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Medium Aevum
Bi-yearly journal contains articles, notes and review articles on a range of medieval linguistic and literary topics.
Articles from Vol. 70, No. 1, Spring
A New Middle English Carol
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Since the publication of Greene's revised standard edition of the Middle English carol corpus(1) a handful of new ones have come to light.(2) There is, however, among the medieval materials in the collection of Professor T. Takamiya in Tokyo, another...
Joseph of Exeter's Pagan Gods Again
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Some years ago in this journal, Hugh C. Parker described how the pagan gods function in Joseph of Exeter's Ylias.(1) Thetis, when drowning Orontes (V. 167-70) or searching for Achilles (v.381-4), is simply the sea. Aurora, when mourning Memnon (VI.370-4),...
`Nus Ne Poroit De Mauvaise Raison' (R1887): A Case for Raoul De Soissons
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The crusade song(1) `Nus ne poroit de mauvaise raison' appears in only two manuscripts, neither of which supplies the author's name. A third source takes the form of an incunabulum published in 1500 by Pierre Desrey de Troyes, who attributes the song...
South English Legendary Style in Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle
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Two huge momuments of later thirteenth-century literary activity, the South English Legendary (SEL), which contains principally saints' lives, and the historical chronicle that goes under the name of Robert of Gloucester, have long been known to be...
The Amplified Saga: Structural Disunity in Morkinskinna
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The paettir of Morkinskinna De gamle sagaer om de enkelte konger er bleven udvidede med storre og mindre paettir, der skal tjaene til at belyse kongernes karakter; de star ikke i nogen organisk sammenhaeng med hovedsagaen.(1) (The ancient...
The Boston Public Library Manuscript of John Lydgate's Siege of Thebes: Its Scottish Owners and Inscriptions
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John Lydgate's Siege of Thebes has received increasing attention in recent years: scholars have debated its date of composition (probably in 1421), its conception as an additional `Canterbury Tale', and, above all, its structure and precise significance.(1)...
The Duke of Clarence and the Earls of March: Garter Knights and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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`Hony soit qui mal pence': this slightly altered version of the motto of the Order of the Garter appears at the end of the Middle English alliterative poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (SGGK), the only extant copy of which is to be found in London,...
The Form of the Self: Ancrene Wisse and Romance
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How can you be together to bear witness to secrecy, separation, singularity? (Derrida)(1) It is difficult to separate the self from the world. To lock oneself away, to give away everything one owns, to think of nothing but the hereafter, is still...
