The editors of this volume use its title to honor Bonnie Wheeler for her many scholarly achievements and to celebrate her wide-ranging contributions to medieval studies in the United States. There are sections on 'Old and Middle English Literature', 'Arthuriana Then and Now', 'Joan of Arc Then and Now', 'Nuns and Spirituality', and 'Royal Women'. As the editors note in the introduction, the volume 'confirms Bonnie's commitment to the multidisciplinary study of the Middle Ages' and affirms her conviction 'that the medieval and the modern are best viewed not as 'the past' and 'the present' but as interpenetrative categories.'
Author(s): Dorsey Armstrong, Ann W. Astell, Howell Chickering (ed.)
Series: Medieval Institute Publications
Publisher: Western Michigan University
Year: 2013
Language: English
Pages: 280
City: Kalamazoo
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction / Ann W. Astell and Howell Chickering 1
Part 1. Old and Middle English Literature
Kiyoko Nagase and Her 'Grendel’s Mother' / Toshiyuki Takamiya 17
British Chaucer / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen 25
Just How Loathly Is the 'Wyf'?: Deconstructing Chaucer's 'Hag' in 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' / Lorraine Kochanske Stock 34
'Lectio difficilior' and All That: Another Look at Arcite’s Injury / Stephen Stallcup 43
Part 2. Arthuriana Then and Now
Arthurian Bones and English Kings, ca. 1180 – ca. 1550 / Maurice Keen 61
The 'Prophecies of Merlin': Their Originality and Importance / Geoffrey Ashe 71
Notes toward a Reappraisal of Malory's Prose Style / D. Thomas Hanks, Jr. 80
The Scottish 'Lancelot of the Laik' and Malory's 'Morte Darthur': Contrasting Approaches to the Same Story / Edward Donald Kennedy 89
'The Strength of Ten': The Cultural Resonance of Tennyson's 'Sir Galahad' / Alan Lupack 97
Googling the Grail / Donald L. Hoffman and Elizabeth S. Sklar 111
Part 3. Joan of Arc Then and Now
'Because It Was Paris': Joan of Arc’s Attack on Paris Reconsidered / Kelly R. DeVries 123
Warrior not Warmonger: Screen Joans during World War I / Kevin Harty 132
The Drama of Left-Wing Joan: From 'Merlin’s Prophecy' to Hellman's 'Lark' / Nadia Margolis 142
Part 4. Nuns and Spirituality
A Letter to the Abbess of Fontevrault from the Abbot of Clairvaux / Giles Constable 155
The Nuns of Bival in the Thirteenth Century / William Chester Jordan 159
The Sonic Presence of Mary Magdalene at the Last Supper: The Maundy of the Poor at Barking Abbey / Anne Bagnall Yardley 169
The Royal Purple Mantle of El Greco's 'Espolio' / Annemarie Weyl Carr 183
Part 5. Royal Women
Signed, Sealed and Delivered: The Patronage of Constance de France / William W. Clark 201
The Testamentary Strategies of Jeanne d’Évreux: The Endowment of Saint-Denis in 1343 / Elizabeth A. R. Brown 217
Contributors 249
Index 255
