Textual and visual representations of power and justice in medieval France: manuscripts and early printed books

Abstract

Introduction / Rosalind Brown-Grant (University of Leeds) -- Translating power for the princes of the blood : Laurent de Premierfait's Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes / Anne D. Hedeman (University of Kansas) -- How to wield power with justice : the fifteenth-century Roman de Florimont as a Burgundian "Mirror for princes" / Rosalind Brown-Grant (University of Leeds) -- The just captain in the Jouvencel by Jean de Bueil / Michelle Szkilnik (Université de Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle) -- Reconfiguring Queen Truth in Paris, BnF, Ms. fr. 22542 (Songe du Vieil Pelerin) / Kristin Bourassa (University of York) -- Allegorical design and political image-making in late medieval France / Cynthia J. Brown (University of California, Santa Barbara) -- The wolf, the shepherd, and the whale : critiquing the King through metaphor in the reign of Louis XI / Lydwine Scordia (Université de Rouen) -- Passing sentence : variations on the figure of the judge in French political, legal, and historical texts from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century / Barbara Denis-Morel (Bibliothèque d'Avranches) -- The judge and the martyr : images of power and justice in religious manuscripts from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries / Maïté Billoré (Université de Lyon 3) and Esther Dehoux (Université de Lille 3 Charles-de-Gaulle) -- Beastly power, holy justice in late medieval France : from Robert Gobin's Loups ravissans to Books of hours / Mary Beth Winn (State University of New York, Albany) -- The Queen on trial : spectacle of innocence, performance of beauty / Yasmina Foehr-Janssens (Université de Genève) -- Claude of France : justice, power, and the Queen as advocate for her people / Kathleen Wilson-Chevalier (American University of Paris)