The Centre and Its Compass

Studies in Medieval Literature in Honor of Professor John Leyerle

Edited by Robert A. Taylor Edited by James F. Burke Edited by Patricia J. Eberle Edited by Ian Lancashire Edited by Brian S. Merrilees

Book cover: The Centre and Its Compass

Extent: 486 pages

Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

Subjects: Literary Studies, Medieval Studies

Series: Studies in Medieval Culture

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(October 1993)

ISBN: 9781879288300

6.14 x 9.21 inches

Price: $34.95

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Hardback (Published)

(October 1993)

ISBN: 9781879288294

Price: $34.95

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Collection of essays in honor of John Leyerle. As a teacher, scholar, and administrator, Leyerle has been a leader in the rise and renewal of medieval studies on this continent in the past thirty years. Essays reflect his broad academic interests and interdisciplinary approach to scholarship, international contributors.


This collection of essays was released in honor of John Leyerle, a scholar to whom all medievalists in North America, and many beyond, owe a great debt. As a teacher, scholar, and administrator, Leyerle has been a leader in the rise and renewal of medieval studies on this continent in the past thirty years. The essays in this volume encompass his broad academic interests and interdisciplinary approach to scholarship, with a range of contributors from Canada, the United States, and abroad.

Tonic Accent, Codicology, and Literacy by Leonard E. Boyle O.P. The Ritual Frame of Peribanez by James F. Burke Chaucer's Boethius and Thomas Usk's Testament of Love: Politics and Love in the Chaucerian Tradition by David R. Carlson The Antwerp Landjuweel of 1561: A Survey of the Texts by John Cartwright From Text to Text and From Tale to Tale: Jean Froissart's Prison amoureuse by Laurence de Looze The Question of Authority and The Man of Law's Tale by Patricia J. Eberle The Scribe and the Late-Medieval Liturgical Manuscript: Page Layout and Order of Work by Andrew Hughes The Word Made Flesh: Augustinian Elements in the York Cycle by Alexandra F. Johnston The Topos of the Beasts of Battle in Early Welsh Poetry by David N. Klausner Chaucer's Wheel of False Religion: Theology and Obscenity in The Summoner's Tale by V.A. Kolve Medieval to Renaissance: Plays and the London Drapers' Company to 1558 by Anne Lancashire Chaucer's Repetends from The General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales by Ian Lancashire How to See Through Women: Medieval Blazons and the Male Gaze by James Miller The Legend of Hugh Capet: The English Tradition by A.G. Rigg Another Eighteenth-Century Transcription of Maldon? by Fred C. Robinson Chretien de Troyes and His Narrators by David Staines Barbarolexis Revisited: The Poetic Use of Hybrid Language in Old Occitan/Old French Lyric by Robert A. Taylor, Preface
Tonic Accent, Codicology, and Literacy by Leonard E. Boyle O.P.
The Ritual Frame of Peribañez by James F. Burke
Chaucer's Boethius and Thomas Usk's Testament of Love: Politics and Love in the Chaucerian Tradition by David R. Carlson
The Antwerp Landjuweel of 1561: A Survey of the Texts by John Cartwright
From Text to Text and From Tale to Tale: Jean Froissart's Prison amoureuse by Laurence de Looze
The Question of Authority and The Man of Law's Tale by Patricia J. Eberle
The Scribe and the Late-Medieval Liturgical Manuscript: Page Layout and Order of Work by Andrew Hughes
The Word Made Flesh: Augustinian Elements in the York Cycle by Alexandra F. Johnston
The Topos of the Beasts of Battle in Early Welsh Poetry by David N. Klausner
Chaucer's Wheel of False Religion: Theology and Obscenity in The Summoner's Tale by V.A. Kolve
Medieval to Renaissance: Plays and the London Drapers' Company to 1558 by Anne Lancashire
Chaucer's Repetends from The General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales by Ian Lancashire
How to See Through Women: Medieval Blazons and the Male Gaze by James Miller
The Legend of Hugh Capet: The English Tradition by A.G. Rigg
Another Eighteenth-Century Transcription of Maldon? by Fred C. Robinson
Chretien de Troyes and His Narrators by David Staines
Barbarolexis Revisited: The Poetic Use of Hybrid Language in Old Occitan/Old French Lyric by Robert A. Taylor

  • Edited by Robert A. Taylor
  • Edited by James F. Burke
  • Edited by Patricia J. Eberle
  • Edited by Ian Lancashire
  • Edited by Brian S. Merrilees