The present volume was compiled and presented as a tribute to Katalin Halácsy on the occasion of her 65th birthday. The purpose of the contributors to this Festschrift is to express our appreciation for all that she has accomplished through her various endeavours in Medieval Studies and for her invaluable contribution to the study of medieval English literature in Hungary.
Author(s): Zsuzsanna Simonkay, Andrea Nagy (eds.)
Publisher: MondAt
Year: 2015
Language: English
Pages: 336
City: Budapest
Acknowledgements 11
Tabula Gratulatoria 13
Preface 15
Károly Pintér / A Spring Break and the Next Twenty-Five Years 17
Ágnes Kiricsi / Laudatio 20
Tibor Tarcsay / Vera Doctrina 21
Paul Mommaers / A Misunderstood Theme: God, the Unknowable 25
Paul E. Szarmach / The Life of Martin in Cambridge, Pembroke College 25 39
Matti Kilpiö / Gildas' "De excidio Britanniae" and "Beowulf": With Special Reference to "Beo" 3069–75 47
Joyce Hill / The Selection of Saints' Lives in Ælfric's "Catholic Homilies" 61
Lilla Kopár / Heroes on the Fringes of the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Corpus: Vernacular Memorial Inscriptions on Stone Sculpture 85
Monika Kirner-Ludwig / No Heroes and Saints without Villains and Misbelievers: Onomasiological and Lexico-Semantic Considerations Regarding Old English Compounds that Put the VIKING into Words 121
László Kristó / English Place-Names: Unknown Heroes in the Story of Closed Syllable Shortening? 153
Anikó Daróczi / The Coherence of Form and Content in Hadewijch: The Importance of Modality in Medieval Songs 163
Zsuzsanna Simonkay / False Brotherhood in Chaucer's "The Knight’s Tale," Part 2: Palamon and Arcite – False Friends Will Be Friends 187
Mátyás Bánhegyi / Chaucer the Translator: A Medieval Forerunner of Modern Translation Theorists 203
Zsuzsanna Péri-Nagy / Nicholas Love's "Mirrour": Some Directions towards Meditation and Contemplation 213
Tamás Karáth / Women Not to Preach?: Margery Kempe as an Unlicensed Preacher 229
Benedek Péter Tóta / Sir Gawain and Ted Hughes: Neither Heroes nor Saints yet Canonised: Contextualising Hughes’s Rendering of a Passage from "Gawain" 249
Kinga Földváry / Medieval Heroes, Shakespearean Villains – Modern Saints? 269
Géza Kállay / The Villain as Tragic Hero: "Macbeth" and Emmanuel Levinas' Metaphysical Reading of Shakespeare 283
Boldizsár Fejérvári / Chatterton’s Middle Ages: The Power Economics of the Chatterton vs. Walpole Affair 297
Júlia Bácskai-Atkári / Narratives of the Medieval in Walter Scott's Ballads 323
