IV - Anthologies, Selections, and Collected Critical Studies

Summary

Items are listed in chronological order, and alphabetically by author within a year. It should be noted that no cross-references are given elsewhere to incomplete editions or selections of CP’s work listed below

(a) Anthologies and Selections

1450 Les poètes françois depuis le XII^e siècle jusqu’à Malherbe, II, Paris: Crapelet, 1824, pp. 165–76.

Contains brief note on CP (pp. 165–66), prints four ballads from Cent ballades (I, XI, XXVI, C), and Enseignemens moraux (pp. 171–76).

1451 Barratt, Alexandra, ed. Women’s Writing in Middle English, London: Longman (Longman Annotated Texts), 1992, xv + 328pp.

Introduction (pp. 1–23), texts (pp. 27–310), bibliography (pp. 311–22). There are extracts (pp. 137–62) from Middle English versions of Epistre Othea, Corps de Policie and Fais d’armes et de chevalerie.

Rev.: .1 Alcuin Blamires, MAe, 63 (1994), 142.

1452 Blamires, Alcuin, Karen Pratt, & C.W. Marx, ed. Woman Defamed and Woman Defended: An Anthology of Medieval Texts, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992, xiii + 327pp.

Excellent anthology. Chapters 1–7 cover the roots of anti-feminism, the Church Fathers and their legacy, satirical tradition in Medieval Latin, anti-feminist tales, vernacular adaptations, and Chaucer. Chapter 8 prints extracts from responses to anti-feminism: some anonymous works, Marbod of Rennes, Abelard, Albertano of Brescia, John Gower, the Trial of Walter Brut. Chapter 9 (‘A Woman Defends Women’) is on CP (pp. 278–302). The extracts from the Epistre au dieu d’Amours and the debate on the Rose are printed in a new translation by Karen Pratt; the extracts from the Cité des dames are from the Richards translation (see 391, 801). Bibliography, pp. 303–13.

Rev.: .1 Charlotte C. Morse, MAe, 63 (1994), 119–21.

.2 Marion Wynne-Davies, MLR, 89 (1994), 964–65.

.3 S. N. Tranter, Anglia, 113 (1995), 245–47.

1453 Amt, Emilie, ed. Women’s Lives in Medieval Europe: A Sourcebook, London: Routledge, 1993, ix + 347pp.

There is a short note on CP on p. 163, followed (pp. 164–65) by a brief extract from Trois vertus in English, from Willard & Cosman, 867. Bibliography, pp. 331–40.

Rev.: .1 Corinne J. Saunders, MAe, 63 (1994), 326–28.

1454 *Ferrand, Françoise, & François Suard, ed. Quatre siècles de poésie: la lyrique médiévale au nord de la France du XII^e–XV^e siècle, Troesnes: Corps 9 (Trésors Littéraires Médiévaux du Nord de la France, 7), 1993, 287pp.