Clerks, Wives and Historians

The Editors: Winfried Rudolf is lecturer at the Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena. Thomas Honegger is Professor for Medieval English Language and Literature at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena. Andrew James Johnston is Professor for Medieval and Renaissance English Literature at the Freie Universität Berlin.

• Contents: Roland Schuhmann: The King’s Speech in the Finnsburg Fragment – Sebastian I. Sobecki: That Dizzy Height of Wisdom: Augustinian Vision and Kynde’s Mountain in Piers Plowman B XI – Franziska Scheitzeneder: «For myn entente nys but for to pleye». On the Playground with the Wife of Bath, the Clerk of Oxford and Jacques Derrida – Nicole Nyffenegger-Staub: Subjectivity and Crisis in Fourteenth-Century English Historical Writing – Kathrin Prietzel: Treachery and Betrayal in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: The Incident of 1051 – Thomas Honegger: Romancing the Form: Alliterative Metre and William of Palerne – Winfried Rudolf: Seven Diverse Loans in Middle English Alliterative Poetry - A Preliminary Study – Maik Goth: «Infinite Shapes of Thinges»: Monsters and the Monstrous in Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene – Robert Mailhammer: The Typological Significance of Ablaut in the Prehistory of English – Svenja Kranich: Some Problems Connected with the Analysis of Gerunds with Direct Objects in Middle English.