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This volume celebrates the career of Keith Busby, one of the most prominent researchers of medieval French literature of our time, or as one of the contributors states, “one of the true knights errant among us—a scholar defined by the nobility of his intellect who upholds and defends medieval studies.” The chapters presented here bring together leading scholars from the United States, England, The Netherlands, France, Canada, Germany, and Australia. The authors focus on subjects related to Professor Busby’s broad research interests. Topics include, but are not limited to, Arthurian literature, courtly literature, fabliaux, epic, romance, Chrétien de Troyes, Marie de France, Breton lays, manuscript studies, iconography, and Occitan literature. This collection also offers critical editions of two texts: the Dit des Boulangers and an Anglo-Norman Quadripertitus Hermetis . These chapters will be of particular interest to specialists and students of medieval literature and manuscript studies.

French literature --- Literature, Medieval --- History and criticism --- Criticism, Textual --- Busby, Keith --- History and criticism. --- Criticism, Textual. --- Busby, Keith. --- Old French literature --- Criticism. --- Literature. --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Criticism --- Evaluation of literature --- Literary criticism --- Literature --- Rhetoric --- Aesthetics --- Technique --- Evaluation --- French literature - To 1500 - History and criticism --- Literature, Medieval - Criticism, Textual

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This extensive survey of scribal correction in English manuscripts explores what correcting reveals about attitudes to books, language and literature in late medieval England. Daniel Wakelin surveys a range of manuscripts and genres, but focuses especially on poems by Chaucer, Hoccleve and Lydgate, and on prose works such as chronicles, religious instruction and practical lore. His materials are the variants and corrections found in manuscripts, phenomena usually studied only by editors or palaeographers, but his method is the close reading and interpretation typical of literary criticism. From the corrections emerge often overlooked aspects of English literary thinking in the late Middle Ages: scribes, readers and authors seek, though often fail to achieve, invariant copying, orderly spelling, precise diction, regular verse and textual completeness. Correcting reveals their impressive attention to scribal and literary craft - its rigour, subtlety, formalism and imaginativeness - in an age with little other literary criticism in English.

English literature --- Manuscripts, Medieval --- Transmission of texts. --- Literature, Medieval --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Criticism, Textual. --- England --- Intellectual life --- Literary transmission --- Manuscript transmission --- Textual transmission --- Medieval manuscripts --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. --- Transmission of texts --- Criticism, Textual --- Editions --- Manuscripts --- History and criticism --- History --- E-books --- Littérature anglaise --- Manuscrits médiévaux --- Transmission de textes --- Littérature médiévale --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire --- Critique textuelle --- Angleterre --- Vie intellectuelle --- English literature - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism --- Manuscripts, Medieval - England - History --- Literature, Medieval - Criticism, Textual --- England - Intellectual life - 1066-1485 --- Literatura medieval --- Manuscritos medievales --- Transmisión de textos --- Literatura inglesa --- Historia y crítica --- Inglaterra --- Cultura

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With this volume, Jane Chance concludes her monumental study of the history of mythography in medieval literature. Her focus here is the advent of hybrid mythography, the transformation of mythological commentary by blending the scholarly with the courtly and the personal. Chance's in-depth examination of works by the major writers of the period demonstrates how they essentially co-opted a thousand-year tradition. Their intricate narratives of identity mixed commentary with poetry, reinterpreted classical gods and heroes to suit personal agendas, and gave rise to innovative techniques such as "inglossation"--the use of a mythological figure to comment on the protagonist within an autobiographical allegory. In this manner, through allegorical authorial projection of the self, the poets explored a subjective world and manifested a burgeoning humanism that would eventually come to full fruition in the Renaissance. No other work examines the mythographic interrelationships among these poets and their unique and personal approaches to mythological commentary.

Civilization, Medieval --- Criticism, Medieval --- Latin literature, Medieval and modern --- Literature, Medieval --- Mythology --- Mythology, Classical, in literature. --- Classical influences. --- History. --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- Roman influences. --- Historiography. --- Ecole de Chartres. --- -Mythology, Classical, in literature --- -Mythology --- -Latin literature, Medieval and modern --- -Myths --- Myth --- Medieval criticism --- Roman influences --- Ecole de Chartres --- Cathédrale de Chartres. --- School of Chartres --- Scuola di Chartres --- Cathedral School of Chartres --- Littérature latine médiévale et moderne --- Mythologie ancienne dans la littérature --- Critique médiévale --- Théorie, etc. --- Influence ancienne --- Influence romaine --- 82 "04/14" --- -Literature, Medieval --- Legends --- Religion --- Religions --- Folklore --- Gods --- European literature --- Medieval literature --- Medieval civilization --- Middle Ages --- Civilization --- Chivalry --- Renaissance --- 82 "04/14" Literatuur. Algemene literatuurwetenschap--Middeleeuwen --- Literatuur. Algemene literatuurwetenschap--Middeleeuwen --- Classical influences --- History --- Historiography --- Comparative religion --- Comparative literature --- Medieval Latin literature --- anno 500-1499 --- Civilisation médiévale --- Littérature médiévale --- Mythologie --- Histoire et critique --- Historiographie --- Humanism --- Civilization, Classical --- Myths --- History and criticism. --- Latin literature --- Roman literature --- Classical literature --- Classical philology --- Latin philology --- Criticism and interpretation --- -Civilization, Medieval --- Latin literature, Medieval and modern - History and criticism - Theory, etc. --- Civilization, Medieval - Classical influences. --- Literature, Medieval - Roman influences. --- Criticism, Medieval - History. --- Mythology - Historiography. --- -82 "04/14" Literatuur. Algemene literatuurwetenschap--Middeleeuwen --- Moyen Age --- -Classical influences --- MEDIEVAL CIVILIZATION --- CLASSICAL INFLUENCE --- MEDIEVAL LITERATURE --- ROMAN INFLUENCES --- CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY --- HISTORIOGRAPHY --- CLASSICAL INFLUENCES