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Includes all of Jehan Froissart's lyric poetry. McGregor includes explanatory notes, significant or noteworthy variants, as well as a useful glossary and an appendix of lyric forms found in Froissart's narrative poems.

A transcription of the previously unpublished seventeenth-century manuscript now in the possession of the Hispanic Society of America formerly known as the "Cancioneiro hispano-portugues da Academia das Ciencias, Lisboa". The volume is of importance to scholars of Spanish and Portuguese poetry of the Classical period, 1500-1700.

A psychological interpretation of Marie de France's Guigemar, a lai that uses the legend of Hercules as a vehicle for her ideas on love and duty in society.

Florence L. Yudin explores the theme of silence in Jorge Guillen's Aire nuestro.

Provides an analysis of how visual variety and grandeur are intrinsic and artistically well-conceived elements of the work of Rabelais, and that they develop naturally from the Renaissance outlook on the world.

In this volume Judith Rice Rothschild offers close readings and comparisons of the Lais in order to examine Marie de France's narrative technique.

Artus Desire, whose career extended from 1545 to at least 1578, was the author of more than twenty theological treatises and anti-Protestant pamphlets. In this volume Frank S. Giese provides the first comprehensive study of Artus Desire and his work.

This study shows how Osuna uses mystical symbolism and allegory in his own writing and in the methods of meditation and contemplation he teaches.

The word peregrinacion permeates Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese literature, and can be described as wandering, alienation, and exile, combined with pious devotion. Complementing the work of Antonio Vilanova, Juergen Hahn's study of peregrinacion focuses on Spanish literature of the Golden Age.

Based on contemporary sources and recent authoritative scholarship, this analytical index brings together in concise form the available information concerning each of the persons and works named or alluded to in Sainte-Beuve's most-discussed book. The introduction, index, notes, and appendixes are in French.

This volume was presented to Professor Engstrom in celebration of his sixty-fifth birthday. Its sixteen studies, contributed by colleagues, friends, and former students, move from the late Urban T. Holmes's article on the Middle Ages down to the nineteenth century, with articles encompassing various aspects of French, Spanish, and Italian literatures.

An edition of an anonymous poem about the famous thirteenth-century outlaw Eustache surnamed Le Moine (ca. 1170-1217), son of the Boulonnais nobleman Baudoin Busket, that survives in a single manuscript. Conlon's introduction explores the historical background, summarizes the content of the poem, analyzes its language and explains the editorial policy. Notes, an Appendix containing historical and literary texts that mention Eustache le Moine, a "Table des noms propres, noms de lieu," etc., a "Glossaire" and a "Bibliographie" conclude the edition.

One of the most colourful episodes in Moliere's career was the so-called Comic War, the controversy provoked by the successful production of L'Ecole des Femmes. Among the ultimately unsuccessful attempts by rival dramatists to discredit him and his theatre, the three comedies published in this volume were particularly notable.

The Innamorato, predecessor to Ariosto's Orlando furioso, has been known in the English-speaking world since the sixteenth century, in both Italian and English translations. This study was the first in English to be devoted exclusively to an examination of this Renaissance epic, which is one of the major poetic creations of the Italian Quattrocento.

The legend of the Siete infantes de Lara has rarely been a part of the Spanish curriculum in American universities, mainly because of the lack of reliable and informative texts on the subject. This volume comprises a study of the legend's aspects, a comparison of the epic's various versions, and an edition of the lost epic from the Refundici toledana de la cronica de 1344.

Paul Archambault explores the evolution of Camus' attitude toward Hellenism and Christianity as seen through his writing. The author considers problems as disparate as Camus' use and misuse of Aeschylus and the Presocratics, his ambivalent appraisal of Socrates, the "Plotinian" nature of his aesthetics, his identification of Christianity with Augustinian theology, and the Gnostic resonance of his characteristic ideas.

This story concerns the capture by Alexander's forces of the city of Milide. As an example of courtly literature, Le Parfait combines, curiously, aristocratic refinement with descriptions of violent and bloody battles. The critical apparatus includes an introduction, linguistic study, variants, notes, glossary, and index of proper names.

Opening a new perspective on Malherbe's major poems, this volume focuses on their design and meaning. In his introduction Rubin defines and illustrates implied comparison. There follows a series of explications which recover each poem's values from analogies concealed in images or motif patterns. The work concludes with a description of formal constants and variables in the six completed odes.

David O'Connell's study seeks to serve as the final word on which version of the Enseignements de saint Louis can claim ultimate authenticity. Through an analytical comparison of the three families of the Teachings and a historical overview of the critical controversy surrounding the texts, O'Connell argues for the authority and historicity of the Noster manuscript.

After a discussion of the youth, education, and early writings of Canete, the author turns to the Madrid years with El Faro and later with El Haraldo. Canete's connection with the Academia Espanola is also discussed as is his response to the post-romantic era.

After a preface describing the purpose and content of this work, the author presents a lengthy bibliography of sources. The proper names in the lyrics of the troubadours follows. Frank M. Chambers' book endeavours to include all the proper names found in the lyric poems of the twelfth and thirteenth century poets known as the troubadours.

Provides commentary on Diderot's translation of Shaftesbury's An Inquiry Concerning Virtue or Merit. By comparing the translation and notes, Walters demonstrates the evolution of Diderot's thought and artistic skill. Walters discusses the difference between theism and deism, the question of universal order, and compares atheism with free thought.

This philological study examines the possible influence exerted by religious traditions on the origin and development of the secular lyrics of the troubadours. It includes an historical outline, a survey of theories concerning the origins, and an analysis of the troubadours' conception of love.

The importance of the troubadour Raimon Vidal as poet and grammarian has been recognised since the thirteenth century. This volume presents Vidal's long poem on the decline of the jongleur's art, along with a prose translation, notes, and an index of names mentioned in the poem.

Editing this work in the context of modern scholarship has involved many literary and linguistic problems left untouched by the Meyer edition of 1880. The present edition provides a new, accurate reading of the sole manuscript, supported by copious textual notes and chapters on versification, dating, and language of author and scribe.

The life of the great Cistercian, St. Bernard, was translated into Portuguese from the first three books of Sancti Bernardi Vita Prima at Alcobaca. The surviving fifteenth-century manuscript constitutes an important example of the scholarship of that famous monastic centre.

This volume is composed of fifteen essays on Hispanic subjects by scholars from the United States and abroad, and it was presented to Professor Adams in his seventieth year.

This volume is composed of articles by former students of Professor Holmes and presented to him in his sixty-fifth year. Most of the essays deal with medieval subjects or subjects very closely associated with the Middle Ages.

Published in 1963, this book gave historical context to the works of Camilo Jose Cela (1916-2002) who would go on to be awarded the Nobel prize in Literature in 1989.

This first English translation of the twelfth-century work retells the tale of King Arthur's court and the search for the Holy Grail. Linker's translation avoids false archaisms and presents a language that is strange and lovely from the medieval world. Originally published in 1952.