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Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski is Distinguished Professor of French at the University of Pittsburgh.

Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski is Distinguished Professor of French at the University of Pittsburgh and a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America. She is the author of several books, including Poets, Saints, and Visionaries of the Great Schism (1378-1417).

This book explores the appropriation and transformation of classical mythology by French culture from the mid-twelfth century to about 1430. Each of the five chapters focuses on a specific moment in this process and asks: What were the purposes of transforming classical myth? Which techniques did poets use to integrate classical subject matter into their own texts? Was a special interpretive tradition created for vernacular texts? In Chapter 1...

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This volume, the first to address Philippe Mezieres (1327-1405) and his legacy comprehensively since 1896, gathers twenty-two contributions shedding new light on Philippe's literary, political, and mystical writings, and places him in the context of his age and his contemporaries.

Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski is Distinguished Professor of French at the University of Pittsburgh and a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America. She is the author of several books, including Poets, Saints, and Visionaries of the Great Schism (1378-1417).

The articles in this collection, written by medievalists and Renaissance scholars, are part of the recent "cultural turn" in translation studies, which approaches translation as an activity that is powerfully affected by its socio-political context and the demands of the translating culture. The links made between culture, politics, and translation in these texts highlight the impact of ideological and political forces on cultural transfer in ...

For almost forty years, from 1378 to 1417, the Western Church was divided into rival camps headed by two-and eventually three--"competing popes. The so-called Great Schism provoked a profound and long-lasting anxiety throughout Europe--"an anxiety that reverberated throughout clerical circles and among the ordinary faithful. In

Margaret of Oingt was born around 1240 into a noble family in the French Beaujolais region, and became prioress of the Carthusian charterhouse of Poletains, visionary and mystic, her writings are intelligent and humorous. Includedhere are the Page of Meditations, on sin and salvation, the Mirror, a vision of Christ, the Life of the Virgin Saint Beatrice of Ornacieux, an exemplary text, and letters and stories, including comments on her problem...