From «Beowulf» to Caxton

Tomonori Matsushita is Professor of Medieval English literature and linguistics, Senshu University, Tokyo.A.V.C. Schmidt is Andrew Bradley-James Maxwell Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford.David Wallace is Judith Rodin Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania.

• Contents: Tomonori Matsushita: Introduction – Graham D. Caie: A Case of Double Vision: Denmark in Beowulf and Beowulf in England – Kazutomo Karasawa: Hrothgar in the Germanic Context of Beowulf – A.V.C. Schmidt: The Four Elements as a Structural Idea in Piers Plowman – Helen Barr: The Place of the Poor in ‘the Piers Plowman Tradition’ – Masatoshi Kawasaki: ‘My Wyl Is This’ (Canterbury Tales. I [A] 1845): Chaucer’s Sense of Power in The Knight’s Tale and The Clerk’s Tale – Yoshiyuki Nakao: Textual Variations in Troilus and Criseyde and the Rise of Ambiguity – Yoshiyuki Nakao/Masatsugu Matsuo: A Comprehensive Textual Comparison of Troilus and Criseyde: Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, MS 61 and B.A. Windeatt’s Edition of Troilus and Criseyde (1990) – Mitsu Ide: The Old English Equivalents for Factum Esse and the Salisbury Psalter – Akiyuki Jimura: On the Decline of the Prefix y- of Past Participles – Hiroshi Yonekura: Compound Nouns in Late Middle English: Their Morphological, Syntactic and Semantic Description – Masa Ikegami: Robert Henryson’s Rhymes between ‘Etymological -ē and -ī’ and the Special Development of Unstressed /i/ – Akinobu Tani: Word Pairs or Doublets in Caxton’s History of Reynard the Fox: Rampant and Tedious? – Sylvia Huot: Senshu University Manuscripts 2 and 3 and the Roman de la Rose Manuscript Tradition – Patrick P. O’Neill: The Senshu Psalter.