商品簡介
Medievalists and scholars of mostly French literature, many of them retired from active teaching now, explore mythic dimensions of the cultures, histories, and literatures of the medieval west. Among the offerings is a new edition and translation of the lay of Espervier (Sparrowhawk) with full scholarly paraphernalia. Another 11 explore such topics as youthful automata in three Old French poems, some literary devices in the Vie des Peres, Petrarch and the myth of Daedalus, uses and abuses of foundation legends as exemplified by Evesham Abbey, and St. Patrick's purgatory in French traveler accounts from the early modern period onwards. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
