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GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON MEDIEVAL ENGLISH LITERATURE, LANGUAGE, AND CULTURE
edited by Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr. and Richard Scott Nokes

“The twelve essays in this volume proceeed from a modern fantasy-epic back in time to oral epics that have been transmitted through the technology of manuscripts, and central in the collection are two articles that address Chaucer’s Middle English courtly epic, Troilus and Criseyde. The intervening essays focus on dramatic and lyric literary kinds, address aspects of medieval theology, or discuss issues in Old English and Middle English linguistics. A full range of subjects is discussed as the essays consider medieval English literature, language, and culture from nineteenth- and twentieth-century medievalism back to preliterate epic times. Each, in its own way, presents a global perspective on its subject, whether by comparing texts, by considering textual transmission through translation, or by contrasting medieval issues with developing global movements.
“These articles are presented as evidence of the international cooperation that has been fostered by the work of Paul Szarmach in the international community of medievalists and of the success of his vision in opening up the borders of a discipline that too long has been Eurocentric and not global in its perspective.”—from the Introduction

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr., and Richard Scott Nokes

Medieval Echoes in C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia with special emphasis on The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

- Andrzej Wicher
Writing a New Morality Play: The Court as the World in John Skelton's Magnyfycence and John Redford's Wit and Science

- Liliana Sikorska
Clerical Anxiety, Margery's Crying, and Her Book

- Ji-Soo Kang
"The blood I souke of his feet": The Christocentric Heritage of Medieval Affective Piety - A Historical Overview

- Wladyslaw Witalisz
Despotic Mares, Dirty Sows, and Angry Bitches: On Middle English Zoosemy and Beyond

- Grzegorz A. Kleparski
No Greater Pain: The Ironies of Bliss in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde

- An Sonjae (Brother Anthony)
Re-examining Geoffrey Chaucer's Work in an Age of Globalization: Troilus and Criseyde and Chaucer's Global Perspective

- Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr.
King Alfred the Great and the Victorian Translations of His Anglo-Saxon Boethius

- Philip Edward Phillips
The Identity of the "Geong Mon" (line 42) in "The Wife's Lament" (or, "The Lament of an Outcast")

- Sung-Il Lee
Origin and Supplement: Marvels and Miracles in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles and Bede's Ecclesiastical History

- Minwoo Yoon
Diagramming Old English Sentences

- Robert D. Stevick
Global Literature, Medieval Literature, and the Popal Vuh

- Richard Scott Nokes

LATE MEDIEVAL ENGLAND (1377-1485):
A Bibliography of Historical Scholarship, 1990-1999
Joel T. Rosenthal

The volume represents the second part of Rosenthal's cataloging of historical scholarship on Ricardian, Lancastrian, and Yorkist England, covering categories from political and legal history to social and intellectual history and the arts. As Rosenthal notes in the introduction, its size (1,888 entries for the decade) "hardly gives much support to those who warn us of the imminent demise of the more traditional lines of historical endeavor and inquiry."

PROCEEDINGS OF THE PSEUDO SOCIETY
First Series, 1986-93
Edited by Richard R. Ring and Richard Kay

Of all the learned societies in North America, the Pseudo Society is probably the most disreputable and beloved. Every year at Kalamazoo its members forge and restore the missing links in medieval studies. Long overdue, the present volume collects 23 astonishing break-throughs from the society's early years (1986-1993), plus four more from its predecessor, the American Committee for Jutish Studies (1976) and an appendix listing all the papers presented to date.

" . . . inspired scholarshit . . ." The SCA Broadside

" . . . the New Historicism gone berserk . . ." Postmodern Fashions Newsletter

" No comment . . ." Speculum

MAGISTER PAULUS NIAVIS: Epistole breues,
Epistole mediocres, Epistole longiores
edited by Rand H. Johnson

"During the last two decades of the fifteenth century Paulus Niavis wrote Latin dialogues and letters in the desire to equip students with a sufficient and elegant means of expressing themselves on many aspects of their experiences at the university. . . . For the modern reader the letters witness life and thought at a critical stage of early modern German history."—from the Foreword

