Table of Contents

Preface
Understanding an Old English Wisdom Verse: Maxims II, Lines 10ff by Fred C. Robinson
Sapientia et Fortitudo in the Old English Judith by Robert E. Kaske
The Drama of The Wanderer by William Alfred
Of Words and Deeds: The Coastguard's Maxim Once More by Stanley B. Greenfield
The Beowulf Poet's Sense of History by Roberta Frank
Langland and Some Scriptural Quotations by E. Talbot Donaldson
The Perplexities of William Langland by George Kane
Narration and the Invention of Experience: Episodic Form in Piers Plowman by Anne Middleton
The Occasion of The Parliament of Fowls by Larry D. Benson
Venus in the "north-north-west"? Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls, 117 by Alan J. Lazarus
The Philosophies in Chaucer's Troilus by Donald R. Howard
Miracles of the Virgin, Medieval Anti-Semitism, and the "Prioress's Tale" by Robert Worth Frank Jr.
Chaucer's Lists by Stephen A. Barney
The Wisdom of the Fool by Siegfried Wenzel
The Publications of Morton W. Bloomfield: 1939–1981 by George Hardin Brown
Notes

About the Author

Larry D. Benson was a professor of English at Harvard University. He was the general editor of the Riverside Chaucer and published widely on Chaucer. Siegfried Wenzel is professor emeritus of English at the University of Pennsylvania and the chair of the Chaucer Library Committee.