Les Eschez D'amours : a critical edition of the poem and its Latin glosses / edited by Gregory Heyworth, Daniel E. O'Sullivan ; with Frank Coulson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Heyworth, Gregory, 1967- editor.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Medieval and Renaissance authors and texts ; 10.

Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts ; 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Echecs amoureux.

Physical Description:

xi, 684 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

LEIDEN : BRILL, 2013.

Summary:

Les Eschéz d'Amours' may be the last great medieval allegory to find its way into a modern edition. In the tradition of the 'Roman de la Rose', the 'Eschéz' surveys matters of love, politics, economics, music, medicine, and chess through the lens of classical and Scholastic learning. In addition to the first 16,293 (of over 30,000) verses newly edited out of the manuscripts, the editors present a complete apparatus of literary, historical and linguistic essays that place the poem in the context of the scholarly and courtly life of late 14th century Paris. The important Latin glosses of the Venice manuscript of the 'Eschéz' follow in an edition of their own, with critical notes and translation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9004212531

9789004212534

OCLC:

833403308

Publisher Number:

99954860952