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The fifteenth century defies consensus on fundamental issues; most scholars agree, however, that the period outgrew the Middle Ages, that it was a time of transition and a passage to modern times. 'Fifteenth-Century Studies' offers essays on diverse aspects of the period, including liberal and fine arts, historiography, medicine, and religion. Essays within this thirty-sixth volume treat a wide range of topics: the importance of manuscript culture as reflected in 'Cárcel de amor;' the wanderings of René d'Anjou and Olivier de la Marche as reflected in literary texts; the art of compiling in Jean de Bueil's 'Jouvencel;' a diplomatic transcription of Princeton MS 153 (reception and compilation practices of the 'Rose'); historical approaches in the chronicles of Jean le Bel and Jean Froissart; the Fairfax Sequence in Bodleian MS Fairfax 16; anticlerical critique in the Croxton 'Play of the Sacrament'; the Chester cycle of mystery plays; the conquering Turk in Carnival Nürnberg: Hans Rosenplüt's 'Des Turken Vasnachtspil'; and Tolkien's eucatastrophe and Malory's 'Morte Darthur'. Book reviews conclude the volume. CONTRIBUTORS: Ethan Campbell, Emily C. Francomano, D. Thomas Hanks, Jr., Theodore K. Lerud, John Moreau, Gerald Nachtwey, Mariana Neilly, Marco Nievergelt, Michelle Szkilnik, Martin W. Walsh. EDITORS: BARBARA I. GUSICK is Professor Emerita of English at Troy University, Dothan, Alabama; MATTHEW Z. HEINTZELMAN is curator of the Austria/Germany Study Center and Rare Book Cataloger at Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, Saint John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota.

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Olivier de La Marche's Memoires of events in Burgundy in the latter half of the fifteenth century raise many questions for historians. Written piecemeal over a period of fifty years, individual passages must first be dated; then, questions of style and genre can be addressed: are the Memoires memoirs in the modern understanding of the term? How far can the text be read as autobiography? Is La Marche the eyewitness he seems? The relationship between the Memoires and the literary culture surrounding the Burgundian court is also examined, followed by examination of three key aspects of the Memoires: their status as didactic literature, the place accorded to religion (and within that, to Franciscan friars), and the presentation of combat. Far from being a naive and inaccurate account, the Memoires emerge as having specific polemical purposes, the polemic often strengthened by what have traditionally been read as confused chronology and material errors.

Marche, de la, Olivier --- La Marche, Olivier de, --- Burgundy, House of. --- Burgundy, House of --- 930.21 "04/14" --- 940.19 --- 930.21 "04/14" Historiografie: Middeleeuwen --- Historiografie: Middeleeuwen --- 940.19 Geschiedenis van Europa:--1270-1492 --- Geschiedenis van Europa:--1270-1492 --- Burgundy (France) --- Europe --- History. --- History --- Old French literature --- History as a science --- Historians --- Historiens --- France --- Bourgogne (France) --- Historiography --- Historiographie --- Histoire --- La Marche, Olivier de --- Burgundy [House of ] --- 476-1492 --- Historiography. --- La Marche, Olivier de, - ca. 1426-1502. - Memoires d'Olivier de La Marche --- Burgundy (France) - History --- Europe - History - 476-1492 --- LA MARCHE (OLIVIER DE), CA. 1426-1502 --- BOURGOGNE (FRANCE) --- EUROPE --- HISTORIOGRAPHIE --- MEMOIRES --- HISTOIRE --- 15E SIECLE --- FRANCE