Le Bone Florence of Rome
Manchester University Press, 1976. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Fine / Near Fine. Item #011907
Full red paper boards. x, 205 pp. Dust jacket is price clipped, lightly soiled, some creasing to spine and front cover. This strangely neglected late Middle English romance is an important analogue of Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale. It reflects to an unusual degree the ambivalent and contradictory medieval attitudes towards women: chivalrous exaltation and antifeminist clerical disapproval. This is a fully annotated critical edition, the first in English for over 150 years. There is a detailed discussion of the language and palaeography of the unique manuscript and of the poem's origins, analogues and literary qualities.
Price: $30.00