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Book SynopsisWilliam W. Kibler is one of the most productive and versatile medievalists of his generation. Some scholars and students think of him primarily as a specialist in the medieval epic, whereas others consider him to be an Arthurian scholar. He is of course both, but he is also much more: a consummate philologist and editor of texts and also a prolific and accomplished translator. Above all, those who know him best know him as an extraordinarily generous and modest man. The present volume represents an effort by thirty medievalists, specialists in fields as diverse as William Kibler’s interests, to indicate our respect for him, aptly described in the foreword as “scholar, teacher, friend.”
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Thelma S. Fenster: Foreword: William W. Kibler: Scholar, Teacher, Friend Publications by William W. Kibler Tabula Gratulatoria Philip E. Bennett: Once and Future Monuments: Knights’ and Lovers’ Tombs in Medieval French Romance Maureen Boulton: Herman de Valenciennes and the Invention of Pious Epic Gerard J. Brault: The Twelve Peers: Charlemagne’s Elite Combatants in the Song of Roland Keith Busby: Text and Image in the Getty Tundale William Calin: A French Legacy in Scotland: Arthurian Romance Carleton W. Carroll: Tentative de réhabilitation d’un manuscrit mal famé d’Erec et Enide: Chantilly, Musée Condé 472 (A) Carol J. Chase: Beginnings and Endings: The Frontiers of the Text in the Prose Joseph d’Arimathie Robert Francis Cook: Anomalous Rhyme Sequences in the Venice-Four Roland Joseph J. Duggan: Turoldus, Scribe or Author? Evidence from the Corpus of Chansons de Geste Joan Tasker Grimbert: Audience Expectations and Unexpected Developments in Marie de France’s Le Laüstic Bernard Guidot: Traits novateurs, initiatives, intuitions et saillies d’Alfred Delvau dans sa réécriture d’Ogier le Danois Edward A. Heinemann: On the Art of the Laisse in the Charroi de Nîmes: Laisses XXIX–XXXII Tony Hunt: Isidorus anglo-normannice Catherine M. Jones: Of Giants and Griffons: Narrative and Lineal Disruptions in Gaufrey Norris J. Lacy: Labyrinth and Maze: The Shapes of Arthurian Romance June Hall McCash: Melion and Bisclavret: The Presence and Absence of Arthur Jacques E. Merceron: Étymologie et légendes toponymiques dans l’épopée médiévale et dans la tradition orale moderne Emanuel J. Mickel: The Three Godfreys and the Old French Crusade Cycle Leslie Zarker Morgan: War is Hell (for Saracens): A Footnote to Aspremont’s Afterlife in Italy Rupert T. Pickens: Anomaly and Ambiguity in Marie de France’s Fresne Elizabeth W. Poe: The Sultan’s Salutz in the Continuation of Partonopeu de Blois Samuel N. Rosenberg: Translating the Prose Lancelot Mary Jane Schenck: Image, Text, Life: La Vie de Saint Gilles and Charlemagne François Suard: La Fille du comte de Ponthieu: transgression, parole et silence Jean Subrenat: Le Drame de Roncevaux: De La Chanson de Roland à la “chanson d’aventures” Jean-Claude Vallecalle: La Divination dans les Chansons de Geste franco-italiennes du XIVe siècle Logan E. Whalen: The “Lai de Joie” as Intertext in Chrétien de Troyes’s Erec et Enide Monica L. Wright: Wearing Hearts on Sleeves: Clothes and Pathos in Chrétien and Marie
