Sermon Joyeux and Polemic: Two Sixteenth-Century Applications of the Legend of the Fifteen Signs

These two anonymous French poems indicated that the medieval legend of the Fifteen Signs Before the Judgment still had a place in the intellectual background of the sixteenth century. They reveal the legend's decaying status as well as suggests its new uses, catching the Renaissance in the course of its transition from medieval to modern.

Author: William W. Heist
Publisher: Unc Department of Romance Studies
Published: 01/01/1968
Pages: 58
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.13d
ISBN: 9780807890738