ACTA Volume #4

Paul E. Szarmach is Director of the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. He is the editor of Aspects of Medieval Culture in the Middle Ages; Introduction to the Medieval Mystics of Europe; Studies in Earlier Old English Prose, and co-author (with Bernard F. Huppe) of Old English Homily and Its Background, all published by SUNY Press. He is also the editor of the SUNY series in Medieval Studies.

• Introduction1. Outstanding Problems of Middle EnglishGeorge Kane2. Aspects of Clerical Education in Fourteenth-Century EnglandLeonard E. Boyle3. Meister Eckhart’s Ironic OrthodoxyClyde Lee Miller4. Internationalism of the Prague Artistic CenterMojmir S. Frinta5. Polyphemus in IcelandDonald K. Fry6. Prototype and Parody in Chaucerian ExegesisRuth Ames7. Chaucer’s Numismatic Pardoner and the Personification of AvariceWalter Scheps8. Tree Paradigms in the Merchant’s TaleAnthony Annunzia