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Articles
Author(s) Title Reference
Mildred K. Pope NOTES ON SOME AMBIGUOUS PASSAGES IN THE "CHANSON DE ROLAND" 5/1, p. 1
Joseph L. Baird UNFERTH THE "PYLE" 39/1, p. 1
JAMES WADE Abduction, surgery, madness: an account of a little red man in Thomas Walsingham’s Chronica maiora 77/1, p. 10
Murray Copland THE SHIPMAN'S TALE: CHAUCER AND BOCCACCIO 35/1, p. 11
Murray Copland THE REEVE'S TALE: HARLOTRIE OR SERMONYNG? 31/1, p. 14
MARY DOVE GAWAIN AND THE "BLASME DES FEMMES" TRADITION 41/1, p. 20
Joseph E. Gallagher THE DOUBLE SORROW OF TROILUS 41/1, p. 39
G.N. BROMILEY THE MAKING OF BEROUL'S "TRISTAN": THE ROLE OF REPETITION 54/1, p. 47
Linda M. Paterson TOURNAMENTS AND KNIGHTLY SPORTS IN TWELFTH- AND THIRTEENTH-CENTURY OCCITANIA 55/1, p. 72
Miranda Griffin The space of transformation: Merlin between two deaths 80/2, p. 85
W. Rothwell MEDIÆVAL FRENCH "BUREAU" 29/2, p. 102
C.T. Onions MIDDLE ENGLISH "GAWNE": A CORRECTION, WITH SOME NOTES 22/2, p. 111
Edward M. Wilson

WORD PLAY AND THE INTERPRETATION OF "PEARL"

 		40/2, p. 116
BARBARA N. SARGENT-BAUR MEDIÆVAL RIRE, RIDERE: A LAUGHING MATTER? 43/2, p. 116
Stanley B. Greenfield THE ROLE OF CALKAS IN "TROILUS AND CRISEYDE" 36/2, p. 141
L. Whitbread A NOTE ON "WULF AND EADWACER" 10/3, p. 150
T.D. CRAWFORD ON THE LINGUISTIC COMPETENCE OF GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH 51/2, p. 152
P.J. Frankis DEOR AND "WULF AND EADWACER" : SOME CONJECTURES 31/3, p. 161
WILLIAM A. QUINN THE PSYCHOLOGY OF "ST ERKENWALD" 53/2, p. 180
Jane L. Curry APPROACHES TO A TRANSLATION OF THE ANGLO-SAXON "THE WIFE'S LAMENT" 35/3, p. 187
Avril Henry TEMPTATION AND HUNT IN "SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT" 45/2, p. 187
MARTHA WALLEN SIGNIFICANT VARIATIONS IN THE BURGUNDIAN PROSE VERSION OF "EREC ET ENIDE" 51/2, p. 187
Nigel Harris THE PRESENTATION OF CLERICAL CHARACTERS IN HARTMANN'S "GREGORIUS" AND IN THE "VIE DU PAPE SAINT GREGOIRE" 64/2, p. 189
CHARLOTTE BREWER Z AND THE A- B- AND C-TEXTS OF "PIERS PLOWMAN" 53/2, p. 194
Stephen L. Wailes STUDENTS AS LOVERS IN THE GERMAN FABLIAU 46/2, p. 196
B.K. Martin "SIR LAUNFAL" AND THE FOLKTALE 35/3, p. 199
R.E. Kaske THE READING "GENYRE" IN "THE HUSBAND'S MESSAGE" LINE 49 33/3, p. 204
Stephen J. Miko MALORY AND THE CHIVALRIC ORDER 35/3, p. 211
Maldwyn Mills HAVELOK AND THE BRUTAL FISHERMAN 36/3, p. 219
James L. Rosier A TEXTUAL AMBIGUITY IN "BEOWULF: STOD ON STAPOLE" 34/3, p. 223
CATHERINE LA FARGE CONVERSATION IN MALORY'S "MORTE DARTHUR" 56/2, p. 225
JOHN NORTON-SMITH EKPHRASIS AS A STYLISTIC ELEMENT IN DOUGLAS'S "PALIS OF HONOURE" 48/2, p. 240
PHILLIPA HARDMAN Gawain's practice of piety in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 68/2, p. 247
N.R. HAVELY WHITE WORDS, FALSE WORLD: CHAUCER'S PANDARUS AND THE ANTIFRATERNAL TRADITION IN "TROILUS", BOOKS I-III 61/2, p. 250
R.J. Lyall DUNBAR AND THE FRANCISCANS 46/2, p. 253
Richard Spencer THE "COURTOIS-VILAIN" NEXUS IN "LA MALE HONTE" 37/3, p. 272
Peter J. Lucas TOWARDS AN INTERPRETATION OF "SIR LAUNFAL" WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO LINE 683 39/3, p. 291
M.R. Golding THE IMPORTANCE OF KEEPING 'TROUTHE' IN "THE FRANKLIN'S TALE" 39/3, p. 306
Reviews
Author(s) Title Reference
