Studies in Late Medieval And Early Renaissance Texts in Honour of John Scattergood

by D'Arcy, Anne Marie; Fletcher, Alan

• ISBN13: 9781851829293
• ISBN10: 1851829296
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-11-19
• Publisher: Four Courts Press

Summary

Essays published in honour of the Trinity College-based scholar who has been at the forefront of Middle English studies in Ireland for many years. Contents as follows: David Aers on the Testimony of William Thorpe - Valerie Allen on tournament and toxophily in late-medieval England - Julia Boffey on Chaucer's fortune in the 1530s - John A. Burrow Chaucer's Book of the duchess - Helen Conrad-O'Briain Sir Orfeo - Helen Cooper The date of the Auchinleck manuscript - Anne Marie D'Arcy Henryson's The testament of Cresseid - A.S.G. Edwards The Canterbury tales - Richard Firth Green 'The hunting of the hare' - Alan J. Fletcher The pearl - Ralph Hanna Some TCD manuscripts - Angela M. Lucas on Chaucer's Franklin's tale - Peter J. Lucas on Capgrave's The solace of pilgrimes - Alastair J. Minnis Piers Plowman - Charlotte C. Morse Scenes of farewell in the middle ages - Derek Pearsall The flower and the leaf and The assembly of ladies - Helen Phillips Remembering Edward I - Oliver S. Pickering The Alphabetical praise of womenÃ?Â?Ã?Â?Wendy Scase on MS Harley 2253 - James Simpson on Caxton's History of Reynard the fox - Myra Stokes on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - John J. Thompson Manuscripts and texts associated with John Stow - Thorlac Turville-Petre on St Erkenwald - Greg Walker The Plowman's tale.

Table of Contents

List of abbreviations	7	(2)
List of contributors	9	(4)
Preface	13	(2)
John Scattergood Publications	15	(6)
The Testimony of William Thorpe: Reflections on Self, Sin and Salvation	21	(14)
David Aers
Playing Soldiers: Tournament and Toxophily in Late-Medieval England	35	(18)
Valerie Allen
Chaucer's Fortune in the 1530s: Some Sixteenth-Century Recycling	53	(12)
Julia Boffey
Politeness and Privacy: Chaucer's Book of the Duchess	65	(11)
J.A. Burrow
Some Reflections on Sir Orfeo's Poetic Mirror of Polity	76	(15)
Helen Conrad-O'Briain
Lancelot, Roger Mortimer and the Date of the Auchinleck Manuscript	91	(9)
Helen Cooper
`Into the kirk wald not hir self present': Leprosy, Blasphemy and Heresy in Henryson's The Testament of Cresseid	100	(21)
Anne Marie D'Arcy
A New Text of The Canterbury Tales?	121	(8)
A.S.G. Edwards
The Hunting of the Hare: An Edition	129	(19)
Richard Firth Green
Pearl and the Limits of History	148	(23)
Alan J. Fletcher
Notes on Some Trinity College Dublin Manuscripts	171	(10)
Ralph Hanna
`But if a man be vertuous withal': Has Aurelius in Chaucer's Franklin's Tale `lerned gentillesse aright?'	181	(20)
Angela M. Lucas
An Englishman in Rome: Capgrave's 1450-Jubilee Guide, The Solace of Pilgrimes	201	(17)
Peter J. Lucas
Piers' Protean Pardon: The Letter and Spirit of Langland's Theology of Indulgences	218	(23)
Alastair J. Minnis
Scenes of Farewell in the Middle Ages	241	(18)
Charlotte C. Morse
The Flower and the Leaf and the Assembly of Ladies: A Revisitation	259	(11)
Derek Pearsall
Remembering Edward I	270	(17)
Helen Phillips
Stanzaic Verse in the Auchinleck Manuscript: The Alphabetical Praise of Women	287	(18)
Oliver Pickering
`Satire on the Retinues of the Great' (MS Harley 2253): Unpaid Bills and the Politics of Purveyance	305	(16)
Wendy Scase
Consuming Ethics: Caxton's History of Reynard the Fox	321	(16)
James Simpson
Gawain the Good	337	(16)
Myra Stokes
Patch and Repair and Making Do in Manuscripts and Texts Associated with John Stow	353	(9)
John J. Thompson
St Erkenwald and the Crafty Chronicles	362	(13)
Thorlac Turville-Petre
The Textual Archaeology of The Plowman's Tale	375	(28)
Greg Walker
Index of manuscripts	403	(2)
Index	405