Martin Le Franc's long neglected Le Champion des Dames has received new attention coincidental with the Women's Liberation Movement of the twentieth century due to its defense and illustration of women's intrinsic worth. However, its length (five books comprising over 24,000 octosyllabic verses) has discouraged the appearance of a modern critical edition. Approximately one-third of the entire work was edited uncritically by Arthur Piaget and published posthumously at Lausanne in 1968. / Continuing the work of Piaget and profiting from a study by Jerry Carroll Brooks on the filiation of the manuscripts of Le Champion des Dames which established eloquently MS BN 12476 as the base manuscript, we have edited Book III with a three-fold purpose: to make accessible more of the text, to illustrate its rich corpus of proper names and, especially, to define many words, some of which are found in no dictionary. / The transcribed text complete with marginal rubriques is preceded by a short introduction containing a resume of the life and works of the poet, a summary of Book III, and a description of the manuscript. The text is followed by a complete index of proper names and a selected glossary. / It is intended that this dissertation serve as a major step in the preparation of a definitive critical edition of the entire work and provide students of medieval French access to an important historical and literary work. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 42-06, Section: A, page: 2663. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1981.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74466 |
| Contributors | FISCHER, DON ARTHUR., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 222 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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