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This book is a worthy posthumous tribute to what the author calls 'a remarkable constellation of great scholars': the Oxford teachers who set the standards that she has followed and [...]

NEIL CARTLIDGE. Medieval Marriage: Literary Approaches 1100-1300. Pp. xii+250. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997. £39.50. A new generation has emerged, bringing to medieval studies a sense of perspective which it [...]

ALCUIN BLAMIRES. Pp. viii+280. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. £40. The title of this succinct and thoughtful book is deliberately forensic; the adversarial 'for' is reinforced throughout by the tautological term [...]

Narrative, Authority, and Power: The Medieval Exemplum and the Chaucerian Tradition. By LARRY SCANLON. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, 20) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1994. xii [...]

Presents the author's analysis of a phrase in a Middle English metaphor in a sermon for the Fourth Sunday of Lent. Miscopying of the word sheef; Parallel passage in a Latin text discovered by Christina von Nolcken; Interventions in Middle English devised to elucidate the metaphor; Nolcken's misreading of a Latin phrase.