The current volume, designed as a tribute to Edelgard E. DuBruck, focuses on the importance and praise of late-medieval women.Founded in 1977 as the publication organ for the Fifteenth-Century Symposia, Fifteenth-Century Studies offers essays on diverse aspects of the 15th century, including liberal and fine arts, historiography, medicine, and religion. Designed as a Festschrift honoring Edelgard E. DuBruck, the current volume focuses on the importance and praise of late-medieval women. Topics include Christine de Pizan's response to Boccaccio's De Mulieribus Claris, the figures of Melibea and Celestina in La Celestina, Catalan love poetry, the Nine Muses in Le Franc's Champion des Dames, and artistic praise of the Virgin Mary. Other topics include a wellness guide for late-medieval seniors, women's sins of the tongue and Villon's Testament, the stoic tradition seen in a farewell letter, medicine and magic, and book-burning. An article demonstrates Bertrand Du Guesclin's extraordinary valor, and two essays on Chaucer explore chivalry and violence in The Knight's Tale and Troilus's withdrawal at the end of Troilus and Criseyde. Contributors: Melitta Weiss Adamson, Gery B. Blumenshine, KarenCasebier, Edelgard E. Dubruck, Olga Anna Duhl, Barbara I. Gusick, Jamie Leanos, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Christiane Raynaud, Roxana Recio, Barbara N. Sargent-Baur, Karen Elaine Smyth, Steven Millen Taylor, Arjo Vanderjagt, Elizabeth I. Wade-Sirabian, Karl A. Zaenker Edelgard E. DuBruck is Professor Emerita at Marygrove College, Detroit, Michigan, and Barbara I. Gusick is Professor at Troy University-Dothan, Dothan, Alabama.

Preface I - Barbara I. GusickPreface II - Jean DufournetWellness Guides for Seniors in the Middle Ages - Melitta Weiss AdamsonSources and Meaning of the Marian Hemicycle Windows at Évreux: Mosaics, Sculpture, and Royal Patronage in Fifteenth-Century France - Gary B. BlumenshineRe-Writing Lucretia: Chrsitine de Pizan's Response to Boccaccio's De Mulieribus Claris - Karen CasebierVernacular Translation and the Sins of the Tongue: From Brant's Stultifera Navis (1494) to Droyn's La Nef des folles (c.1498)(c.1498) - Olga Anna DuhlLa Celestina: Philocaptio o apetito carnal? - Jaime Leanos"As Olde Stories Tellen Us": Chivalry, Violence, and Geoffrey Chaucer's Critical Perspective in The Knight's Tale - Ilan Mitchell-SmithPortrait d'une carrière extraordinaire: Bertrand Du Guesclin, chef du guerre modèle, dans la Chronique anonyme dite des Cordeliers (c.1432) (c.1432) - Christiane RaynaudHumanismo en la Corona de Aragón: el Manuscrito 229 de la Biblioteca - Roxana RecioFalse Starts and Ambiguous Clues in François Villon's Testament (1461) - Barbara N. Sargent-BaurReassessing Chaucer's Cosmological Discourse at the End of Troilus and Criseyde (c.1385)* - Karen Elaine SmythDown to Earth and Up to Heaven: The Nine Muses in Martin Le Franc's Le Champion des Dames - Steven Millen TaylorGuillaume Hugonet's Farewell Letter to His Wife on April 3, 1477: "My Fortune is Such that I Expect to Die Today and to Depart this World" - Arjo VanderjagtFifteenth-Century Medicine and Magic at the University of Heidelberg - Elizabeth Wade-SirabianBook-Burning: The Saint Brendan Story in the Light of Christian Tradition - Karl Zaenker