...Julie Singer From the time of its composition through the early 1460s, Alain Chartier's Belle Dame sans Mercy (1424) elicited a series of responses, including two continuations by Achille Caulier. This pair of closely related texts invites an exploration of the theoretical stakes of a confrontation...

... in a different way from punitive legal discourse in Achille Caulier’s poems. Meta­ phor can be unmarked in texts: Margaret Healy uses “crisis” as an example of a medical term that was brought over into political and other domains, becoming part of a medicalizing of politics that dominated sixteenth...