Joan McRae, An Introduction to Literary Debate in Late Medieval France: From Le Roman de la Rose to La Belle Dame sans Mercy. New Perspectives on Medieval Literature: Authors and Traditions. Gainesville, Tallahassee, et al., FL: University Press of Florida, 2024, 249 pp.

The author of the present volume, Joan McRae, is a scholar of international renown on late medieval manuscripts and literary studies, with a specialty in Alain Chartier’s Belle dame sans mercy (1424) and its associated “cycle” poems. She has edited or co-edited two bilingual editions of the Belle dame and selections from the sequel poems, one in French and one in English (227). Her groundbreaking critical studies on late medieval French poetry are also well known to scholarship (237).