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 indi...

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