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Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of World Authors from Classical Antiquity through the Fourteenth Century, from the First Appraisals to Current Evaluations

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The editors wish to thank the copyright holders of the excerpted criticism included in this volume and the permissions managers of many book and magazine publishing companies for assisting us in securing reproduction rights. We are also grateful to the staffs of the Detroit Public Library, the Library of Congress, the University of Detroit Mercy Library, Wayne State University Purdy/Kresge Library Complex, and the University of Michigan Libraries for making their resources available to us. Following is a list of the copyright holders who have granted us permission to reproduce material in this volume of CMLC. Every effort has been made to trace copyright, but if omissions have been made, please let us know.

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Arkiv for Nordisk Filologi, v. 88, 1973. Reproduced by permission.—Arthuriana, v. 8, Winter, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by Arthuriana. Reproduced by permission.—The Chaucer Review, v. 22, 1988. Copyright 1988 by The Pennsylvania State University. Reproduced by permission of The Pennsylvania State University Press.—The Classical Journal, v. 57, 1962. Copyright Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Inc., 1962, renewed 1990. Reproduced by permission.— Forum for Modern Language Studies, v. 22, January, 1986 for “Trickery as an Element of the Character of Renart” by Roger Bellon. Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press and the author.—Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies,

  • v. 26, 1966; v. 29, 1969. Both reproduced by permission.—L’Esprit Createur, v. XVI, Spring, 1976. © 1976 by L’Esprit Createur. Reproduced by permission.—Medium Aevum, v. 51, 1982. Reproduced by permission.—Modern Philology, v. 97, August, 1999. © 1999 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Monumenta Nipponica, v. XXII, 1967; v. XXXI, Spring, 1976. © 1967, 1976 Sophia University. Both reproduced by permission.— Mosaic, v. 4, 1970. © Mosaic 1970. Acknowledgment of previous publication is herewith made.—The North Dakota Quarterly, v. 31, Winter-Spring, 1963. Copyright 1963, renewed 1991 by The University of North Dakota. Reproduced by permission.—Nottingham Mediaeval Studies, v. 20, 1976. Reproduced by permission.—Papers on Language and Literature, v. 25, Spring, 1989. Copyright © 1989 by The Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Reproduced by permission.—Quondam et Futurus, v. 1, Spring, 1991. Reproduced by permission.—Reading Medieval Studies,
  • v. 12, 1986; v. 19, 1993. Both reproduced by permission.—Saga-Book, v. XIX, Part 4, 1977. Reproduced by permission.— Speculum, v. LIV, July, 1979. © 1979 The Medieval Academy of America. Reproduced by permission.—Studies in Philology, v. 62, 1965. Copyright © 1965 by the University of North Carolina Press. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.
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    Best, Thomas W. From Reynard the Fox. Twayne Publishers, 1983. Copyright © 1983 by G. K. Hall & Company. All rights reserved. The Gale Group.—Bidard, Josseline. From “Reynard the Fox as Anti-Hero,” in Heroes and Heroines in Medieval English Literature. Edited by Leo Carruthers. D. S. Brewer, 1994. © Josseline Bidard 1991. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Blackham, H. J. From The Fable as Literature. The Athlone Press, 1985. Copyright © 1985

    H. J. Blackham. Reproduced by permission of the Athlone Press.—Blake, N. F. From “Reynard the Fox in England,” in Aspects of the Medieval Animal Epic. Edited by E. Rombauts and A. Welkenhuysen. Leuven University Press, 1975. © 1975 by Leuven University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Blakeway, A. A. From “The Date of Archilochus,” in Greek Poetry and Life: Essays Presented to Gilbert Murray. Reprinted from Greek Poetry and Life: Essays Presented to Gilbert Murray on His Seventieth Birthday, January 2, 1936. Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1936. Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press.—Brooke, Christopher N. L. From The Church and the Welsh Border in the Central Middle Ages. The Boydell Press, 1986. © Christopher Brooke 1986. Reproduced by permission.—Burnett, Anne Pippin. From Three Archaic Poets: Archilochus, Alcaeus, Sappho. Harvard University Press, 1983. © 1983 by Anne Pippin Burnett. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Gerald Duckworth & Co., Ltd.—Cook, Robert. From “Reading for Character in ‘Grettis Saga,’” in Sagas of the Icelanders: A Book of Essays. Edited by John Tucker. Garland Publishing, Inc., 1989. Essay © 1989 by Robert Cook. Reproduced by permission.—Crick, Julia C. From The Historia Regum Britannie of Geoffrey of Monmouth: Dissemination and Reception in the Later Middle Ages, Vol. IV. D. S. Brewer, 1991. © Julia C. Crick 1991. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Fjalldal, Magnus. From The Long Arm of Coincidence: The Frustrated Connection between “Beowulf” and “Grettis Saga.” University of Toronto Press,

