekine and the Roman du
Comte d'Anjou
Conclusion: romance in a moralising culture
Bibliography
Rosalind Brown-Grant was educated at the University of Manchester
where she took a BA in French and Italian (1986) and was also later
awarded a Ph.D for her thesis on the fifteenth-century writer
Christine de Pizan (1994). Currently Senior Lecturer in French at
the University of Leeds, she specialises in the teaching of
medieval French literature at both undergraduate and postgraduate
levels. Her published work includes Christine de Pizan and the
Moral Defence
of Women: Reading beyond Gender (CUP, 1999), a translation of
Christine de Pizan's Book of the City of Ladies (Penguin Classics,
1999), and numerous articles in scholarly journals and edited
volumes on
Christine de Pizan and, more recently, late medieval French
romance. She is currently preparing a major new research project on
narration in Burgundian historiography.
This book's close engagement with romance, gender, and broader
social discourses should make it a valuable contribution to both
medieval gender studies and current research into the culture of
the later Middle Ages.
*Laura J. Campbell, French Studies*
A superb handbook of late-medieval prose French romance.
*Speculum*
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