List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Medieval English and Dutch Literature in its European Context and the Work of David F. Johnson
Larissa Tracy and Geert H. M. Claassens
1. Reconstructing a Lost Manuscript of the Old English Gospels
Roy 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 Century
Rolf H. Bremmer Jr
3. An Unrecorded Copy of Heinrich Krebs's An Anglo-Saxon Version of Gregory's Dialogues, Printer's Proofs
Thomas A. Bredehoft and Rachel C. S. Duke
4. The Body as Media in Early Medieval England
Martin Foys
5. Who Snatched Grendel in Beowulf 852b?
Stephen Harris
6. 'Mobile as Wishes': Anchoritism, Intersubjectivity, and Disability in the Liber confortatorius
Danielle Allor and Stacy S. Klein
7. 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 Mother
Thomas D. Hill
9. A Relaxed Knight and an Impatient Heroine: Ironizing the Love Quest in the Second Part of the Middle Dutch Ferguut
Marjolein Hogenbirk
10. Multilingualism in Van den vos Reynaerde and its Reception in Reynardus Vulpes
Bart Besamusca
11. Three Characters as Narrator in the Roman van Walewein
Roel Zemel
12. As the Chess-Set Flies: Arthurian Marvels in Chaucer's Squire's Tale and the Roman van Walewein
Jamie C. Fumo
13. For a Performer's Personal Use: The Corrector's Lines in the Lower Margin of the Middle Dutch Lanceloet Manuscript
Frank Brandsma
14. 'Oft leudlez alone': The Isolation of the Hero and Its Consequences in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
K. S. Whetter
15. Shifting Skin: Passing as Human, Passing as Fay in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Larissa Tracy
16. The Lover Caught Between his Mother and his Maiden in Lanseloet van Denemerken
Geert H. M. Claassens
17. Afterlives: The Abbey at Amesbury and the 'Rehabilitation' of Guinevere in Malory and the Stanzaic Morte Arthur
Christopher Jensen
18. The Importance of Being an Arthurian Mother
Elizabeth Archibald
Select Bibliography
Bibliography of David F. Johnson's Works
Index
Tabula Gratulatoria