With contributions by some of the leading scholars in the field, "Words and Works: Studies in Medieval English Language and Literature in Honour of Fred C. Robinson" is a distinguished collection of essays on Old and Middle English literature and textual analysis. Focusing on issues ranging from philology to literary criticism, the essays represent a variety of perspectives in Old and Middle English scholarship. "Words and Works: Studies in Medieval English Language and Literature in Honour of Fred C. Robinson" is a worthy tribute to one of the outstanding figures in Old English scholarship in the last quarter of this century.
Author(s): Peter S. Baker, Nicholas Howe (eds.)
Series: Toronto Old English Series, 10
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Year: 1998
Language: English
Pages: 322
PREFACE vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
ABBREVIATIONS xi
Who Read the Gospels in Old English? / ROY MICHAEL LIUZZA, Tulane University 3
Byrhtferth at Work / MICHAEL LAPIDGE, Cambridge University 25
An "Anser" for Exeter Book Riddle 74 / DANIEL DONOGHUE, Harvard University 45
An Ogre's Arm: Japanese Analogues of "Beowulf" / MICHIKO OGURA, Chiba University 59
Courtliness and Courtesy in "Beowulf" and Elsewhere in English Medieval Literature / ERIC GERALD STANLEY, Oxford University 67
Aedelflaed of Mercia: "Mise en page" / PAUL E. SZARMACH, Western Michigan University 105
Old English Texts and Modern Readers: Notes on Editing and Textual Criticism / HELMUT GNEUSS, University of Munich 127
The "Dream of the Rood" Repunctuated / BRUCE MITCHELL, Oxford University 143
"Maþelian" in Old English Poetry / MATTI RISSANEN, University of Helsinki 159
Apposition and the Subjects of Verb-Initial Clauses / MARY E. BLOCKLEY, University of Texas at Austin 173
The Inflection of Latin Nouns in Old English Texts / PETER S. BAKER, University of Virginia 187
When Lexicography Met the Exeter Book / ROBERTA FRANK, University of Toronto 207
Chaucer's English Rhymes: The "Roman", the "Romaunt", and "The Book of the Duchess" / MARIE BORROFF, Yale University 223
Seeking 'Goddes Pryvetee': Sodomy, Quitting, and Desire in "The Miller's Tale" / DAVID LORENZO BOYD, New York City 243
Why the Monk? / SIEGFRIED WENZEL, University of Pennsylvania 261
The Real Fulk Fitzwarine's Mythical Monster Fights / MARIJANE OSBORN, University of California at Davis 271
Praise and Lament: The Afterlife of Old English Poetry in Auden, Hill, and Gunn / NICHOLAS HOWE, Ohio State University 293
