The Waxing of the Middle Ages : : Revisiting Late Medieval France / / ed. by Charles-Louis Morand-Métivier, Tracy Adams.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
• MitwirkendeR: Adams, Tracy,; Brown, Cynthia J.,; Brown, Cynthia,; Collard, Franck,; McRae, Joan E.,; McRae, Joan,; Morand-Métivier, Charles-Louis,; Nichols, Stephen G.,; Nichols, Stephen,; Pollock Renck, Anneliese,; Renck, Anneliese Pollock,; Rohr, Zita Eva,; Swift, Helen,; Tarnowski, Andrea,; Whaley, Derek R.,; Whaley, Derek,
• HerausgeberIn: Adams, Tracy,; Morand-Métivier, Charles-Louis,
• Place / Publishing House: Newark : : University of Delaware Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: The Early Modern Exchange
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (284 p.) :; 19 color, 1 b-w image

Johan Huizinga’s much-loved and much-contested Autumn of the Middle Ages, first published in 1919, encouraged an image of the Late French Middle Ages as a flamboyant but empty period of decline and nostalgia. Many studies, particularly literary studies, have challenged Huizinga’s perceptions of individual works or genres. Still, the vision of the Late French and Burgundian Middle Ages as a sad transitional phase between the High Middle Ages and the Renaissance persists. Yet, a series of exceptionally significant cultural developments mark the period. The Waxing of the Middle Ages sets out to provide a rich, complex, and diverse study of these developments and to reassert that late medieval France is crucial in its own right. The collection argues for an approach that views the late medieval period not as an afterthought, or a blind spot, but as a period that is key in understanding the fluidity of time, traditions, culture, and history. Each essay explores some “cultural form,” to borrow Huizinga’s expression, to expose the false divide that has dominated modern scholarship.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Working with Huizinga’s Legacy -- Chapter one. Color Values, or Life with Grey -- Chapter two. Jean de Meun and Visual Eroticism in Fifteenth-Century Culture -- Chapter three. Jean Chartier and the End of the Historical Tradition at Saint-Denis -- Chapter four. “Present en sa personne” -- Chapter five. Rethinking Patronage in Late Medieval France -- Chapter six. The Rhétoriqueurs and the Transition from Manuscript to Print -- Chapter seven. François Villon and France -- Chapter eight. La Belle Dame of Chartier Manuscripts -- Chapter nine. Agnès Sorel, Celebrity, and Late Medieval French Visual Culture -- Chapter ten. No Job for a Man -- Conclusion: French Historians in Search of the Historiographical Identity of the French Fifteenth Century -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index