Theoretically informed, well documented, and comprehensive, Rewriting Arthurian Romance in Renaissance France provides a much-needed map with which to navigate a prolific textual production that was seen as anecdotal, in part because it did not fit traditional histories of literary culture in the Renaissance.
H-FRANCE
This volume is a valuable tool for those interested in the power of ... Read morethe print market to shape literary history. Its bibliographical analyses show an acute sensitivity to the role of the book as material object in the various afterlives of past textual practices. . . . [It serves] as a springboard for further study of these uncommon works by medievalists and early modernists alike.
MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES
With this book, Jane Taylor offers us a remarkable, sophisticated study of how Arthurian materials were treated in the age of print. . . . [A] pioneering book. The approach should be of interest to medievalists of all stripes (not just Arthurians) as well as Renaissance scholars.
THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW
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