Words and Works: Studies in Medieval English Language and Literature in Honour of Fred C. Robinson

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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. 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