Sara Ann Sturm

Ronsard, Petrarch, and the Amours

"An engaging and provocative study of how Ronsard has written not merely like Petrarch but quite literally as Petrarch, assuming the persona of the great Italian master while appropriating and manipulating his story."--JoAnn DellaNeva, University of Notre DameThis comparative study focuses on the sh...

The Lay of Guingamor: A Study (University of North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures No. 76)

Parisian Confraternity Drama of the Fourteenth Century: The 'Miracles de Nostre Dame par personnages' (MEDIEVAL TEXTS AND CULTURES OF NORTHERN EUROPE)

Parisian Confraternity Drama of the Fourteenth Century is the first volume of studies devoted solely to the Miracles de Nostre Dame par personnages. These anonymous plays, found in a single luxury manuscript, comprise the only major corpus of dramatic works in French that have survived from the four...

Expansion and Transformations of Courtly Literature

This collection brings together twelve selected papers given at the Second Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society. Because the courtly ethos is the central phenomenon marking medieval vernacular literature, it provides a theme that serves as an ideological guide through t...

Petrarch's Laurels

A comprehensive new reading of Petrarch's lyric collection known as the Canzoniere or Rime sparse, the work that stands at the origins of the dominant tradition of European Renaissance poetry. Unlike many other considerations of Petrarch's poetry, this study takes into account through close reading ...

Melusine of Lusignan: Founding Fiction in Late Medieval France

This volume of original essays is the first collection devoted to the monumental Roman de Melusine (1393) by Jean d'Arras. A masterwork of late fourteenth-century French prose fiction, Melusine tells of the powerful medieval dynasty of Lusignan from its founding as a city by the legendary Melusine, ...

Melusine; or, The Noble History of Lusignan

Jean d’Arras’s splendid prose romance of Melusine, written for Jean de Berry, the brother of King Charles V of France, is one of the most significant and complex literary works of the later Middle Ages. The author, promising to tell us “how the noble and powerful fortress of Lusignan in Poitou was f...

The Medieval French Alexander (Suny Series in Medieval Studies)

Explores the significance of Alexander the Great in French medieval literature and culture.