Textual and Visual Representations of Power and Justice in Medieval France
Subtitle: Manuscripts and Early Printed Books
By: edited by Rosalind Brown-Grant, Anne D. Hedeman, and Bernard Ribémont
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9781472415707
Subjects: Politics and government; Power (Social sciences) in art; History and criticism; Justice in art; Early printed books; Justice in literature; French literature; Sources; Social conditions; Power (Social sciences) in literature; French Manuscripts
Description: "Thoroughly interdisciplinary in approach, this volume examines how concepts such as the exercising of power, the distribution of justice, and transgression against the law were treated in both textual and pictorial terms in works produced and circulated in medieval French manuscripts and early printed books. The essays analyse a wide variety of texts to offer new insights into the ways in which the language and imagery of politics and justice permeated medieval French culture"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-307) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Rosalind Brown-Grant (University of Leeds); title: Translating power for the princes of the blood : Laurent de Premierfait's Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes / Anne D. Hedeman (University of Kansas); title: How to wield power with justice : the fifteenth-century Roman de Florimont as a Burgundian "Mirror for princes" / Rosalind Brown-Grant (University of Leeds); title: The just captain in the Jouvencel by Jean de Bueil / Michelle Szkilnik (Université de Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle); title: Reconfiguring Queen Truth in Paris, BnF, Ms. fr. 22542 (Songe du Vieil Pelerin) / Kristin Bourassa (University of York); title: Allegorical design and political image-making in late medieval France / Cynthia J. Brown (University of California, Santa Barbara); title: The wolf, the shepherd, and the whale : critiquing the King through metaphor in the reign of Louis XI / Lydwine Scordia (Université de Rouen); title: Passing sentence : variations on the figure of the judge in French political, legal, and historical texts from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century / Barbara Denis-Morel (Bibliothèque d'Avranches); title: The judge and the martyr : images of power and justice in religious manuscripts from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries / Maïté Billoré (Université de Lyon 3) and Esther Dehoux (Université de Lille 3 Charles-de-Gaulle); title: Beastly power, holy justice in late medieval France : from Robert Gobin's Loups ravissans to Books of hours / Mary Beth Winn (State University of New York, Albany); title: The Queen on trial : spectacle of innocence, performance of beauty / Yasmina Foehr-Janssens (Université de Genève); title: Claude of France : justice, power, and the Queen as advocate for her people / Kathleen Wilson-Chevalier (American University of Paris); title: List of manuscripts and early printed editions cited.