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Rutebeuf was a thirteenth-century French troubadour. This work examines his portrayals of Louis IX, who he considered to be a fanatic. The prose of Rutebeuf, Edward Billings Ham argues, calls attention to the king's avarice and political ineptitude, and to the self-interest of his counselors and their preposterous incapacity for war.

This collection in prose and verse of twenty-seven historical or legendary tales adapted from the Gesta Romanorum by Pierre Gringore (1475-1538), the French poet and playwright, is based on the two earliest printed versions in the Bibliotheque Nationale and includes the original engravings.

La Chancun de Willame is an Old French epic poem written before 1150 concerning Vivien's resistance to an invading Moslem army and the efforts of his uncle William to rescue him. The poem has a second part dedicated to the activities of a kitchen boy named Reneward in the same battlefield. This volume, edited by Nancy V. Iseley, includes an etymological glossary by Guerard Piffard.

Offers a reevaluation and a reinterpretation of Pierre Charron (1541-1603) - in particular La Sagesse - and of the impact of his writings. Jean Daniel Charron sheds new light on this great figure in French literature, and argues that he should be considered more important and original than previously thought.

Pierre Bayle (1647-1706) was a French philosopher and writer best known for his seminal work, the Historical and Critical Dictionary. This brief book examines Bayle's writings about Spanish authors and their work, which Scholberg argues was influential on other French critics and philosophers.

This descriptive study of the sentence structure of the French language from 1300 to 1515 bridges the gap between Lucien Foulet's Petite syntaxe de l'ancien francais and Haase's Syntaxe francais du XVII siecle.

Explains how the white American's conception of himself and his position on the continent formed his perception of the Indian and directed his selection of policy toward the native tribes. It presents the paradoxical and pathetic story of how the Jeffersonian generation, with the best of goodwill toward the American Indian, destroyed him with its benevolence, literally killed him with kindness.

Analyses the ways in which experts can aid a political community in choosing public statistics for citizens to use in making policy judgments. In contrast to the study of social indicators, which has emphasized descriptions and models of social change, Duncan MacRae stresses that the relevant measures should be selected in view of their potential applications.

UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

These papers were presented during a Conference on Research and Regional Welfare, part of the Sescuicentennial Celebration of the university. The subjects covered include nutrition and public health, the humanities and social sciences, the physical sciences and industry, and the biological sciences.

Presents the minutes of the governing body of the capital of the Confederate States of America. For the serious student of the Civil War as well as the serious collector of Virginiana, and of course for the professional writer, the historian, and the political scientist, this edition will be a most useful and important source book. Originally published 1966.

The Romantic poets believed that the selection and arrangement of poems into collections were important steps in the poetic process. From the works of Dante, Petrarch, and Milton, Fraistat finds poetic precedent for the organising principles of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, and Shelley. From this background, he surveys over three hundred poetic volumes published between 1790 and 1830.

In this carefully constructed work, Dixon extends the study of art by defining a critical procedure for determining the relation between the work of art and the fundamental attitude of the artist toward himself and the world in which he lives. His specific concern is the relation between art and Christianity. Originally published in 1964.

Agents of Manifest Destiny: The Lives and Times of the Filibusters

Traces a single Agricultural Adjustment Administration commodity program and assesses the impact of a major New Deal program in North Carolina. Given the problems that affected both AAA policy making and implementation, the New Deas's choice lay not between a limited or a radical program but between the limited program or none at all.

Bulletin number two of the Southern Humanities Conference presents an account of the founding of the conference, the projects in which it is engaged, and a history of the societies represented in the conference. It is designed to inform the reader of the organized scholarship in the humanities and the work going on in the South. Originally published in 1951.

These eight studies in Victorian literature, a memorial to Dr. Booker, do not attempt to suggest the breadth of his literary interests, nor do they attempt to give a unified view of even the Victorian field. Rather, they represent the esteem of eight scholars for Dr. Booker, who was associated with them in the advancement of Victorian studies.

Recounts the development of the graduate school; describes the university's facilities for the promotion of research and publication - its expanding libraries, its scientific laboratories, its periodical publication, its permanent institutes, and its university press; and presents a list of publications from the founding of the graduate school to 1945.

This book touches on the social, economic, and governmental changes that occurred during the World War II - the changes that took place, all over the US but were intensified in the Hampton Roads and Virginia Peninsula area. The hectic experiences of this vital centre in adjusting to difficult conditions should help other defense-affected regions of the country.

For the first time, a formal benefit-cost requirement plays an integral role in US environmental policymaking, and in this volume, some of the nation's leading experts on environmental policy appraise the effects of President Reagan's Executive Order No. 12291. Originally published in 1984.

This carefully selected collection from the entire fifteen-year span of the Southern Poetry Review displays an admirable richness of contemporary talent. Included are the early works of such distinguished poets as A.R. Ammons, James Dickey, Fred Chappell, Josephine Jacobsen, Robert Watson, William Harmon, Wendell Berry, Vassar Miller, Robert Morgan, Betty Adcock, and Heather Miller.

Assesses the range of Dante's influence on British and American modernist writers. The indebtedness includes citation and allusion, imitation, parody, literary strategies, and a continuing dialogue between the modernists and Dante. The differences in response to this remote precursor clarify the development of each writer and highlight the multiplicity of literary stances among the modernists.

Mansfield Manuscripts and the Growth of English Law in the Eighteenth Century: Volume I

This is a complete concordance, based on the Jacques Crepet-Georges Blin critical edition of Les Fleurs du mal and prepared on a UNIVAC 1105 computer. Every word of the 161 poems that comprise the critical edition and its supplement is indexed within the line of context. The variants are alphabetized and a complete word-frequency count concludes the volume.

Presents the proceedings of the first symposium ever held to consider in a comprehensive manner the multiple problems of hemophilia. Containing the complete material presented at the symposium, the volume provides an authoritative summary of the status of hemophilia and related diseases at the time of the conference.

This volume, the proceedings of the third international conference held in Washington, D.C., in December 1963, consists of forty-five papers representing the status of knowledge at the time and the advances made since publication of the second symposium volume in 1959.

The twenty North Carolina poets included here are amply represented by exemplary poems. Their selections are difficult or easy, disturbing or satisfying, according to the mood and style; they symbolize the diverse and delightful literary face of North Carolina. Originally published in 1963.

The Reverend Charles Pettigrew was a blend of many elements: Huguenot-Scot-Irish, Presbyterian and Anglican, frontiersman and urbanite, schoolteacher and aristocrat, common man and Federalist - in other words, American. His career was an excellent example of upward mobility in early America, and this account assumes a significance beyond the North Carolina locale.

The papers of Chief Justice Walter Clark of North Carolina cover some of the most explosive decades in American life. It was a period of great expansion, corruption, power aggregations of wealth, indifference to the general welfare, and a slow awakening of labor to a sense of its latent power.

Eliza Potter was a freeborn black woman who, as a hairdresser, was in a position to hear about, receive confidences from, and observe wealthy white women. This autobiography presents her portrait as a wage-earning woman, proud of her work, who earned high pay and accumulated quite a bit of money as one of the nation's earliest 'beauticians'.