Item #006854 Master Richard's Bestiary of Love and Response. Richard De Fournival, Jeanette Beer.

Master Richard's Bestiary of Love and Response

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. Moser, Barry [engravings]. 1st English Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Near Fine / Near Fine. Item #006854

SIGNED with inscription to flyleaf from Jeanette Beer to John Leyerle and Patricia Eberle. Full tan cloth. xxxi, 83 pp. Printed in black, red and blue. Small black scuff to lower front board. Dust jacket is heavily sunned, price clipped, small spot of delamintation to foot of front cover. This new California edition of the Pennyroyal Press Master Richard's Bestiary of Love is the first published English translation of de Fournival's li Bestiare d'amour and its anonymous Response. The work is more than a love argument between a man and a woman in the thirteenth century. It is more than a clash between an Aristotelian and neo-Platonist view of sex and love. It is more even than a conflict between different social, theological and racial traditions. The Bestiary and Response reflect problems that are universal to every age: the divergence of male and female expectations, "love," sexual dominance, roles and duties, and sexual exploitation.

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