Medieval alliterative poetry : essays in honour of Thorlac Turville-Petre / John A. Burrow & Hoyt N. Duggan, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burrow, J. A. (John Anthony)

Duggan, Hoyt N.

Turville-Petre, Thorlac

Albert E. Visk, W'28, Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--Middle English, 1110-1500--History and criticism.

English poetry.

Alliteration.

Turville-Petre, Thorlac.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

229 pages : 1 portrait ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Dublin ; Portland, OR : Four Courts Press, 2010.

Contents:

Thorlac Turville-Petre's publications

The view from Nottingham / Nicola Royan & Judith Jesch

1. Langland and the Devotio Moderna: a spiritual kinship / Robert Adams

2. The new lives of Piers Plowman / John A. Burrow

3. Alliterative wombs / Michael Calabrese

4. The end of the line / Hoyt N. Duggan

5. The Blage manuscript and alliterative verse in the sixteenth century / A.S.G. Edwards

6. Alliterative poetry in old Jerusalem: the Siege of Jerusalem and its sources / Andrew Galloway

7. Humphrey and the werewolf / Richard F. Green

8. The Tree of Charity - again / Ralph Hanna

9. Divisions, collaboration and other topics: the table of contents in Cambridge, University Library, MS Gg.4.31 / Judith A. Jefferson

10. The poetic character of the C-text of Piers Plowman / Derek Pearsall

11. Cleanness and the tradition of biblical versification / Ad Putter

12. The alliterative Awntyrs stanza in Older Scots verse / Nicola Royan

13. On the road: Langland and some medieval outlaw stories / John Scattergood

14. The sacramental significance of blood in Piers Plowman / A.V.C. Schmidt.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Albert E. Visk, W'28, Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

1846821800

9781846821806

OCLC:

573322673

Publisher Number:

99946472457