Les Esch憴 d'amours ─ A Critical Edition of the Poem and Its Latin Glosses

This great medieval allegory combines love, politics, economics, music, medicine and chess through the lens of classical and scholastic learning. The solid treatment includes its history, context and audience; the path of the title; author (s); manuscript history; literary context; codicological and linguistic analysis; editorial policy and principals; the Latin glosses of Venice; and a plot summary. After all this comes the work itself, with critical notes. Following the poem is the Latin glosses of Venice. The work is impressive, as is the manufacture of the volume. The poem itself is in French. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Gregory Heyworth, Ph.D. (2001) Princeton University, is Associate Professor of English at the University of Mississippi. He publishes on English, French, Italian and Latin literature of the Middle Ages, including most recently Desiring Bodies: Ovidian Romance and the Cult of Form (Notre Dame, 2009)Daniel E. O'Sullivan, Ph.D. (2000) Boston College, is Associate Professor of French at the University of Mississippi. A specialist in medieval French literature, he has recently edited Chess in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age (De Gruyter, 2012) and co-edited Shaping Courtliness in Medieval France (Boydell and Brewer, 2013).Frank T. Coulson (Ph.D. (1982) University of Toronto is Professor of Classics at The Ohio State University. He publishes on the medieval Latin school tradition on Ovid and on Latin palaeography. Most recently he has edited with James Clark and Kathryn McKinley Ovid in the Middle Ages (Oxford, 2011).