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- ↑ Rita Copeland, "Renaut de Louens", in Medieval France: An Encyclopedia, edited by edited by William W. Kibler, Grover A. Zinn, Lawrence Earp and John Bell Henneman Jr. (Routledge, 2016), p. 795.
- ↑ F. Nagel, "Die altfranzösische Übersetzung der Consolatio philosophiae des Boëthius von Renaut von Louhans", Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie , 15 (1891), pp. 1-23.
- ↑ Curt F. Bühler, "The Morgan manuscript (M 39) of 'Le livre de Melibee et de Prudence'", in Studies in Language and Literature in Honour of Margaret Schlauch (New York, Russell and Russell, 1971), pp. 49-54.
- ↑ Dominick Grace, "Telling differences: Chaucer's 'Tale of Melibee' and Renaud de Louen's 'Livre de Melibee et Prudence'", Philological Quarterly , 82:4 (2003), pp. 367-400.
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