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Title Medieval English and Dutch literatures : the European context : essays in honour of David F. Johnson / edited by Larissa Tracy, Geert H.M. Claassens
Published Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer, Limited, 2022
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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 381 pages) : illustrations
Contents Front cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1: Reconstructing a Lost Manuscript of the Old English Gospels -- 2: The Old English Version of Gregory the Great's Dialogues -- 3: An Unrecorded Copy of Heinrich Krebs's An Anglo-Saxon Version of Gregory's Dialogues -- 4: The Body as Media in Early Medieval England -- 5: Who Snatched Grendel in Beowulf 852b? -- 6: Anchoritism, Intersubjectivity, and Disability in the Liber confortatorius -- 7: Sculpture and Script in the Eighth to Twelfth Centuries
8: Perceval's Name and the Gifts of the Mother -- 9: Ironizing the Love Quest in the Second Part of the Middle Dutch Ferguut -- 10: Multilingualism in Van den vos Reynaerde and its Reception in Reynardus Vulpes -- 11: Three Characters as Narrator in the Roman van Walewein -- 12: Arthurian Marvels in Chaucer's Squire's Tale and the Roman van Walewein -- 13: The Corrector's Lines in the Lower Margin of the Middle Dutch Lanceloet Manuscript -- 14: The Isolation of the Hero and its Consequences in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
15: Passing as Human, Passing as Fay in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- 16: The Lover Caught Between his Mother and his Maiden in Lanseloet van Denemerken -- 17: The 'Rehabilitation' of Guinevere in Malory and the Stanzaic Morte Arthur -- 18: The Importance of Being an Arthurian Mother -- Select Bibliography -- Bibliography of David F. Johnson's Works -- Index -- Tabula Gratulatoria
Summary This collection honours the scholarship of Professor David F. Johnson, exploring the wider view of medieval England and its cultural contracts with the Low Countries, and highlighting common texts, motifs, and themes across the textual traditions of Old English and later medieval romances in both English and Middle Dutch
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Form Electronic book
Author Tracy, Larissa, 1974- editor.
Claassens, Geert H. M., editor.
Johnson, David F. (David Frame), 1956- honouree.
Liuzza, R. M
Bremmer, Rolf H., Jr
Bredehoft, Thomas A
Duke, Rachel C. S
Foys, Martin
Harris, Stephen
Allor, Danielle
Klein, Stacy S
ISBN 9781800106000
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