Relationships between people and texts form the focus of the studies collected in this book. It was presented to Erik Kooper in recognition of his lifelong efforts to bring together people from universities worldwide. It will be of special interest to scholars and students of Arthurian and Middle English literature, codicologists, scholars interested in medieval Latin sermons and the Gesta Herewardi, in medieval drama and in texts in Middle English, among them Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Wynnere and Wastoure, Sir Eglamour, the Tale of Gamelyn, and, in Scots, the metrical chronicle of William Stewart. Articles on early twentieth-century Chaucerian scholarship and on many of the Old French Arthurian romances as well as the writings of Wace and Benoît de Sainte-Maure are also included.
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Illustrations
Preface
Bart BESAMUSCA: The Human Condition, Friendship and Love: The Epic of
Gilgamesh and Medieval
Arthurian Romance
Frank BRANDSMA: Kin: Hector and Lancelot in Part 3 of the Prose Lancelot
Rolf H. BREMMER, Jr.: The Gesta Herewardi. Transforming an Anglo-Saxon into
an Englishman
Keith BUSBY: Erec, le Fiz Lac (British Library, Harley 4971)
D.J. CURNOW and Ad PUTTER: Textual and Familial Relationships. The Place of
the Michigan Fragment in the Evolution of Sir Eglamour
Frans N.M. DIEKSTRA: Robert de Sorbon on Men, Women and Marriage. The
Testimony of his De Matrimonio and Other Works
Juliette DOR: Caroline Spurgeon and her Relationship to Chaucer. The Text of
her Viva Presentation at the Sorbonne
Karen HODDER and John SCATTERGOOD: Wynnere and Wastoure 407-414 and Le Roman
de la Rose 8813-8854
Geert van IERSEL: The Twenty-Five Ploughs of Sir John: The Tale of Gamelyn
and the Implications of Acreage
Douglas KELLY: The Trojans in the Writings of Wace and Benoît de Sainte
Maure
Edward Donald KENNEDY: Gawains Family and Friends. Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight and Its Allusions to French Prose Romances
Jane ROBERTS: A Lancashire Lease
Elsa STRIETMAN: All human life is here: Relationships in Het Spel van Sinnen
van Lazarus Doot
Thea SUMMERFIELD: Teaching a Young King about History. William Stewarts
Metrical Chronicle
and King James V of Scotland
Select Bibliography of the Writings of Erik Kooper
Contributors are Bart Besamusca, Frank Brandsma, Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr., Keith Busby, D.J. Curnow and Ad Putter, Juliette Dor, Frans N.M. Diekstra, Karen Hodder and John Scattergood, Geert van Iersel, Douglas Kelly, Edward Donald Kennedy, Jane Roberts, Elsa Strietman and Thea Summerfield.
