Interstices

by Green, Richard Firth; Mooney, Linne R.; Barratt, Alexandra (CON); Brewer, Charlotte (CON); Burrow, J. A. (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780802087430
• ISBN10: 0802087434
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-04-01
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr

Summary

Breaking new ground in interdisciplinary scholarship of late medieval England, this collection of essays celebrates and addresses the work of renowned medieval scholar A.G. Rigg. George Rigg's interests span medieval Latin, Anglo-Norman, and Middle English literature and philology; the contributors to this volume are an international group of colleagues, students, and friends of Rigg's, whose essays are as wide-ranging as Rigg's own interests. The contributions include: new editions of Middle English texts; an overview of the editions of Chaucer from the nineteenth century to the present which expounds editorial trends through the years; studies of major Middle English writings which cross boundaries into social history and the history of the book; a codicological study of the literary and material evidence for the use of scientific and utilitarian texts in late medieval English manuscripts; and related historical studies. Each essay is anchored in the textual realities that grounded Rigg's own scholarship, and bridge the boundaries between traditional academic disciplines - a crossing of interstices in homage to a teacher, friend, and colleague.

Author Biography

Richard Firth Green is a professor of English at Ohio State University. Linne R. Mooney is a professor of English at the University of Maine.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
DAVID N. KLAUSNER
Preface	xi
Tabula Gratulatoria	xiii
A.G. Rigg's Publications, 1963-2004	xv
MATTHEW D. PONESSE AND DAMIAN FLEMING
'Envoluped In Synne': The Bolton Hours and Its Confessional Formula	3	(12)
ALEXANDRA BARRATT
Critical, Scientific, and Eclectic Editing of Chaucer	15	(29)
CHARLOTTE BREWER
Nonverbal Communication in Medieval England: Some Lexical Problems	44	(11)
J.A. BURROW
John of Glastonbury and Borrowings from the Vernacular	55	(19)
JAMES P. CARLEY
Greeks in England, 1400	74	(25)
DAVID R. CARLSON
Last Words: Latin at the End of the Coufessio Amantis	99	(23)
SIÂN ECHARD
'Lat be thyne Olde ensaumples': Chaucer and Proverbs	122	(15)
DOUGLAS GRAY
The Hermit and the Outlaw: An Edition	137	(30)
RICHARD FIRTH GREEN
Peter Pateshull: One-Time Friar and Poet?	167	(17)
ANNE HUDSON
Manuscript Evidence for the Use of Medieval English Scientific and Utilitarian Texts	184	(19)
LINNE R. MOONEY
Contributors	203	(4)
Index	207