Orthographies in Early Modern Europe
Orthographies in Early Modern Europe

Author: Susan Baddeley

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2012-07-30

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 3110288176

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This volume provides, for the first time, a pan-European view of the development of written languages at a key time in their history: that of the 16th century. The major cultural and intellectual upheavals that affected Europe at the time - Humanism, the Reformation and the emergence of modern nation-states - were not isolated phenomena, and the evolution of the orthographical systems of European languages shows a large number of convergences, due to the mobility of scholars, ideas and technological innovations throughout the period.

The Saint Between Manuscript and Print
The Saint Between Manuscript and Print

Author: Alison Knowles Frazier

Publisher:

Published: 2015-03

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780772721815

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"The essays in this volume examine the impact of printing on the expression, representation, and reproduction of sanctity on the Italian peninsula between 1400 and 1600 and how the imperatives of cult were expressed in various media, both old and new. In so doing, they advance a fuller and more nuanced understanding of both cult and media, and mark the nexus of cult and media as a site of cultural production and innovation. They are thus initial steps in a new area and an invitation to further study of saints of all sorts--canonized, popularly recognized, or self-proclaimed--in the fluid media environment of early modernity."--

Catalogue
Catalogue

Author: Hispanic Society of America. Library

Publisher:

Published: 1962

Total Pages: 1014

ISBN-13:

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La Belle Dame qui eust mercy and Le Dialogue d’amoureux et de sa dame
La Belle Dame qui eust mercy and Le Dialogue d’amoureux et de sa dame

Author: Joan Grenier-Winther

Publisher: MHRA

Published: 2018-09-28

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 1781882851

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La Belle Dame qui eust mercy and Le Dialogue d’amoureux et de sa dame are two late-medieval poems in which a courtly gentleman and lady debate the merits of his pleas for her affections. In both cases, the lady is recalcitrant, dismissing her suitor’s lovesickness as a trifle, denying that she ever gave any sign of encouragement, and wishing to protect her reputation. The lady in Le Dialogue never capitulates; in contrast, the Belle Dame ends by agreeing to her lover’s suit and imagining a future in which they will joyfully live together. Both poems merit serious attention for their kinship with Alain Chartier’s La Belle Dame sans mercy (1424) and other poems in the so-called “Belle Dame” cycle. Their presence in numerous fifteenth- and sixteenth-century manuscript and printed collections attests to their appeal in their day. Equally as significant is their unusual bipartite stanzaïc structure, suggesting amalgamation of separate poems and/or continuations of existing poems. Such an anomaly complicates attribution of authorship and dating, but close study of La Belle Dame qui eust mercy and Le Dialogue d’amoureux et de sa dame can only enhance our understanding of the process(es) of poetic composition, as well as the mise en page and reception of literary works, in the late Middle Ages.