{"product_id":"fifteenth-century-studies-35-9781571134264","title":"Fifteenth-Century Studies 35","description":"\u003cb\u003eAnnual volume of essays treating topics ranging from physical impairment to narrative afterlife and time.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe fifteenth century defies consensus on fundamental issues; most scholars agree, however, that the period outgrew the Middle Ages, that it was a time of transition and a passage to modern times. \u003ci\u003eFifteenth-Century Studies\u003c\/i\u003etreats diverse aspects of the period, including liberal and fine arts, historiography, medicine, and religion. Volume 35 addresses topics including physical impairments as depicted in surgical handbooks printed in Germany and as reflected through eyeglasses for the blind (a therapy proposed by French vernacular poets); literary constructions of women in de Meun's \u003ci\u003eCité des Dames\u003c\/i\u003e and in hagiographic legends of Spain; the evolution of the Order of theGarter as dramatized in Shakespeare; serious elements in French farces; the festival context of Villon's \u003ci\u003ePet-au-Deable\u003c\/i\u003e; Boethius in the late Middle Ages; \u003ci\u003eA Revelation of Purgatory\u003c\/i\u003e and Chaucer's Prioress; \u003ci\u003ePiers Plowman\u003c\/i\u003e in one British Library manuscript; and narrative afterlife and time in Henryson's \u003ci\u003eTestament of Cresseid.\u003c\/i\u003e Book reviews conclude the volume.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Contributors: Milagros Alameda-Irizarry, Chiara Benati, EdelgardE. DuBruck, Rosanne Gasse, Chelsea Honeyman, Noel Harold Kaylor Jr., James N. Ortego II, E. L. Risden, Julie Singer, Geri L. Smith, Martin W. Walsh. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Matthew Z. Heintzelman is Curator of the Austria\/Germany Study Center and Rare Book Cataloger at Hill Museum \u0026amp; Manuscript Library, Saint John's University, Minnesota; Barbara I. Gusick is Professor Emerita of English at Troy University Dothan; Martin W. Walsh is Head of the Drama Program at the University of Michigan's Residential College.","brand":"Matthew Z. Heintzelman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280264048891,"sku":"9781571134264","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781571134264.jpg?v=1772484894","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/fifteenth-century-studies-35-9781571134264","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}