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