Yoko Iyeiri & Margaret Connolly (eds.), And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche: Essays on Medieval English Presented to Professor Matsuji Tajima on his Sixtieth Birthday (Kaibunsha, 2002)
Festschrift for Professor Matsuji Tajima
This is a festschrift edited by Yoko Iyeiri and Margaret Connolly for Professor Matsuji Tajima, Kyushu University. As the contents show, a number of scholars in the world, including his friends and students have contributed articles to this volume.
This volume also includes Professor E. F. K. Koerner’s essay entitled “More than Thirty Years of Friendship with Professor Matsuji Tajima”, which describes how Professor Tajima established himself as an eminent scholar in medieval English language and literature.
270 pages, 5,000 yen
Contents
Preface
Contributors
Abbreviations
PROFESSOR MATSUJI TAJIMA AND HIS SCHOLARSHIP MORE THAN THIRTY YEARS OF FRIENDSHIP WITH PROFESSOR MATSUJI TAJIMA (E. F. K. Koerner)
ESSAYS ON MEDIEVAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE
The Old English Sound System from a North-Sea Germanic Perspective (Hans Frede Nielsen)
The Origins of Old English Breaking (Jeremy J. Smith)
Old English þæt deofol; se deofol or Just deofol (Eric G. Stanley)
Modality and Ambiguity in Chaucer’s trewely: With a Focus on Troilus and Criseyde (Yoshiyuki Nakao)
The Function of Word Classes and the Import of French in Middle English Poetry: A Comparative Study of The Romaunt of the Rose-A and Le Roman de la Rose (Sadahiro Kumamoto)
Fifteenth-Century Rhythmical Changes (Thomas Cable)
The Development of Non-assertive Any in Later Middle English and the Decline of Multiple Negation (Yoko Iyeiri)
ESSAYS ON MEDIEVAL LITERATURE
Beowulf 128: æfter wiste (Jun Terasawa)
Did Benvenutus Grassus Lecture at Montpellier? (Laurence M. Eldredge)
Some Observations on the Use of Manuscripts, Dates, and Preferred Editions in the Middle English Dictionary (Robert E. Lewis)
Troilus and the Law of Kind (Joseph Wittig)
The ‘Eight Points of Charity’ in John Rylands University Library MS English 85 (Margaret Connolly)
Caxton, Malory, Arthurian Chronicles, and French Romances: Intertextual Complexities (Edward Donald Kennedy)
The Lineage and Variations of the Biblical Phrase while the world standeth (Hideki Watanabe)
A LIST OF THE PUBLISHED WRITINGS OF PROFESSOR MATSUJI TAJIMA
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