the Wise King had come to embody and that Christine had aggressively pursued" (212). The author goes on to show how Christine reframed the work as a sacrificial one, which went on to haunt her later works, including the collection that she prepared for Isabeau of Bavaria (London, Harley 4331). The Writer's Gift or the Patron's Pleasure? is an impressive blend of literary and historical analysis coupled with close attention to primary sources. It challenges existing preconceptions of the way patrons and writers operated. It should encourage scholars of late medieval literature and art history to see Valois literary dynamics in a new light and those with broader interests in patronage studies to think carefully about cultures of commission and exchange, medieval as well as modern.
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