English Knights, French Books, and Malory’s Narrator

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. The Current State of Research on Late-Medieval Drama: 1998–2000. Survey, Bibliography, and Reviews 1
4. History or Fiction? The Role of Doubt in Antoine de La Sale’s ‘Le Paradis de la royne Sibille’ 37
5. Drawing Conclusions: the Poetics of Closure in Alain Chartier’s Verse 51
6. Widows: Their Social and Moral Functions According to Medieval German Literature, with Special Emphasis on Erhart Gross’s ‘Witwenbuch’ (1446) 65
7. Robert Henryson’s Pastoral Burlesque ‘Robene and Makyne’ (c.1470) 80
8. Late-Medieval Merchants: History, Education, Mentality, and Cultural Significance 97
9. Grandeur et modernité de Philippe de Commynes (1447–1511) 111
10. Who Witnessed and Narrated the ‘Banquet of the Pheasant’ (1454)? A Codicological Examination of the Account’s Five Versions 124
11. Medications Recommended in Incunabula 138
12. English Knights, French Books, and Malory’s Narrator 148
13. Quatre figures féminines apocryphes dans certains Mystères de la Passion en France 173
14. Die Bibel in der spätmittelalterlichen religiösen Gebrauchsliteratur 184
15. Conter et juger dans les ‘Arrêts d’Amour’ de Martial d’Auvergne (c. 1460) 199
16. L’Argent: cette nouvelle merveille des merveilles dans la version en prose de la ‘Chanson d’Esclarmonde’ (1454) 212
17. Magic and Superstition in a Fifteenth-Century Student Notebook 224
18. Book Reviews 242