IntroductIon
Literature as Eschatological Scene
I. La scène judiciaire: Big and Little Judges
II. The Eschatological Procès
III. Scope of the Book and Chapter Outline
Chapter 1
Representation in Heaven: the Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Rhetor Divinus
I. Quid sum miser tunc dicturus?
II. From Legal Subject to Eschatological Subject
III. Human Rights and the Devil’s Rights: The Virgin’s Divine Advocacy
IV. Divine Rhetoric in Action: The Puys
Chapter 2
A Particular Judgment: The Case of Deguileville’s Pèlerinage de l’âme
I. Introduction
II. Des ouvrages quë il a fait: The First Two Pèlerinages
III. Preliminary Judgments
IV. Satan v. Guillermus de Deguilevilla
Chapter 3
Post-Apocalyptic Judgment: Machaut’s Jugement dou roy de Navarre
I. Introduction
II. The Judgment of the Living and the Dead
III. Bonneurté’s Case and Guillaume’s Livres
IV. Judgment in the Court of Charles de Navarre
Chapter 4
The Judgment of Jupiter: Froissart’s Joli buisson de Jonece
I. Introduction
II. Froissart’s Judgment of Paris, or a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Machaut
III. God’s Capital, Venus’s Gifts, and the Judgment of the Patron
IV. Recollection and Redemption in Froissart’s “Lay de Nostre Dame”
Conclusion
In Lieu of a Last Judgment: Beyond the Fourteenth Century