New Volume! Court and Cloister: Studies in the Short Narrative in Honor of Glyn S. Burgess

We are pleased to inform our members that Court and Cloister: Studies in the Short Narrative in Honor of Glyn S. Burgess (ISBN 978-0-86698-573-4) is now available from The Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

Copies may be purchased directly from the publisher here.

Edited by Jean Blacker and Jane H. M. Taylor, this collection honors former ICLS International President, Glyn S. Burgess, and contains contributions from many current ICLS members. As expected from the title, the essays touch upon courtly themes.

From the publisher’s website:

Contents

Brevity as Emphasis in the Narrative Lay: The Long and the Short of It
—Douglas Kelly, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Looking in the Mirror and Twinning Tales in Milun and Doon
—Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner, Boston College

Marie de France, Translator of Lais
—Rupert T. Pickens, University of Kentucky

Heritage in the Lais of Marie de France
—Logan E. Whalen, University of Oklahoma

Marie de France’s Chaitivel: A Lesson in rapidità
—Eliza Hoyer-Millar, Oxford University

Marie de France’s Lais in BnF MS. nouv. acq. fr. 1104 (MS. S)
—Leslie C. Brook, University of Birmingham

Où ranger les récits brefs? Petite enquête sur le contexte manuscrit des fabliaux et des lais
—Richard Trachsler, University of Zurich

Textual Clusters in Manuscript Transmission and Reception: The Lai de l’ombre and its Co-Texts
—Karen Pratt, King’s College London

The Teller and the Tale: Meta- and Micro-narratives in the Chanson de Toile
—Karen J. Taylor, Morehead State University

La Voie de Povreté et de Richesse, A Fourteenth-Century Moral Allegory
—Glynnis M. Cropp, Massey University

The Fire Rekindled: Brendan in the Baltics
—Clara Strijbosch, Utrecht University

The Journey of St. Brendan: The Navigatio through Six Centuries of Augmentation and Reduction
—Margaret Burrell, University of Canterbury

Where the Snakes Went: What Happened to St. Patrick’s Serpents?
—Keith Busby, University of Wisconsin-Madison

L’histoire d’Hasting: un récit bref dans le long temps des chroniques normandes
—Laurence Mathey-Maille, University of Le Havre

Authorial Voice in Wace’s Assomption and Anonymous Versions
—Jean Blacker, Kenyon College

Envoi: Multum in parvo
—Peter F. Ainsworth, University of Sheffield

With additional contributions by:
Jacqueline Eccles, University of Dundee
Jane H. M. Taylor, Durham University