Description
Book SynopsisA collection of wise and witty essays by some of our wisest and wittiest scholars in honor of one of our field's wisest wits.
Table of ContentsPreface
Understanding an Old English Wisdom Verse:
Maxims II, Lines 10ff by Fred C. Robinson
Sapientia et Fortitudo in the Old English
Judith by Robert E. Kaske
The Drama of
The Wanderer by William Alfred
Of Words and Deeds: The Coastguard's Maxim Once More by Stanley B. Greenfield
The
Beowulf Poet's Sense of History by Roberta Frank
Langland and Some Scriptural Quotations by E. Talbot Donaldson
The Perplexities of William Langland by George Kane
Narration and the Invention of Experience: Episodic Form in
Piers Plowman by Anne Middleton
The Occasion of
The Parliament of Fowls by Larry D. Benson
Venus in the "north-north-west"? Chaucer's
Parliament of Fowls, 117 by Alan J. Lazarus
The Philosophies in Chaucer's
Troilus by Donald R. Howard
Miracles of the Virgin, Medieval Anti-Semitism, and the "Prioress's Tale" by Robert Worth Frank Jr.
Chaucer's Lists by Stephen A. Barney
The Wisdom of the Fool by Siegfried Wenzel
The Publications of Morton W. Bloomfield: 1939–1981 by George Hardin Brown
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