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A Familiar Dialogue of the Friend and the Fellow: A Translation of Alain Chartier's ^IDialogus Familiaris Amici et Sodalis^R: 295 (Early English Text Society Original Series) - Hardcover

 
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Synopsis

A Famylyer Dyaloge of the Freende and Felaw, a late fifteenth-century translation of the Latin work Dialogus familiaris amici et sodalis (c.1425) by Alain Chartier, is a forceful prose work which laments the ruinous conditions of France caused by the corruption and vices, especially avarice and ambition, of the rulers, the army, and the common people in the early fifteenth century.

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Review

'It is good to have this work in print ... and deepens the debt mediaevalists owe to Margaret Blayney, whose earlier volumes of Alain Chartier have already appeared in this series ... this is a careful and interesting edition which will reward any informed reader amply.' Medium Aevum

Synopsis

A late 15th century translation of the Latin work "Dialogus familiaris amici et sodalis", which laments the conditions of France due to corruption and vices, especially avarice and ambition, of the rulers, the army and the "common people" in the early 15th century.

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