In Strange Countries: Middle English Literature and its Afterlife

David Matthews is Lecturer in Medieval Literature and Culture at the University of Manchester

• PrefaceIntroductionDavid Matthews and Anke Bernau1. Robin Hood versus King Arthur: Stephen Knight 2. The Green Knight’s balancing act: Gillian Rudd3. Recasting a role: Brutus in La?amon’s Brut: Carole Weinberg4. ‘Broad spears broke, shields clashed, men fell’: How La?amon and Tennyson deal with the problem of combat: Rosamund Allen5. ‘For ho is quene of cortaysye’: The assumption of the virgin in Pearl and the Festial: Susan Powell6. Making yourself ‘þer present’: Nicholas Love and the plays of the passion: Alexandra F. Johnston7. Reading a procession: Bishop Blase at Bradford: Peter Meredith8. ‘Trewe techyng and false heritikys’: Some ‘Lollard’ manuscripts of the Pore Caitif: Kalpen Trivedi9. A life’s work: John Anderson and the Gawain-poet: Ralph Elliott10. John Julian Anderson: a memoir: Alan Shelston

A collection of fine scholarly essays and also an intensely personal tribute to a much-admired scholar ... This excellent collection of essays both celebrates and demonstrates the network of scholarship that has given us a continually renewed understanding of medieval texts and their afterlife.'Graham Tulloch, Parergon - Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, volume 29.2 (2012).Readers of In Strange Countries will value it differently depending on their points of investedcontact with individual chapters. The best of these reach an unimpeachable standardof scholarship and will influence specialist conversation in their fields.