People and Texts : Relationships in Medieval Literature. Studies presented to Erik Kooper.
Title:
People and Texts : Relationships in Medieval Literature. Studies presented to Erik Kooper.
Author:
Summerfield, Thea,.
ISBN:
9789401203920
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (218 pages)
Series:
Costerus NS, 166 ; v.166
Costerus NS, 166
Contents:
Contents -- Abbreviations -- Illustrations -- Preface -- The Human Condition, Friendship and Love: The Epic of Gilgamesh and Medieval Arthurian Romance -- Kin: Hector and Lancelot in Part 3 of the Prose Lancelot -- The Gesta Herewardi: Transforming an Anglo-Saxon into an Englishman -- Erec, le Fiz Lac (British Libary, Harley 4971) -- Textual and Familial Relationships: The Place of the Michigan Fragment in the Evolution of Sir Eglamour -- Robert de Sorbon on Men, Women and Marriage. The Testimony of his De Matrimonio and Other Works -- Caroline Spurgeon and her Relationship to Chaucer. The Text of her Viva Presentation at the Sorbonne -- Wynnere and Wastoure 407-414 and Le Roman de la Rose 8813-8854 -- The Twenty-Five Ploughs of Sir John: The Tale of Gamelyn and The Implications of Acreage -- The Trojans in the Writings of Wace and Benoît de Sainte-Maure -- Gawain's Family and Friends: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Its Allusions to French Prose Romances -- A Lancashire Lease -- All human life is here: Relationships in Het Spel van Sinnen van Lazarus Doot -- Teaching a Young King about History. William Stewart's Metrical Chronicle and King James V of Scotland -- Select Bibliography of the Writings of Erik Kooper.
Abstract:
Relationships between people and texts form the focus of the studies collected in this book. It was presented to Erik Kooper in recognition of his lifelong efforts to bring together people from universities worldwide. It will be of special interest to scholars and students of Arthurian and Middle English literature, codicologists, scholars interested in medieval Latin sermons and the Gesta Herewardi , in medieval drama and in texts in Middle English, among them Sir Gawain and the Green Knight , Wynnere and Wastoure , Sir Eglamour , the Tale of Gamelyn , and, in Scots, the metrical chronicle of William Stewart. Articles on early twentieth-century Chaucerian scholarship and on many of the Old French Arthurian romances as well as the writings of Wace and Benoît de Sainte-Maure are also included.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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