'Truthe is the beste'

Nicolas Jacobs was until his retirement a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford. His publications include (with A.V.C. Schmidt) Medieval English Romances, in the London Medieval and Renaissance Series (2 volumes, 1980), The Later Versions of «Sir Degarré»: A Study in Textual Degeneration (1995) and the edited volume Early Welsh Gnomic and Nature Poetry (2013). Gerald Morgan was formerly a Senior Lecturer and Fellow of Trinity College Dublin. His publications include The Tragic Argument of «Troilus and Criseyde» (2 volumes, 2005), The Shaping of English Poetry (3 volumes to date, 2010 and 2013) and the edited volume Chaucer in Context: A Golden Age of English Poetry (2012).

• Contents: J. A. Burrow: Punctuation in the B Version of Piers Plowman – Mary Carruthers: Terror, Horror and the Fear of God, or, Why There Is No Medieval Sublime – Helen Cooper: Kynde Names: Acts of Naming in Piers Plowman – Mary Clemente Davlin: The Style of Prayer in Piers Plowman – P. J. C. Field: Malory’s Fyleloly: The Origin and Meaning of a Name – Alan J. Fletcher: Review of A Dictionary of Hiberno-English: The Irish Use of English (third edition) – Vincent Gillespie: Dame Study’s Anatomical Curse: A Scatological Parody? – Nicolas Jacobs: Nebuchadnezzar and the Moral of the Nun’s Priest’s Tale – Rory McTurk: Aicill in Piers Plowman? – Gerald Morgan: Chaucer’s Tellers and Tales and the Design of the Canterbury Tales – Thorlac Turville-Petre: Proverbs in Middle English Alliterative Poetry – Barry Windeatt: Julian of Norwich and Medieval English Visual Culture.

«[…] 'Truthe is the beste': A Festschrift in Honour of A. V. C. Schmidt has much to offer its readers, who will find its contents stimulating and masterful.»(M. Teresa Tavormina, The Yearbook of Langland Studies 29/2015)