Fortunes Stabilnes: Charles of Orleans's English Book of Love: A Critical Edition

by Charles d'Orléans, Mary-Jo Arn (Editor)

A contemporary Middle English translation of some of the French poems, attributed to Charles of Orléans himself.

". . . an expert and readable edition."
—Studies in the Age of Chaucer

640 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

Charles of Orléans was Duke of Orléans from 1407, following the murder of his father, Louis I, Duke of Orléans, on the orders of John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy. He was also Duke of Valois, Count of Beaumont-sur-Oise and of Blois, Lord of Coucy, and the inheritor of Asti in Italy via his mother Valentina Visconti, daughter of Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan. He is now remembered as an accomplished medieval poet owing to the more than five hundred extant poems he produced, most written during his 25 years spent as a prisoner of war.