The Centre and Its Compass: Studies in Medieval Literature in Honor of Professor John Leyerle(33 Studies in Medieval Culture)

This collection of essays was released in honor of John Leyerle, a scholar to whom all medievalists in North America, and many beyond, owe a great debt. As a teacher, scholar, and administrator, Leyerle has been a leader in the rise and renewal of medieval studies on this continent in the past thirty years. The essays in this volume encompass his broad academic interests and interdisciplinary approach to scholarship, with a range of contributors from Canada, the United States, and abroad.

Table of Contents:
Preface
Tonic Accent, Codicology, and Literacy by Leonard E. Boyle O.P.
The Ritual Frame of Peribañez by James F. Burke
Chaucer's Boethius and Thomas Usk's Testament of Love: Politics and Love in the Chaucerian Tradition by David R. Carlson
The Antwerp Landjuweel of 1561: A Survey of the Texts by John Cartwright
From Text to Text and From Tale to Tale: Jean Froissart's Prison amoureuse by Laurence de Looze
The Question of Authority and The Man of Law's Tale by Patricia J. Eberle
The Scribe and the Late-Medieval Liturgical Manuscript: Page Layout and Order of Work by Andrew Hughes
The Word Made Flesh: Augustinian Elements in the York Cycle by Alexandra F. Johnston
The Topos of the Beasts of Battle in Early Welsh Poetry by David N. Klausner
Chaucer's Wheel of False Religion: Theology and Obscenity in The Summoner's Tale by V.A. Kolve
Medieval to Renaissance: Plays and the London Drapers' Company to 1558 by Anne Lancashire
Chaucer's Repetends from The General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales by Ian Lancashire
How to See Through Women: Medieval Blazons and the Male Gaze by James Miller
The Legend of Hugh Capet: The English Tradition by A.G. Rigg
Another Eighteenth-Century Transcription of Maldon? by Fred C. Robinson
Chretien de Troyes and His Narrators by David Staines
Barbarolexis Revisited: The Poetic Use of Hybrid Language in Old Occitan/Old French Lyric by Robert A. Taylor

About the Author :
Robert A. Taylor is professor emeritus of French at the University of Toronto and has published on French and Occitan literature, editing medieval texts, and medieval lexicography. James F. Burke is professor emeritus of Spanish at the University of Toronto and specializes in Castilian literature. Patricia J. Ebelerle is a research associate at the University of Toronto. Ian Lancashire is a professor of English at the University of Toronto, whose research and publications have focused on Early Modern English lexicons, Renaissance dictionaries, and the ties between text and dementia. Brian S. Merrilees was professor emeritus in the Department of French at the University of Toronto, and Fellow at Victoria College.