Philippe de Mézières and His Age

Philippe de Mézières (1327-1405) was the quintessential man of all seasons of the fourteenth-century Mediterranean. A scholar, a soldier, a mystic, a man of affairs, a royal adviser and an incessant traveler around the Mediterranean, a prolific writer and an associate of religious orders, a champion of the crusade and no less an ardent advocate of peace in the West, a Frenchman, a Cypriot, and a Venetian citizen, he captures the spirit of his age like no other man. This volume, the first to address Philippe and his legacy comprehensively since 1896, gathers twenty-two contributions of original research shedding new light on Philippe’s literary, political, and mystical writings, and places him in the context of his age and his contemporaries.
Contributors are Michel Balard, Adrian Bell, Joël Blanchard, Kevin Brownlee, Evelien Chayes, Philippe Contamine, Anne Curry, Daisy Delogu, Peter Edbury, John France, Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas, Henri Gourinard, Michael Hanly, David Jacoby, Sharon Kinoshita, Anna Loba, Angel Nicolaou-Konnari, Sylvain Piron, Andrea Tarnowski, Stefan Vander Elst, Lori Walters, and David Wrisley.

Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Ph.D. (1980) in French Literature, Princeton, is Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Among her books are Reading Myth: Classical Mythology and its Interpretations in Medieval French Literature (1997) and Poets, Saints, and Visionaries of the Great Schism, 1378-1417 (2006).
Kiril Petkov, Ph.D.(2002) in Medieval History, NYU, is Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. He is the author of Infidels, Turks, and Women: The South Slavs in the German Mind (1997); The Kiss of Peace: Ritual, Self, and Society in the High and Late Medieval West (2003), and The Voices of Medieval Bulgaria, Seventh-Fifteenth Century: The Records of a Bygone Culture (2008).