The chief aim of this volume of essays is to give some telling examples of the metamorphoses of the Beast Epic fox as he travelled through time and space entertaining people (rather like the travelling minstrel he once pretended to be in the Roman de Renart), and of his involvement in some of the basic problems and issues men and women have faced in many different kinds of society. - [Editor]

Contents:

1. The Satiric Fiction of the Ysengrimus (Jill Mann)
2. Rape and Adultery: Reflected Facets of Feudal Justice in the Roman de Renart (Jean Subrenat)
3. Morals, Justice and Geopolitics in the Reinhart Fuchs of the Alsatian Heinrich der Glichezaere (Jean-Marc Pastré)
4. Medieval French and Dutch Renardian Epics: Between Literature and Society (Paul Wackers)
5. The Printed Dutch Reynaert Tradition: From the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Century (Paul Wackers)
6. The Flemish Reynaert As An Ideological Weapon (Rik van Daele)
7. The Ill-Fated Consequence of the Tom-Cat’s Jump, and Its Illustration (Jan Goossens)
8. Choir-Stall Carvings of Reynard and Other Foxes (Elaine C. Block and Kenneth Varty)
9. Reynard in England: From Caxton to the Present (Kenneth Varty)
10. Hartmann Schopper’s Latin Reinike of 1567 (Wilfried Schouwink)
11. The Political Import of Goethe’s Reineke Fuchs (Roger H. Stephenson)
12. Paul Weber’s Satirical Use of Reineke in Cartoon Form (Kenneth Varty)
13. The Death and Resurrection of the Roman de Renart (Kenneth Varty and Jean Dufournet)
14. The Fox and the Wolf in the Well: the Metamorphoses of a Comic Motif (Kenneth Varty)
15. The Fox and the Hare: An Odd Couple (Elina Suomela-Härmä)

Language: English