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Zusatztext A superb handbook of late-medieval prose French romance. Informationen zum Autor Rosalind Brown-Grant was educated at the University of Manchester where she took a BA in French and Italian (1986) and was also later awarded a Ph.D for her thesis on the fifteenth-century writer Christine de Pizan (1994). Currently Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Leeds, she specialises in the teaching of medieval French literature at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Her published work includes Christine de Pizan and the Moral Defence of Women: Reading beyond Gender (CUP, 1999), a translation of Christine de Pizan's Book of the City of Ladies (Penguin Classics, 1999), and numerous articles in scholarly journals and edited volumes on Christine de Pizan and, more recently, late medieval French romance. She is currently preparing a major new research project on narration in Burgundian historiography. Klappentext The first in-depth study of a little-known area of French literary history focuses on a group of 15 romances produced in the century from 1390, many commissioned at the court of Burgundy. It examines how these works represented men in their roles as warriors, lovers, husbands, and fathers, and women as daughters, maidens, wives, and mothers. Zusammenfassung The first in-depth study of a little-known area of French literary history focuses on a group of 15 romances produced in the century from 1390, many commissioned at the court of Burgundy. It examines how these works represented men in their roles as warriors, lovers, husbands, and fathers, and women as daughters, maidens, wives, and mothers.
