Baker Peter S., Howe Nicholas (eds.) Words and Works: Studies in Medieval English Language and Literature in Honour of Fred C. Robinson

University of Toronto Press, 1998. — 322 p. — (Toronto Old English Series, 10). — ISBN 0802041531, 9780802041531.With contributions by some of the leading scholars in the field, "Words and Works: Studies in Medieval English Language and Literature in Honour of Fred C. Robinson" is a distinguished collection of essays on Old and Middle English literature and textual analysis. Focusing on issues ranging from philology to literary criticism, the essays represent a variety of perspectives in Old and Middle English scholarship. "Words and Works: Studies in Medieval English Language and Literature in Honour of Fred C. Robinson" is a worthy tribute to one of the outstanding figures in Old English scholarship in the last quarter of this century.Abbreviations
Who Read the Gospels in Old English? Roy Michael Liuzza, Tulane University
Byrhtferth at Work. Michael Lapidge, Cambridge University
An "Anser" for Exeter Book Riddle. Daniel Donoghue, Harvard University
An Ogre's Arm: Japanese Analogues of "Beowulf". Michiko Ogura, Chiba University
Courtliness and Courtesy in "Beowulf" and Elsewhere in English Medieval Literature. Eric Gerald Stanley, Oxford University
Aedelflaed of Mercia: "Mise en page". Paul E. Szarmach, Western Michigan University
Old English Texts and Modern Readers: Notes on Editing and Textual Criticism. Helmut Gneuss, University of Munich
The "Dream of the Rood" Repunctuated. Bruce Mitchell, Oxford University
"Maþelian" in Old English Poetry. Matti Rissanen, University of Helsinki
Apposition and the Subjects of Verb-Initial Clauses. Mary E. Blockley, University of Texas at Austin
The Inflection of Latin Nouns in Old English Texts. Peter S. Baker, University of Virginia
When Lexicography Met the Exeter Book. Roberta Frank, University of Toronto
Chaucer's English Rhymes: The "Roman", the "Romaunt", and "The Book of the Duchess". Marie Borroff, Yale University
Seeking 'Goddes Pryvetee': Sodomy, Quitting, and Desire in "The Miller's Tale". David Lorenzo Boyd, New York City
Why the Monk? Siegfried Wenzel, University of Pennsylvania
The Real Fulk Fitzwarine's Mythical Monster Fights. Marijane Osborn, University of California at Davis
Praise and Lament: The Afterlife of Old English Poetry in Auden, Hill, and Gunn. Nicholas Howe, Ohio State University