The first full-length, French-English bilingual edition of Rene of Anjou's Livre du coeurs d'amours espris, including all sixteen colour plates, critical introduction, notes on the translation and comprehensive bibliography.

This structure makes clear the multiple logics within which the author's psychology is reflected in the story, and how the symbol of the heart, as it travels through these shifting frameworks, dramatises vital relations linking self, desire, and writing.