Description: This is a substantial and readable volume, and it is supplied with a rich array of documentation in the notes and bibliography. It deals with a question of critical importance for current research on medieval literature': namely, the relationship between this literature and us...This is an important collection, and one may congratulate the editors of their ambitious undertaking.--Paul Zumthor, 'Speculum.'
Brief description: Marina S. Brownlee is the Class of 1963 College of Women Professor of Romance Languages.
Review Quotes:
This is a substantial and readable volume, and it is supplied with a rich array of documentation in the notes and bibliography. It deals with a question of critical importance for current research on medieval 'literature': namely, the relationship between this literature and us . . . This is an important collection, and one may congratulate the editors of their ambitious undertaking.
--Paul Zumthor "Speculum"