Margaret Connolly

Individuality and Achievement in Middle English Poetry

Avian self-fashioning and self-doubt in The Owl and the Nightingale, Alexandra Barratt the governance of the English tongue - the Cursor Mundi and its French tradition, John J. Thompson the charms of simplicity - popular strains in the early Middle English love lyric, Karl Reichl the timelessness of The Simonie, Derek Pearsall English quaint and strange in Ne mai ne lewed lued, Thorlac Turville-Petre Middle English metaphysical verse? - imagery and style in some 14th-century religious poems, O.S. Pickering Titus goes hunting and hawking - the poetics of recreation and revenge in The Siege of Jerusalem, David Lawton redundancy in alliterative verse - St Erkenwald, John Burrow Loke on this wrytyng, man, for thi devocion - focal texts in some later Middle English religious lyrics, Julia Boffey the dramatic function of rhyme and stanza patterns in The Castle of Perseverance, Avril Henry masters and servants in the plays of the Wakefield Master, Myra Stokes performance, verse and occasion in the N-Town Mary Play, Peter Meredith.

What John Shirley said about Adam : authorship and attribution in Cambridge, Trinity College, MS R.3.20

This essay sets out a model which identifies eight distinct authorial and editorial roles in the transformation of oral sermons towritten collections in multi-text codices. This model is then applied to a different genre: collections of songs from the same background, the Devotio Moderna. The main differences and similarities between sermons and devotional songs are discussed in relation to the position of their authors, their generic characteristics and the needs of the manuscript users. The model turns out to be a strong heuristic tool for systematically reflecting on the genesis of multi-text codices. It can be used to compare the mechanics of writing and collecting in various genres and cultural circles.