The Waxing of the Middle Ages: Revisiting Late Medieval France

Author:   Charles-Louis Morand-Métivier ,  Tracy Adams ,  Andrea Tarnowski ,  Stephen Nichols
Publisher:   University of Delaware Press
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9781644532911


Pages:   290
Publication Date:   14 April 2023
Recommended Age:   From 16 to 99 years
Format:   Hardback
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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.

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Author:   Charles-Louis Morand-Métivier ,  Tracy Adams ,  Andrea Tarnowski ,  Stephen Nichols
Publisher:   University of Delaware Press
Imprint:   University of Delaware Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.463kg
ISBN:  

9781644532911


ISBN 10:   1644532913
Pages:   290
Publication Date:   14 April 2023
Recommended Age:   From 16 to 99 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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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 Agnès 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 Agnès Sorel to Madame Du Barry. CHARLES-LOUIS MORAND-MÉTIVIER 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 Tragédie du sac de Cabrières is forthcoming with the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in 2022.     

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