Medieval alliterative poetry

Essays in honour of Thorlac Turville-Petre


John A. Burrow & Hoyt N. Duggan, editors

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ISBN: 978-1-84682-180-6
April 2010. 230pp.

Langland and the Devotio Moderna: a spiritual kinship
Robert Adams

The new lives of Piers Plowman
John A. Burrow

Alliterative wombs
Michael Calabrese

The end of the line
Hoyt N. Duggan

The Blage manuscript and alliterative verse in the sixteenth century
A.S.G. Edwards

Alliterative poetry in old Jerusalem: the Siege of Jerusalem and its sources
Andrew Galloway

Humphrey and the werewolf
Richard F. Green

The Tree of Charity – again
Ralph Hanna

Divisions, collaboration and other topics: the table of contents in Cambridge, University Library, MS Gg.4.31
Judith A. Jefferson

The poetic character of the C-text of Piers Plowman
Derek Pearsall

Cleanness and the tradition of biblical versification
Ad Putter

The alliterative Awntyrs stanza in Older Scots verse
Nicola Royan

On the road: Langland and some medieval outlaw stories
John Scattergood

The sacramental significance of blood in Piers Plowman
A.V.C. Schmidt