Gifts and Givers that Keep on Giving: Pictured Presentations in Early Medieval Manuscripts
Corine Schleif
This volume honours the academic career of Professor Dhira B. Mahoney, recently retired from Department English at Arizona State University, who is well known for her rhetorical readings medieval literature. Mahoney’s scholarship employs theory in late literature, particularly prologues and epilogues, women’s writings, Arthuriana. As a response to work, Romance Rhetoric offers variety literary pieces Middle Ages, especially those authors genres on which Mahoney has published. Its collected essays provide interdisciplinary studies art, social history, manuscript transmission, relation texts English, Latin, German, French. In particular, this focus writings courtly such as Chaucer, Lydgate, Malory, Guillaume de Machaut, Christine Pizan, Chrétien Troyes, others. keeping with ancient tradition analysing principles structure an art they also examine rhetoric connected these wrote. thus fills gap scholarship, it evaluates scrutiny how teachings or poetic strategies inform writing romances.
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