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Medieval alliterative poetry : essays in honour of Thorlac Turville-Petre / John A. Burrow & Hoyt N. Duggan editors.

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Medieval alliterative poetry : essays in honour of Thorlac Turville-Petre / John A. Burrow & Hoyt N. Duggan editors.
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Dublin : Four Courts Press, 2010.

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Additional Authors
  • Burrow, J. A. (John Anthony)
  • Duggan, Hoyt N.
  • Turville-Petre, Thorlac.
Description
229 p. : 1 port.; 24 cm.
Summary
This collection of essays celebrates Professor Thorlac Turville-Petre for his scholarly work in late medieval English literature, in particular for his contributions to editorial scholarship and Middle English alliterative poetry.
Subject
  • Turville-Petre, Thorlac
  • Alliteration
  • English poetry > Middle English, 1110-1500 > History and criticism
  • English poetry > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Thorlac Turville-Petre's publications -- The view from Nottingham / Nicola Royan & Judith Jesch -- 1. Langland and the Devotio Moderna: a spiritual kinship / Robert Adams -- 2. The new lives of Piers Plowman / John A. Burrow -- 3. Alliterative wombs / Michael Calabrese -- 4. The end of the line / Hoyt N. Duggan -- 5. The Blage manuscript and alliterative verse in the sixteenth century / A.S.G. Edwards -- 6. Alliterative poetry in old Jerusalem: the Siege of Jerusalem and its sources / Andrew Galloway -- 7. Humphrey and the werewolf / Richard F. Green -- 8. The Tree of Charity {u2013} again / Ralph Hanna -- 9. Divisions, collaboration and other topics: the table of contents in Cambridge, University Library, MS Gg.4.31 / Judith A. Jefferson -- 10. The poetic character of the C-text of Piers Plowman / Derek Pearsall -- 11. Cleanness and the tradition of biblical versification / Ad Putter -- 12. The alliterative Awntyrs stanza in Older Scots verse / Nicola Royan -- 13. On the road: Langland and some medieval outlaw stories / John Scattergood -- 14. The sacramental significance of blood in Piers Plowman / A.V.C. Schmidt.
ISBN
  • 9781846821806 (hbk.)
  • 1846821800 (hbk.)
OCLC
  • 573322673
  • SCSB-10669043
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Harvard Library