R. Bruce Mitchell The Concessive Relation in Old English Poetry. Yale Studies in English 124, by Randolph Quirk 25/1, p. 36
J.E. Cross Structural Principles in Old English Poetry, by Neil D. Isaacs 39/1, p. 41
J.E. Cross The Interpretation of Old English Poems, by Stanley B. Greenfield 43/1, p. 42
C.J.E. Ball Anglo-Saxon Riddles of the Exeter Book, by Paull F. Baum 34/1, p. 46
Nevill Coghill The Characterisation of Pilate in the Towneley Plays, by Arnold Williams 21/, p. 53
Eric Stanley The Seafarer, by Ida L. Gordon 31/1, p. 54
Rachel Bromwich Medieval Welsh Lyrics, by Joseph P. Clancy 36/1, p. 62
R.A. Browne Dialogus de Scaccario by Richard, Son of Nigel (Nelson's Medieval Classics), by Charles Johnson 20/, p. 75
Edward M. Wilson Juan Ruiz: The Book of Good Love, by Rigo Mignani, Mario A. Di Cesare 40/1, p. 80
M.S. The Old French epic, by Jessie Crosland 21/, p. 83
P.M. Kean The Realism of Dream Visions: the Poetic Exploitation of the Dream-Experience in Chaucer and his Contemporaries, by Constance B. Hieatt 38/1, p. 85
Cecily Clark Art and Tradition in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, by Larry D. Benson 36/1, p. 89
John Stevens Themes and Images in the Medieval English Religions Lyric, by Douglas Gray
W. Nelson John Skelton's Poetry, by Stanley Eugene Fish 36/1, p. 96
Joan Turville-Petre Beowulf in Modern English: a translation in blank verse, by Mary E. Waterhouse 20/, p. 101
MARK GRIFFITH Rereading Beowulf, by Edward B. Irving Jr. 60/1, p. 102
G.V. Smithers Syntax and Style in Old English, by S. O. Andrew 12/, p. 104
Kenneth R. Brooks Cynewulf's Elene, by P. O. E. Gradon 28/2, p. 108
Peter J. Lucas Finnsburh Fragment and Episode. (Methuen's Old English Library), by Donald K. Fry 46/1, p. 108
Norman Klassen Suzannah Biernoff Sight and Embodiment in the Middle Ages 73/1, p. 112
Norman Klassen The Tempter's Voice: Language and the Fall in Medieval Literature, by Eric Jager 65/1, p. 113
Peter N. Dunn The Art of Juan Ruiz, Archpriest of Hita, Estudios de Literatura, by Anthony N. Zahareas 37/1, p. 117
RICHARD FIRTH GREEN A Guide to Early Irish Law (Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1988), by Fergus Kelly 62/1, p. 118
D.S. Brewer Early Middle English Texts. (2nd ed.), by Bruce Dickins, R. M. Wilson 22/2, p. 119
Barry Windeatt The Making of 'Piers Plowman', by Malcolm Godden 61/1, p. 120
Leslie C. Brook Andreas and the Ambiguity of Courtly Love, by Paolo Cherchi 65/1, p. 120
Ann Squires M. A. D'Aronco and M. L. Cameron (ed.), The Old English Illustrated Pharmacopoeia: British Library Cotton Vitellius C III, Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile 27 69/1, p. 122
GERALD MORGAN Chaucer's Franklin in 'The Canterbury Tales': the Social and Literary Background of a Chaucerian Character, by Henrik Specht 52/1, p. 125
MICHEL MOOS 'Yvain' dans le miroir: une poétique de la réflexion dans le 'Chevalier au lion' de Chrétien de Troyes, Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 25, by Joan Tasker Grimbert 60/1, p. 127
Daniel Anlezark Scott Gwara, Heroic Identity in the World of Beowulf 80/2, p. 128
GERALD MORGAN Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde', by C. David Benson 61/1, p. 128
CONRAD VAN DIJK B. W. Lindeboom, Venus' Owne Clerk: Chaucer's Debt to the 'Confessio Amantis', Costerus, NS 167 77/1, p. 129
