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In 1220, when the majority of Western physicians had come to rely on the examination of their patients' urine to make a diagnosis and give a prognosis, a practitioner named Guillaume, an Englishman settled in Marseille...
In the autumn of 1856, the Revue de Paris printed in six consecutive issues a previously unpublished novel, Madame Bovary. Laurent Pichat, editor of the Revue, had demanded cuts from his author which the latter had refused...
Victor Hugo's 1856 Les Contemplations was an immense success, selling out its first edition within days. The present work is a facsimile edition of the copy offered by Hugo to his lost daughter’s brother-in-law, Auguste Vacquerie...
La Fontaine's shadow obscures the genre of fable before his advent, something which this collection of articles seeks to correct. The different studies present the growth of fable collections before the seventeenth century, preparing La Fontaine’s ...
Pierre de L'Estoile, Grand audiencier of the Parisian parliament, was as fascinated by the current affairs and curiosities of Paris's political life as he was by the sensational gossip spread by the political satires that he collected...
Perceforest tells the prehistory of the Grail through the exploits of Alexander and Arthur in a universe where paganism and Christianity are connected by enchantment...
An ellipitic continuation of the Prose Tristan, which inscribes itself in the space separating the birth of Tristan from Meliadus' new marriage with king Hoël’s daughter, the Meliadus’ romance (1235-1240) is essentially an open text...
Jean Salmon Macrin (1490-1557), famous neo-latin poet, native from Loudun, in France's Touraine region, held the position of official valet and poet for king Francis the First, like his colleague Clément Marot...
Scévole de Sainte-Marthe was General Controller of the Royal Finances in Poitou and Poitiers between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His Elogia, a collection of poetry, prose and other writings, offers a first-hand account of the civil wars...
Jean Golein's fourteenth-century French vernacular translation of a thirteenth-century liturgical manual illustrates a shift in medieval intellectual history...
Ce volume, comme celui qui paraîtra en 2011 sur « Les écrivains français devant les Amériques », s'inscrit dans la suite du récent colloque de l’ADIREL (mars 2008 en Sorbonne)...
This study examines the virginal female characters common in twelfth-century literature, defined by their desire for escape and love, as well as their relative freedom to act within the constraints of their innocence.
The figure of the prince as patron of letters seems almost a historiographical topos, with literary patronage too easily considered as cultural politics. However, between the 16th and the 17th century, this image was the result of a slow ...
This collection of articles investigates laughter during the Renaissance. Studies examine laughter through music and iconography, in addition to written expressions of laughter, shedding light on authors and artists...
Alexandre Dumas maintained the place of wonder in the modern novel through themes from contemporary myths, such as unlimited scientific progress, all-powerful money or distance lands...
Horror has long fascinated readers and spectators, from visions of hell in Middle Ages to apocalyptic reflections on modern times. This collection of articles sheds light on the representation of horror, and the pleasure it can provide readers.