LATE MEDIEVAL ENGLAND (1377-1485):
A Bibliography of Historical Scholarship, 1975-1989
Joel T. Rosenthal

"Joel Rosenthal's guide to the scholarly literature of late medieval England is intended to pick up where DeLloyd Guth's bibliography of the period ended. The volume of scholarship that has appeared since 1976 certainly justifies Rosenthal's project, and he has done an admirable job in fulfilling his goals. This will be a valuable reference guide for researchers and students alike."—from Albion

"This volume is essential for all academic libraries, upper-division undergraduate and above"—from Choice (December 1994)

STUDIES IN HONOR OF HANS-ERICH KELLER:
Medieval French and Occitan Literature
and Romance Linguistics
edited by Rupert T. Pickens

Essays on many aspects of medieval French and Occitan literatures and Romance linguistics in tribute to Hans-Erich Keller, one of our most productive and wide-ranging scholars. As a group, they reflect the "state of the art" of medieval French and Occitan studies and Romance linguistics, with varied methodologies and varied conclusions.

"More than many other mélanges, this Festschrift has succeeded in defying incohesiveness. For this the reader will thank the skillful editor, whose task, however, was no doubt made easier by the very subject of the celebration: a scholar's remarkable and remarkably cohesive body of work which in itself, and in the echoes it has received in this Festschrift, constitutes a rich treasury of insights into the Middle Ages."—from The French Review

EARLY PROSE IN FRANCE:
Contexts of Bilingualism and Authority
Jeanette M. A. Beer

This study of some of the earliest examples of French prose is designed to show that prose as a genre did not suddenly appear in the thirteenth century as a result of "diversification" but "had been, for many centuries before the thirteenth, the medium of the clercs. It had been honed by constant use to all manner of functions whether legal, diplomatic, epistolary, or edificatory. . . . Prose had ensured universal comprehension in the serious contexts of life: birth, death, succession, property transfer, communication, and religious devotion."—from the Introduction

"Like her Narrative Conventions of Truth (1981) . . . Beer's Early Prose in France is a finely crafted jewel, handsomely set by the good people in Kalamazoo."—from The French Review

STUDIA OCCITANICA IN MEMORIAM PAUL REMY
edited by Hans-Erich Keller

Two volumes dedicated to the memory of Paul Remy and "having as theme the scientific domain to which he had dedicated his research for nearly forty years: the Occitan literature and language."

"The diverse contributions to this well edited collection are fitting memorial to [Paul Remy]."—from Speculum (July 1989)

Volume I: The Troubadours, pp. x + 371
ISBN 0-918720-71-0 (casebound) $33.00
ISBN 0-918720-74-5 (paperbound) $16.00

Volume II: The Narrative-Philology, pp. xii + 441
ISBN 0-918720-72-9 (casebound) $38.00
ISBN 0-918720-75-3 (paperbound) $18.00

Two-Volume Set
ISBN 0-918720-73-7 (casebound) $70.00
ISBN 0-918720-76-1 (paperbound) $34.00

MEDIEVAL LIVES AND THE HISTORIAN:
Studies in Medieval Prosopography
edited by Neithard Bulst and Jean-Philippe Genet

Proceedings of the First International Interdisciplinary Conference on Medieval Prosopography (Bielefeld, Germany, December 1982).

"Much remains to be done in launching prosopography as a major field or technique of medieval studies, and the Bielefeld conference marks an important beginning."—from Medieval Prosopography 8/2 (Autumn 1987)

STUDIES IN MALORY
edited by James W. Spisak

"While it is true that there are many other important books on Malory, Spisak's collection is likely to be the best single volume on Caxton's Malory for some time to come: no one who undertakes a serious study of Malory's 'holy book' should be without it."—from Quondam et Futurus (Fall 1986)

THE WISDOM OF POETRY: Essays in Early English
Literature in Honor of Morton W. Bloomfield
edited by Larry D. Benson and Siegfried Wenzel

". . . a collection of wise and witty essays by some of our wisest and wittiest scholars in honor of one of our field's wisest wits."