TONY DAVENPORT Corinne Saunders, Magic and the Supernatural in Medieval English Romance 80/2, p. 133
Helen Cooper The Merveilleux in Chrétien de Troyes' Romances. (Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire 153), by Lucienne Carasso-Bulow 47/1, p. 133
Nicolas Jacobs Gerald Morgan, The Tragic Argument of ‘Troilus and Criseyde’ 78/1, p. 134
Joan Crow Sur la 'Farce de Maître Pierre Pathelin', Collection Unichamp, 13, by Jean Dufournet, Michel Rousse 57/1, p. 136
P.J.C. Field Trawthe and Treason: the Sin of Gawain Reconsidered, by W. R. J. Barron 52/1, p. 136
RUTH E. HARVEY William E. Burgwinkle, Love for Sale: Materialist Readings of the Troubadour Razo Corpus, The New Middle Ages 5 68/1, p. 136
Rosemary Cramp Colum's Other Island. The Irish at Lindisfarne, by Gareth W. Dunleavy 31/2, p. 137
Almut Suerbaum Cornelia Reil, Liebe und Herrschaft: Studien zum altfranzösischen und mittelhochdeutschen Prosa-Lancelot, Hermaea NS 78 68/1, p. 140
Spencer Pearce The Poetry of Guido Cavalcanti, Garland Library of Medieval Literature, Series A, 18, by Lowry Nelson Jr. 57/1, p. 141
ELISABETH SCHULZE-BUSACKER Jeanne-Marie Boivin, Naissance de la fable: L'Isopet de Lyon et l'Isopet I — Avionnet, Essais sur le Moyen Âge 33 77/1, p. 141
Daniel Anlezark Mark C. Amodio, Writing the Oral Tradition: Oral Poetics and Literate Culture in Medieval England 75/1, p. 144
Leslie C. Brook Sahar Amer, Ésope au féminin: Marie de France et la politique de l'interculturalité, Faux Titre 169 70/1, p. 146
MARIANNE AILES Anne Elizabeth Cobby, Ambivalent Conventions: Formula and Parody in Old French, Faux Titre 101, Études de Langue et Littérature Françaises 67/1, p. 146
Daron Burrows Roy J. Pearcy, Logic and Humour in the Fabliaux: An Essay in Applied Narratology 79/1, p. 146
Margaret E. Goldsmith Old English Verse, by T. A. Shippey 43/2, p. 147
Fionnùala E. Sinclair Sarah Kay, The Chansons de Geste in the Age of Romance: Political Fictions 66/1, p. 147
J.A.W. Bennett On the Properties of Things. John Trevisa's translation of 'Bartholomæus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum', by M. C. Seymour, Gabriel M. Liegey, E. Brockhurst, M. H. Blechner, Ralph Hanna III, J. E. Grennen, M. Andrew, J. D. Pheifer, A. S. G. Edwards,, T. Lawler, N. A. Hunt, P. P. Farley, D. C. Greetham, B. D. Harder, V. E. Watts, M. Farnsworth, J. I. Miller 49/1, p. 149
Douglas Gray Religiöse Dichtung im englischen Hochmittelalter. Untersuchung und Edition der Handschrift B. 14. 39 des Trinity College in Cambridge, Texte und Untersuchungen zur Englischen Philologie, 1, by Karl Reichl 52/1, p. 151
GERALDINE McKENDRICK The Guitar of God: Gender, Power, and Authority in the Visionary World of Mother Juana de la Cruz (1481-1534), by Ronald E. Surtz 62/1, p. 153
VIRGINIE GREENE Norris J. Lacy and Joan Tasker Grimbert (eds), A Companion to Chrétien de Troyes, Arthurian Studies 63 75/1, p. 154
J.F. Kiteley Medieval Sign Theory and 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight', by Ross G. Arthur 59/1, p. 155
CHRISTIAN KIENING Michael Stolz, 'Tum'-Studien: zur dichterischen Gestaltung im Marienpreis Heinrichs von Mügeln, Bibliotheca Germanica 36 68/1, p. 155
Miri Rubin The Pregnant Man, 4th edn, by R. Zapperi, B. Williams 61/1, p. 156
