The New Reynard: Three Satires: Renart le Besto. Bryant**

Name: The New Reynard: Three Satires: Renart le Besto. Bryant**
Brand: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Boydell & Brewer Ltd

The New ReynardThree Satires: Renart le Bestourn, Le Couronnement de Renart, Renart le Nouvel\nAuthor(s): Nigel Bryant\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: The Boydell Press\nISBN-13: 9781783277384, 978-1783277384\nSynopsis\nA translation of three works from the second half of the 13th century: Rutebeuf's Renart le Bestourn, the anonymous Le Couronnement de Renart and Jacquemart Giele's Renart le Nouvel. These savage and highly entertaining satires are in a league of their own, and Renart le Nouvel contains important music which is reproduced in the text.\n\nRarely can a medieval work have resonated with the mood of the present as uncannily as do these three satires. Acerbic, raging and finally apocalyptic, these poems from the second half of the thirteenth century, richly entertaining and wickedly comic though they are, express a vision of the world and its descent into corruption and disaster which mirrors our own state of rampant alarm.