Author: Chartier, Alain & Blayney, Margaret S [editor]
Title: Fifteenth [ 15th ] Century English Translations Of Alain Chartier's Le Traité De L'Esperance And Le Quadrilogue Invectif Volume I Text [with] Volume II Introduction, Notes And Glossary [ 2 volumes complete ]
Description: published for the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press, 1974 - 1980, 1st edition. Cloth, dj ( to volume I ), VG/VG. 2 volumes, xvi+247pp, [viii]+260pp+20pp publishers catalogue, ex Public Library ( but reference copies so apart from a large bookplate & occasional small ink stamp, as new ). The second volume was issued without a dustjacket. EETS OS 270 & 281. Hardback with dustjacket. ISBN: 0197222722 ¶ A critical edition of Chartier's two works - an allegorical prose work 'The Quadrilogue Invective' and an allegorical mix of poetry & prose 'The Treatise of Hope' which contains an attack on the nobility and clergy.

Keywords: ISBN 0197222722, ISBN 0197222838, french literature, allegory, medieval literature 0197222722