G.D.G. Hall

The Medieval Coroner, by R. F. Hunnisett

 		33/2, p. 160
Dennis Green Cornelia Schu, Vom erzählten Abenteuer zum Abenteuer des Erzählens: Überlegungen zur Romanhaftigkeit von Wolframs Parzival 72/1, p. 165
KAREN PRATT Commentaire sur 'Yvain' ('Le Chevalier au lion') de Chrétien de Troyes, I and II, by Brian Woledge 59/1, p. 166
Richard North John McKinnell, Both One and Many: Essays on Change and Variety in Late Norse Heathenism, with an appendix by Maria Elena Ruggerini 66/1, p. 166
CEDRIC E. PICKFORD Lion-Queue-Coupée: l'écart symbolique chez Chrétien de Troyes. (Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire. 124), by Peter Haidu 43/2, p. 167
Leslie C. Brook The Legacy of Chrétien de Troyes, Vol. I, by Norris J. Lacy, Douglas Kelly, Keith Busby 58/1, p. 168
JENNIFER PETRIE Petrarch the Poet: An introduction to the 'Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta', by Peter Hainsworth 59/1, p. 174
David Hook Seneca and 'Celestina', by Louise Fothergill-Payne 59/1, p. 175
R. Bruce Mitchell A Descriptive Syntax of the Old English Charters, by Charles Carlton 40/2, p. 181
Dorothy Bethurum Loomis Toe Parlement of Foulys, (Nelson's Mediaeval and Renaissance Library), by D. S. Brewer 30/3, p. 195
Ian Bishop The Pearl: An Interpretation, by P. M. Kean 37/2, p. 207
D. Nicholl Ireland, Harbinger of the Middle Ages, by Ludwig Bieler 33/3, p. 207
Margaret E. Goldsmith Beowulf: the Poem and its Tradition, by John D. Niles 55/2, p. 266
D.D.R. Owen Charlemagne et l'épopée romane (Actes du VIIeCongrès International de la Société Rencesvals, Liège 1976). 2 tom 49/2, p. 279
S.T. Knight The Autobiographical fallacy in Chaucer and Langland Studies, by George Kane 36/3, p. 282
Stephen Gersh Porphyry the Phoenician: Isagoge, (Mediaeval Sources in Translation 16), by Edward W. Warren 46/2, p. 286
ANNA BALDWIN Justice and Mercy in Piers Plowman: a Reading of the B Text Visio, by Myra Stokes 55/2, p. 290
STEFANIA D'OTTAVI The High Medieval Dream Vision: Poetry, Philosophy and Literary Form, by Kathryn L. Lynch 59/2, p. 299
RITA COPELAND Christopher Cannon, The Making of Chaucer's English: A Study of Words, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 39 69/2, p. 301
A.J. Bliss The Meter and Melody of Beowulf. (Illinois Studies in Language and Literature 64), by Thomas Cable
ROSEMARY MORRIS The Legend of Arthur in the Middle Ages, Arthurian Studies, by P. B. Grout, R. A. Lodge, C. E. Pickford, E. K. C. Varty 55/2, p. 304
Andy Orchard In the Foreground: 'Beowulf', by Eric Gerald Stanley 64/2, p. 311
Sarah Kay The Troubadour Lyric: a Psychocritical Reading, by Rouben Cholakian 60/2, p. 313
P.M. Kean The Search for St. Truth. A Study of Meaning in 'Piers Plowman', by Mary Carruthers 44/3, p. 313
C.W. MARX The York Plays, York Medieval Texts, second series, by Richard Beadle 54/2, p. 316
ALCUIN BLAMIRES 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' and the Idea of Righteousness, Dublin Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature, by Gerald Morgan 61/2, p. 317
PETER DAMIAN-GRINT Emily Albu, The Normans in their Histories: Propaganda, Myth and Subversion 71/2, p. 319
Olive Sayce A Short Descriptive Grammar of Middle High German with Texts and Vocabulary, by John A. Asher 38/3, p. 320
