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FRENCH STUDIES: THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY

FRENCH STUDIES: THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY French Studies THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY By DUDLEY WILSON, Reader in French in the University qf Durham I. GENERAL One of the main events of the year has been the appearance of the first three French Renaissance Classics, a series of reprints done by S.R. Publishers, Johnson Reprint Corp. and Mouton; general ed. M. A. Screech. They appear separately elsewhere in this survey and are (in order of appearance) La Louenge des femmes; J. Bouchet, Epistres morales et familieres; T. de Beze, Abraham sacrijiant. The problems of editing a 16th-c. text are virtually insoluble by traditional methods. Here at least, are well done reasonably priced reprints, not always of the best copy but generally of the original ed. It is a firm step in the right direction. The first of three general works on the period pub. (for the first time) in paperback and presumably intended for the undergraduate is: French Humanism I47O-I600, ed. W. L. Gundersheimer, Macmillan, 269 pp. This series of reprinted essays by various hands is inevitably disconnected but contains much that is good. Weak on the history and development of printing but illus otherwise are reasonable. Useful. D. Stone, France in the Sixteenth Century. A medieval http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies Brill

FRENCH STUDIES: THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY

The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies , Volume 31 (1): 15 – Mar 13, 1970

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2222-4297
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French Studies THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY By DUDLEY WILSON, Reader in French in the University qf Durham I. GENERAL One of the main events of the year has been the appearance of the first three French Renaissance Classics, a series of reprints done by S.R. Publishers, Johnson Reprint Corp. and Mouton; general ed. M. A. Screech. They appear separately elsewhere in this survey and are (in order of appearance) La Louenge des femmes; J. Bouchet, Epistres morales et familieres; T. de Beze, Abraham sacrijiant. The problems of editing a 16th-c. text are virtually insoluble by traditional methods. Here at least, are well done reasonably priced reprints, not always of the best copy but generally of the original ed. It is a firm step in the right direction. The first of three general works on the period pub. (for the first time) in paperback and presumably intended for the undergraduate is: French Humanism I47O-I600, ed. W. L. Gundersheimer, Macmillan, 269 pp. This series of reprinted essays by various hands is inevitably disconnected but contains much that is good. Weak on the history and development of printing but illus otherwise are reasonable. Useful. D. Stone, France in the Sixteenth Century. A medieval

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Published: Mar 13, 1970

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