{"product_id":"amorous-games-james-woodrow-hassell-9780292729063","title":"Amorous Games: A Critical Edition of Les adevineaux amoureux","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmong the more interesting incunabula preserved in the Salle de la Réserve of the Bibliothèque National in Paris are the apparently unique copies of two editions, very similar in content, of a work entitled \u003ci\u003eLes Adevineaux amoureux\u003c\/i\u003e. In much more comprehensive form \u003ci\u003eLes Adevineaux amoureux\u003c\/i\u003e is preserved in a manuscript belonging to the Musée Conde at Chantilly. All three texts, in medieval French, appear to date from the 1470s. The present work, \u003ci\u003eAmorous Games\u003c\/i\u003e, is a critical edition of \u003ci\u003eLes Adevineaux amoureux\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmorous Games\u003c\/i\u003e is a miscellany whose principal unifying force is the compiler's aim to provide a manual of conversation and entertainment for polite society. Included are series of questions and answers belonging to the well-established medieval tradition of the \"Demandes amoureuses\"; a very large number of riddles, mainly folk riddles; and \"venditions en amours,\" little poems that apparently came into bing as part of a social game.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStudents of medieval French literature, particularly those with a penchant for some of the minor genres, will find new material in the \u003ci\u003eAmorous Games\u003c\/i\u003e. Folklorists will discover what is probably the largest collection of riddles bequeathed to us by medieval France and also much that is of value to specialists in the proverb and folk tale.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFor this critical edition of \u003ci\u003eLes Adevineaux amoureux\u003c\/i\u003e Professor Hassell has selected the Chantilly manuscript, because it is the most complete and also because it had not yet been published. The Appendix contains the text of the more complete of the two incunabula and the significant variants appearing in the other fifteenth-century printed edition. The manuscript text has been collated with that of the incunabula, and copious notes and an index to the riddles have been supplied. In his introduction Professor Hassell discusses in detail the major classes and subclasses of the riddle, drawing on the work of Petsch, Taylor, Abrahams, and other scholars of the genre.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James Woodrow Hassell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0292729065\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780292729063\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/1974\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.02lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d","brand":"James Woodrow Hassell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46906551763199,"sku":"9780292729063","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f60acb5f-7200-4261-b06d-7a0dbe191364.jpg?v=1748770758","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/amorous-games-james-woodrow-hassell-9780292729063","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}