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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' treats diverse aspects of the period, including liberal and fine arts, historiography, medicine, and religion. Volume 35 addresses topics including physical impairments as depicted in surgical handbooks printed in Germany and as reflected through eyeglasses for the blind (a therapy proposed by French vernacular poets); literary constructions of women in de Meun's 'Cité des Dames' and in hagiographic legends of Spain; the evolution of the Order of the Garter as dramatized in Shakespeare; serious elements in French farces; the festival context of Villon's 'Pet-au-Deable'; Boethius in the late Middle Ages; 'A Revelation of Purgatory' and Chaucer's Prioress; 'Piers Plowman' in one British Library manuscript; and narrative afterlife and time in Henryson's 'Testament of Cresseid.' Book reviews conclude the volume. Contributors: Milagros Alameda-Irizarry, Chiara Benati, Edelgard E. DuBruck, Rosanne Gasse, Chelsea Honeyman, Noel Harold Kaylor Jr., James N. Ortego II, E. L. Risden, Julie Singer, Geri L. Smith, Martin W. Walsh. Matthew Z. Heintzelman is Curator of the Austria/Germany Study Center and Rare Book Cataloger at Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, Saint John's University, Minnesota; Barbara I. Gusick is Professor Emerita of English at Troy University Dothan; Martin W. Walsh is Head of the Drama Program at the University of Michigan's Residential College.

Renaissance --- Civilization, Medieval --- Literature, Medieval --- History and criticism --- Culture --- Fifteenth century. --- History --- History and criticism. --- 15th century --- Middle Ages --- Cultural sociology --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Social aspects --- Boethius. --- British Library Manuscript. --- Chaucer's Prioress. --- Fifteenth Century. --- Fine Arts. --- French Farces. --- Hagiographic Legends. --- Henryson's Testament of Cresseid. --- Historiography. --- Liberal Arts. --- Literary Constructions of Women. --- Medicine. --- Middle Ages. --- Narrative Afterlife. --- Order of the Garter. --- Physical Impairments. --- Piers Plowman. --- Religion. --- Revelation of Purgatory. --- Time. --- Villon's Pet-au-Deable. --- Renaissance. --- Civilization, Medieval. --- HISTORY. --- LITERARY CRITICISM --- European --- German.