Publisher's Synopsis
Reinardus aims at the promoting of comparative research in the fields of medieval comic, satirical, didactic, and allegorical literature (with emphasis on beast epic, fable, and fabliau), including sources, influences and later developments into the modern period. The methods and critical interpretations it offers are as wide-ranging as is its subject matter, since it considers discussion and the coexistence of conflicting views as more important than the defence of a specific methodological point of view. Contents: Michel Bideaux - L'Ane de la fable face au XVIe siecle francais; Elaine C. Block - Half Angel - Half Beast. Images of Women on Misericords; Andre Bouwman - Van den vos Reynaerde and Branch VIII of the Roman de Renart; Paola Cifarelli - Les apologues d'Estienne Valancier; Naoyuki Fukumoto - Sur le ms. a du Roman de Renart; Noboru Harano - Quelques particularites de la Branche VII du Roman de Renart; Jean Lacroix - Gli animali parlanti (1802) de Casti; Brian Levy - A propos du conte pieux de l' Ermite et du Jongleur; Christopher Lucken - Du ban du coq a l' Ariereban de l'ane. (A propos du Bestiaire d'Amour de Richard de Fournival); Ettina Nieboer - Quelques remarques d'ordre methodologique a propos de la classification des manuscrits du Roman de Renart ; Gabriella Parussa - La nature "merveilleuse" des animaux dans la predication d'un frere franciscain: Nicole Bozon et ses Metaphorae; Dietmar Peil - Der Einflui des Reynke de vos auf Georg Rollenhagens Froschmeuseler (1595); Wilfried Schouwink - Parodies fo Liturgical Music in the Ysengrimus and some Medieval Analogies; James Simpson - Sinful Narrative int he Roman e Renart; Richard Trachsler - Quelque remarques a propos du mauvais Leopard dans la litterature francaise medievale; Charity Cannon Willard - Renard et ses compagnons dans les sermons de Jean Gerson; Joan B. Williamson - The Image of the Horse in the Work of Philippe de Medzieres.
