Item Number: 135061 Title: Textual and Visual Representations of Power and Justice in Medieval France : Manuscripts and Early Printed Books Author: Brown-Grant, Rosalind (et al) Price: Not Available ISBN: 9781472415707 Description: Farnham: Ashgate, 2015. 25cm., hardcover, 322pp., 110 color illus. Contents: Introduction, Rosalind Brown-Grant; Translating power for the Princes of the Blood: Laurent de Premierfait’s Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes, Anne D. Hedeman; How to wield power with justice: the 15th-century Roman de Florimont as a Burgundian ‘Mirror for Princes’, Rosalind Brown-Grant; The just captain in the Jouvencel by Jean de Bueil, Michelle Szkilnik; Reconfiguring queen truth in Paris, BnF, Ms. fr. 22542 (Songe du vieil pelerin), Kristin Bourassa; Allegorical design and political image-making in late medieval France, Cynthia J. Brown; The Wolf, the shepherd, and the whale: critiquing the king through metaphor in the reign of Louis XI, Lydwine Scordia; Passing sentence: variations on the figure of the judge in French political, legal, and historical texts from the 13th to the 15th century, Barbara Denis-Morel; The judge and the martyr: images of power and justice in religious manuscripts from the 12th to the 15th centuries, Maïté Billoré and Esther Dehoux; Beastly power, holy justice in late medieval France: from Robert Gobin’s Loups ravissans to Books of Hours, Mary Beth Winn; The queen on trial: spectacle of innocence, performance of beauty, Yasmina Foehr-Janssens; Claude of France: justice, power, and the queen as advocate for her people, Kathleen Wilson-Chevalier; List of manuscripts and early printed editions cited.
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