INSULAR, ANGLO-SAXON, AND EARLY
ANGLO-NORMAN MANUSCRIPT ART AT
CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE:
An Illustrated Catalogue
Mildred Budny

Here, for the first time, are made accessible to the general public and to scholars all of the illustrations, decoration, and artists' sketches made in the British Isles up to circa 1100 and contained in the spectacular collection of manuscripts held by the Parker Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. In all, fifty-six manuscripts are described in close detail and illustrated by plates showing nearly 800 whole pages with paintings or drawings, photographed afresh for this publication. The catalogue entries are further enhanced by an extensive report of the methodology by Dr. Budny, an Introduction by former Parker Librarian Dr. R. I. Page, and a Foreword by Sir David Wilson, former Director of the British Museum.

The Catalogue is the culmination of a long-term research project on "The Archaeology of the Book" undertaken by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, directed by Drs. Page and Budny and supported by donors worldwide, including major funding by the Leverhulme Trust. The research work was timed to coincide with a conservation program devoted to the collection, which enabled the examination of the manuscripts by assembled teams of specialists in many fields. The combination of expertise and the opportunity to study the manuscripts while some were disbound, yielded wide-ranging discoveries, which the entries incorporate. As Dr. Budny observes in her Preface and Acknowledgments: "An integrated approach to the manuscripts enabled fresh assessments of their multiple aspects: as carriers of texts, as archaeological artefacts, as works of art, as layers of history, and as monuments of culture. The investigations frequently produced new evidence for assessing their character, date, place of origin, provenance, history, and patterns of use."

Publication of the Catalogue has been supported by grants from the Medieval Institute of Western Michigan University, from the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, and from the Getty Grant Program. The plates are reproduced by permission of the Master and Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and Mildred Budny.

Copyright 1997
Volume I-Text, pp. cvi + 870
Volume II-Illustrations, pp. iv + 766
Two-Volume Set:
ISBN 1-879288-87-7 (casebound only) $300.00
(These volumes are sold only as a set. A special shipping
and handling fee of $15.00 will be imposed for the set.)

MATTHEW PARKER AND HIS BOOKS:
Sandars Lectures in Bibliography Delivered on 14, 16,
and 18 May 1990 at the University of Cambridge
R. I. Page, with photographs by Mildred Budny

Three lectures, presented before the University of Cambridge, that examine Matthew Parker as a noted collector of books, an avid annotator, and a keen student of Old English. In the lectures Dr. Page assesses the evidence for Parker's use of his manuscripts and printed books by drawing upon varied sources, including Parker's very numerous annotations upon their pages, and surveys the archbishop's role in the early-modern rediscovery and recovery of Old English and other medieval sources. Plates accompany the text to illustrate many characteristic aspects of Parker's interventions in his books.

ANGLO-SAXON TEXTUAL ILLUSTRATION:
Photographs of Sixteen Manuscripts
with Descriptions and Index
compiled and edited by Thomas H. Ohlgren

". . . 454 photographs of the illustrations and major decoration of sixteen Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, fully described and indexed, are reproduced here, many for the first time."—from the Preface

Manuscripts included are: the Athelstan Psalter, the Harley Psalter, the Bury Psalter, the Paris Psalter, the Boulogne Gospels, the Arenberg Gospels, the Trinity Gospels, the Eadui Codex, Pembroke College MS 301, the Bury Gospels, the Judith of Flanders Gospels (Pierpont Morgan MSS 709 and 708), the Monte Casino Gospel Book, the Hereford Gospels, the Psychomachia of Prudentius, and the Junius Manuscript.

"[A] splendid addition to the range of reference works available to scholars and students working on Anglo-Saxon manuscript art."—from Leeds Studies in English (1993)

"Because of its wealth of information, detailed index, and remarkably sharp black and white illustrations from the sixteen manuscripts studied, this volume should be of great help to all persons interested in Anglo-Saxon textual illustration."—from Manuscripta 36/3 (1992)

ASTI, an on-line guide to the iconographic subjects inventoried, described, and indexed in Anglo-Saxon Textual Illustration, is available. For information contact: Corpus Infobases, 136 Sumac Drive, West Lafayette, Indiana 47906-2157.

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