Medieval English and Dutch Literatures: the European Context

Larissa Tracy is Professor of Medieval Literature at Longwood University. She has published extensively on medieval violence and its intersections with literature, law, medicine, and social identity. Geert H. M. Claassens is Professor of Middle Dutch Literature at KU Leuven. He has published widely on Middle Dutch Arthurian Romances and Charlemagne epics, Middle Dutch Bible translations and hagiography. CATHERINE E. KARKOV is Professor Emeritus of Art History, University of Leeds. K.S. WHETTER is Professor of English at Acadia University. Larissa Tracy is Professor of Medieval Literature at Longwood University. She has published extensively on medieval violence and its intersections with literature, law, medicine, and social identity. Geert H. M. Claassens is Professor of Middle Dutch Literature at KU Leuven. He has published widely on Middle Dutch Arthurian Romances and Charlemagne epics, Middle Dutch Bible translations and hagiography. ELIZABETH ARCHIBALD is Professor of English Studies at Durham University, and Principal of St Cuthbert's Society.

• List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsPrefaceAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Medieval English and Dutch Literature in its European Context and the Work of David F. JohnsonLarissa Tracy and Geert H. M. Claassens1. Reconstructing a Lost Manuscript of the Old English GospelsRoy M. Liuzza 2. The Reception of the Old English Version of Gregory the Great's Dialogues between the Conquest and the Close of the Nineteenth CenturyRolf H. Bremmer Jr3. An Unrecorded Copy of Heinrich Krebs's An Anglo-Saxon Version of Gregory's Dialogues, Printer's ProofsThomas A. Bredehoft and Rachel C. S. Duke4. The Body as Media in Early Medieval EnglandMartin Foys5. Who Snatched Grendel in Beowulf 852b?Stephen Harris6. 'Mobile as Wishes': Anchoritism, Intersubjectivity, and Disability in the Liber confortatoriusDanielle Allor and Stacy S. Klein7. The Presence of the Hands: Sculpture and Script in the Eighth to Twelfth Centuries Catherine Karkov and Elaine Treharne 8. Perceval's Name and the Gifts of the MotherThomas D. Hill9. A Relaxed Knight and an Impatient Heroine: Ironizing the Love Quest in the Second Part of the Middle Dutch FerguutMarjolein Hogenbirk10. Multilingualism in Van den vos Reynaerde and its Reception in Reynardus VulpesBart Besamusca11. Three Characters as Narrator in the Roman van WaleweinRoel Zemel 12. As the Chess-Set Flies: Arthurian Marvels in Chaucer's Squire's Tale and the Roman van WaleweinJamie C. Fumo13. For a Performer's Personal Use: The Corrector's Lines in the Lower Margin of the Middle Dutch Lanceloet ManuscriptFrank Brandsma14. 'Oft leudlez alone': The Isolation of the Hero and Its Consequences in Sir Gawain and the Green KnightK. S. Whetter15. Shifting Skin: Passing as Human, Passing as Fay in Sir Gawain and the Green KnightLarissa Tracy16. The Lover Caught Between his Mother and his Maiden in Lanseloet van DenemerkenGeert H. M. Claassens17. Afterlives: The Abbey at Amesbury and the 'Rehabilitation' of Guinevere in Malory and the Stanzaic Morte ArthurChristopher Jensen18. The Importance of Being an Arthurian MotherElizabeth ArchibaldSelect BibliographyBibliography of David F. Johnson's WorksIndexTabula Gratulatoria