Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 6984
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Merkle , Gertrude H.
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  • Title: Martin Le Franc's Commentary on Jean Gerson's Treatise on Joan of arc [the appendix reproduces the six missing stanzas along with the author's English translation].
  • Source: Fresh Verdicts on Joan of Arc.  Edited by Bonnie Wheeler and Charles T. Wood.  Garland Publishing, 1996.  Pages 177 - 188.
  • Description:
  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Gerson, Jean, Theologian- De Mirabili Victoria Joan of Arc, Saint LeFranc, Martin, Poet- Champion des Dames Literature- Verse
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  • Geographic Area: France
  • Century: 15
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  • Abstract: In the "Champion des dames" (1440-1442), Martin Le Franc wrote in defense of his contemporary Joan of Arc. Six of these stanzas, long unknown because they had been excised from the original manuscript, deal with Jean Gerson's "little treatise" about the maid -- which is, in Le Franc's words, "much shrewder than we think." [Reproduced by permission of Garland Publishing.]
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  • Author's Affiliation: University of Bridgeport
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  • Year of Publication: 1996.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0815323379