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55One vivid description of folktale research, still applicable although more than a half century old, reads, “Folktale study is like a desert journey, where the only landmarks are the bleached bones of earlier theories.” Because theories have proven to be so ephemeral in comparison with the tales themselves , it might seem prudent to place more stock in the tales and less in the theories or at least to take an eclectic approach toward theorizing so as to hedge bets; but not all scholars of folktal…Read more
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1AP Orbán, ed., Polythecon.(Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Mediaeualis, 93.) Turnhout: Brepols, 1990. Paper. Pp. xxxiv, 286 (review)Speculum 68 (3): 853-853. 1993.
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2J. Szövérffy, Latin Hymns.(Typologie des Sources du Moyen Age Occidental, 55.) Turnhout: Brepols, 1989. Paper. Pp. 141Speculum 68 (2): 566-567. 1993.
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9On Philology (edited book)Pennsylvania State University Press. 1990.As the Byzantinist Ihor Ševčenko once observed, "Philology is constituting and interpreting the texts that have come down to us. It is a narrow thing, but without it nothing else is possible." This definition accords with Saussure's succinct description of the mission of philology: "especially to correct, interpret, and comment upon the texts." Philology is not just a grand etymological or lexicographical enterprise. It also involves restoring to works as much of their original life and nuances …Read more
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Medievalia Et Humanistica No. 30: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2004.Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since 1970, a new series, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America and edited by an international board of distinguished scholars and critics, has published interdisciplinary articles. In yearly hardbound volumes, the new series publishes significant scholarship, criticism, and reviews treat…Read more
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17Petrus Blesensis, Petri Blesensis carmina, ed. C. Wollin. Turnhout: Brepols, 1998. Paper. Pp. 714; tables (review)Speculum 78 (2): 585-587. 2003.
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63Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of AmericaSpeculum 82 (3): 808-829. 2007.
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46Leo Treitler, With Voice and Pen: Coming to Know Medieval Song and How It Was Made. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xxx, 506 plus black-and-white frontispiece, 15 black-and-white plates, and 1 CD-ROM; black-and-white figures, tables, and musical examples (review)Speculum 81 (3): 929-931. 2006.
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11The Virgilian Tradition: The First Fifteen Hundred Years (review)Speculum 84 (2): 509-510. 2009.
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13A Handlist Of The Latin Writers Of Great Britain And Ireland Before 1540 (review)Speculum 74 (4): 1121-1122. 1999.
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20Third International Beast Epic, Fable and Fabliau Colloquium: Münster 1979, Proceedings (review)Speculum 59 (4): 975-976. 1984.
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Areas of Interest
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy |