The Waxing of the Middle Ages: Revisiting Late Medieval France by Morand-Métivier, Charles-Louis

The Waxing of the Middle Ages: Revisiting Late Medieval France (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781644532911)

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The Waxing of the Middle Ages: Revisiting Late Medieval France by Morand-Métivier, Charles-Louis

The Waxing of the Middle Ages: Revisiting Late Medieval France

$150.00
The Waxing of the Middle Ages: Revisiting Late Medieval France by Morand-Métivier, Charles-Louis

The Waxing of the Middle Ages: Revisiting Late Medieval France

$150.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Charles-Louis Morand-M騁ivier
ISBN-10: 1644532913
ISBN-13: 9781644532911
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Language: English
Published: 04/14/2023
Pages: 290
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.90lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.14w x 1.10d
By Charles-Louis Morand-M騁ivier
By Charles-Louis Morand-M騁ivier
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Tracy Adams is a professor in European languages and literatures at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is the author of Violent Passions: Managing Love in the Old French Verse Romance, The Life and Afterlife of Isabeau of Bavaria, Christine de Pizan and the Fight for France, and Agn鑚 Sorel and the French Monarchy: History, Gallantry, and National Identity. With Christine Adams, she edited Female Beauty Systems: Beauty as Social Capital in Western Europe and the US, Middle Ages to the Present and, also with Christine Adams, coauthored The Creation of the French Royal Mistress from Agn鑚 Sorel to Madame Du Barry.

Charles-Louis Morand-M騁ivier is an associate professor of French at the University of Vermont. He is coeditor, with Andreea Marculescu, of Affective and Emotional Economies in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. His translation and critical edition of the anonymous Trag馘ie du sac de Cabri鑽es is forthcoming with the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in 2022.

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