Contributors

Contributors KENNETH S. CAHN has taught history and economics at several of the schools of the City University of New York. He has published several essays on the medieval pricing systems in such journals as Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History and TheJournal ofEuro­ pean Economic History, is completing a study of the Carolingian economic system, and has begun a study on Chaucer's Reeve. He is currently editor of Annals ofScholarship. A substantial part of the study presented here was done with the help of an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship awarded by the City University of New York. STEPHEN KNIGHT, Associate Professor of English at the University of Sydney, Australia, has published a monograph on The Structure of Sir Thomas Malory's Arthuriad and two books on Chaucer, Rymyng Craftily and The Poetry ofThe Canterbury Tales. He has co-edited two collections ofessays, Cunning Exiles and The Radical Reader, and has written essays on medieval and modern English literature and on early Celtic literature. Forthcoming in 1980 is Form and Ideology in Crime Fiction; at present he is working on 'The Franklin's Tale' for A Variorum Edition ofthe Works ofGeoffrey Chaucer and is planning a book on the Arthurian legend. ANNE MIDDLETON, Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, teaches Old and Middle English, and has published articles on Aelfric, Langland, and Chaucer. She is work­ ing on late fourteenth-century theories of poetry and views of the writer's task in relation to contemporary and traditional accounts ofthe nature ofwork and leisure. She is preparing a monograph on Piers Plowman, and further papers on the literary performances of the Canterbury pilgrims. 286 CONTRIBUTORS PAUL OLSON is Foundation Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He has published articles on Provern;al litera­ ture, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Pound, seventeenth-century litera­ ture and visual and literary iconology, and books on Native Amer­ ican literature, educational reform, the nature of the liberal arts, and educational testing. He is preparing a book on Chaucer's political-social idealism and, perhaps, one on the epic. ELIZABETH SALTER was educated at Bedford College, University of Lon­ don, has taught at the University of Cambridge, England and at the University of Connecticut at Storrs, and is presently Professor of Medieval Literature at the University of York. Her major publications include Piers Plowman, an Introduction (1963), Chau­ cer, the Clerk's and Knight's Tales (1963), A Study ofNicholas Love's Mirror ofthe Blessed Life ofJesu Christ ( 1974), Studies in the Historical Contexts of Medieval Literature (forthcoming in 1980), and, in collaboration with D. A. Pearsall, Piers Plowman: the C Text (1967) and Landscapes and Seasons of the Medieval World (1972). Professor Salter has also published numerous articles on devotional prose, poetry, and art. [Since this statement was prepared, the sad news of Elizabeth Salter's death has been reported to the editor. Brief as it is, the above account of her professional achievements gives some indication of how great will be her loss to medieval scholarship, and how much she will be missed by all ofus who have admired her work and been inspired by her example.] 287 ...