Magistra Doctissima: Essays in Honor of Bonnie Wheeler

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Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Ann W. Astell and Howell Chickering Part 1. old and Middle english literature Kiyoko nagase and Her “Grendel’s Mother” 17 toshiyuki takamiya british Chaucer 25 Jeffrey Jerome Cohen Just How loathly Is the “Wyf”?: deconstructing Chaucer’s 34 “Hag”in The Wife of Bath’s Tale lorraine Kochanske Stock Lectio difficilior and All That: Another look at Arcite’s Injury 43 †Stephen Stallcup Part 2. Arthuriana Then and now Arthurian bones and english Kings, ca. 1180–ca. 1550 61 †Maurice Keen The Prophecies of Merlin: Their originality and Importance 71 Geoffrey Ashe, Mbe notes toward a Reappraisal of Malory’s Prose Style 80 d.Thomas Hanks, Jr. The Scottish Lancelot of the Laik and Malory’s Morte Darthur: 89 Contrasting Approaches to the Same Story edward donald Kennedy “The Strength of ten”: The Cultural Resonance of tennyson’s “Sir Galahad” 97 Alan lupack Googling the Grail 111 donald l. Hoffman and elizabeth S. Sklar Part 3. Joan of Arc,Then and now “because It Was Paris”: Joan of Arc’s Attack on Paris Reconsidered 123 Kelly R. devries Warrior not Warmonger: Screen Joans during World War I 132 Kevin Harty The drama of left-Wing Joan: From “Merlin’s Prophecy”to Hellman’s Lark 142 nadia Margolis Part 4. nuns and Spirituality A letter to the Abbess of Fontevrault from the Abbot of Clairvaux 155 Giles Constable The nuns of bival in the Thirteenth Century 159 William Chester Jordan The Sonic Presence of Mary Magdalene at the last Supper: The 169 Maundy of the Poor at barking Abbey Anne bagnall Yardley The Royal Purple Mantle of el Greco’s Espolio 183 Annemarie Weyl Carr Part 5. Royal Women Signed, Sealed, and delivered: The Patronage of Constance de France 201 William W. Clark The testamentary Strategies of Jeanne d’Évreux: The 217 endowment of Saint-denis in 1343 elizabeth A. R. brown Contributors 249 Index 255 ...