J.A. Miller The Artist at Work: Narrative Technique in Chrétien de Troyes, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 78:4, by Evelyn Mullally 59/2, p. 321
Anne Hudson English Wyclif Tracts 1-3, Studia Anglistica Norvegica, 5, by Conrad Lindberg 61/2, p. 323
TONY DAVENPORT J. J. Anderson, Language and Imagination in the Gawain-Poems 75/2, p. 327
EDWARD WHEATLEY D. Vance Smith, The Book of the Incipit: Beginnings in the Fourteenth Century 71/2, p. 331
BARBARA N. SARGENT-BAUR Recueil des repues franches de Maistre François Villon et de ses compagnons, Textes littéraires français 455, by Jelle Koopmans, Paul Verhuyck 65/2, p. 334
John Fox Villon hier et aujourd'hui: Actes du colloque pour le cinq-centième anniversaire de l'impression du 'Testament' de Villon, by Jean Dérens, Jean Dufournet, Michael Freeman 64/2, p. 335
PETER HAINSWORTH Five Frames for the 'Decameron': Communications and Social Systems in the 'Cornice', by Joy Hambuechen Potter 53/2, p. 336
Daniel Anlezark Richard North, The Origins of ‘Beowulf’: From Vergil to Wiglaf 77/2, p. 337
JONATHAN H. HSY Diane Watt, Amoral Gower: Language, Sex, and Politics 73/2, p. 338
A. Kent Hieatt The Renaissance Chaucer, by Alice S. Miskimin
SANDRA BIALYSTOK Thomas C. Stillinger and F. Regina Psaki (eds), Boccaccio and Feminist Criticism, Annali d'Italianistica: Studi e testi 8 76/2, p. 339
Leslie Seiffert The Medieval German Lyric 1150-1300: the Development of its Themes and Forms in their European Context, by Olive Sayce 52/2, p. 339
NICOLETTE ZEEMAN Madeleine Kasten, In Search of ‘Kynde Knowynge’: ‘Piers Plowman’ and the Origin of Allegory 77/2, p. 340
P.R. COSS Richard W. Kaeuper, Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe 69/2, p. 342
Laura Jose Holly A. Crocker, Chaucer’s Visions of Manhood 80/1, p. 344
Avril Henry Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. (Manchester Medieval Texts), by W. R. J. Barron
ROGER PENSOM Finn E. Sinclair, Milk and Blood: Gender and Genealogy in the ‘Chanson de Geste’ 73/2, p. 348
JENNIFER PETRIE Petrarch's Laurels, by Sara Sturm-Maddox 63/2, p. 348
WILLIAM J. JONES Begriffsglossar und Index zu Ulrichs von Zatzikhoven ‘Lanzelet’, Indices zur deutschen Literatur 25, by Klaus M. Schmidt 63/2, p. 350
Dennis Green Christoph Huber, Burghart Wachinger, and Hans-Joachim Ziegeler (eds), Geistliches in weltlicher und Weltliches in geistlicher Literatur des Mittelalters 70/2, p. 352
F.W. Marshall Four Farces, by Barbara C. Bowen 37/3, p. 357
R. Bruce Mitchell A Descriptive Syntax of the Ormulum, by Robert A. Palmatier 39/3, p. 370
Review Articles
Author(s) Title Reference
John Fox A CONTESTED WILL - VILLON'S "TESTAMENT" 62/1, p. 87
David G. Pattison "LA CELESTINA": A NEW EDITION AND THREE OLD QUESTIONS 62/1, p. 100
M.M. Badawi On the Art of Medieval Arabic Literature, by Andras Hamori 46/2, p. 259
Books Received
Author(s) Title Reference
BOOKS RECEIVED 49/1, p. 170
Notes
Author(s) Title Reference
SCOTT GWARA AN ONOMASTIC PUN IN A TENTH-CENTURY ANGLO-LATIN POEM 63/1, p. 99
J.R. THORNE PIERS OR WILL: CONFUSION OF IDENTITY IN THE EARLY RECEPTION OF "PIERS PLOWMAN" 60/2, p. 273
M.C. CORCORAN AMBIGUOUS VOCABULARY AND EXPRESSION OF EMOTION IN GIRAUT DE BORNELH'S "GEN M'ATEN" 59/2, p. 275
TERENCE McCARTHY DID MORGAN LE FAY HAVE A LOVER? 60/2, p. 284