Books in the Festschriften, Occasional Papers, and Lectures series

This volume of essays focuses on the tale and its ability to create "mirth," what modern audiences would often define as "happiness" or "joy," and the significance of the transference of this mirth to audiences.

New approaches on early English poetic culture from the perspective of meter and poetic style.

A collection of wise and witty essays by some of our wisest and wittiest scholars in honor of one of our field's wisest wits.

Compiled to mark the five-hundredth anniversary of publication of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur by William Caxton, this volume contains critical studies of Malory's work, supplemented by essays that place that work in the larger context of Caxton's canon.

Compiled to mark the five-hundredth anniversary of publication of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur by William Caxton, this volume contains critical studies of Malory's work, supplemented by essays that place that work in the larger context of Caxton's canon.

The second of two volumes dedicated to the memory of Paul Remy and having as theme the scientific domain to which he had dedicated his research for nearly forty years: the Occitan literature and language.

The first of two volumes dedicated to the memory of Paul Remy and having as theme the scientific domain to which he had dedicated his research for nearly forty years: the Occitan literature and language.

The twelve essays in this volume proceed from a modern fantasy-epic back in time to oral epics that have been transmitted through the technology of manuscripts, and central in the collection are two articles that address Chaucer's Middle English courtly epic, Troilus and Criseyde.

The idea for the Bloomfield Lectures was...[to] reflect to some extent Morton Bloomfield's wide and varied interests-in literature, in the history of philosophy, in language studies, in Judaic studies.

Performative dance and dance history, social history and musicological issues are all explored, touching on topics from the later Renaissance back through the Carolingian Empire.

Features a section of appreciations of Bryce Lyon from the three editors, R. C. Van Caenegem, and Walter Prevenier, followed by three sections on the major areas on which Lyon's research concentrated: the legacy of Henri Pirenne, constitutional and legal history of England and the Continent, and the economic history of the Low Countries.

Essay honoring Bonnie Wheeler for her many scholarly achievements and her wide-ranging contributions to medieval studies in the United States. There are sections on Old and MEL, Arthuriana Then and Now, Joan of Arc Then and Now, Nuns and Spirituality, and Royal Women.