    1998. © University of Toronto Press Incorporated 1998. Reproduced by permission.—Gravdal, Kathryn. From Ravishing Maidens: Writing Rape in Medieval French Literature and Law. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. Copyright © 1991 by Kathryn Gravdal. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Hanning, Robert W. From The Vision of History in Early Britain: From Gildas to Geoffrey of Monmouth. Columbia University Press, 1966. Copyright © 1966 by Columbia University Press. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Hudson-Williams, T. From Early Greek Elegy: The Elegiac Fragments of Callinus, Archilochus Mimnermus, Tyrtaeus, Solon, Xenophanes & Others. Edited by T. Hudson-Williams. The University of Wales Press Board, 1926. Reproduced by permission.—Leckie, R. William, Jr. From The Passage of Dominion: Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Periodization of Insular History in the Twelfth Century. University of Toronto Press, 1981. © University of Toronto Press 1981. Reproduced by permission.—MacDougall, Hugh A. From Racial Myth in English History: Trojans, Teutons, and Anglo-Saxons. Harvest House, 1982, 156 pages. Copyright © 1982 by Harvest House Ltd. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—McCullough, Helen Craig. From an introduction to The Tale of the Heike. Translated by Helen Craig McCullough. Stanford University Press, 1988. © 1988 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. Reproduced by permission of the publishers, Stanford University Press.—Plutschow, Herbert. From “The Placatory Nature of ‘The Tale of the Heike’: Additional Documents and Thoughts,” in Currents in Japanese Culture: Translations and Transformations. Edited by Amy Vladeck Heinrich. Columbia University Press, 1997. Copyright © 1997 Columbia University Press, New York. All rights reserved. Republished with permission of the publisher.—Rankin, H. D. From Archilochus of Paros. Noyes Press, 1977. Copyright © 1977 by H. D. Rankin. Reproduced by permission.—Roberts, Brynley F. From The Arthur of the Welsh: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval Welsh Literature. Rachel Bromwich, A. O. H. Jarman, and Brynley F. Roberts, eds. University of Wales Press, 1991. © Brynley F. Roberts, 1991. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Sands, Donald B. From “Reynard the Fox and the Manipulation of the Popular Proverb,” in The Learned and the Lewed: Studies in Chaucer and Medieval Literature. Edited by Larry D. Benson. Harvard University Press, 1974. Copyright © 1974 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Taylor, Henry Osborn. From A Historian’s Creed. Harvard University Press, 1939. Copyright 1939, renewed 1966 by The President and Fellows of Harvard College. Reproduced by permission.—Thompson, Mary L. H. From “A Possible Source of Geoffrey’s Roman War?” in The Arthurian Tradition: Essays in Convergence. Edited by Mary Flowers Braswell and John Bugge. The University of Alabama Press, 1988. Copyright © 1988 by The University of Alabama Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Varley, Paul. From “Warriors as Courtiers: The Taira in ‘Heike Monogatari,’” in Currents in Japanese Culture: Translations and Transformations. Edited by Amy Vladeck Heinrich. Columbia University Press, 1997. Copyright © 1997 Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. Republished with permission of the publisher.—Varty, Kenneth. From Reynard the Fox: A Study of the Fox in Medieval English Art. Leicester University Press, 1967. © Kenneth Varty 1967. Reproduced by permission of Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.—Wackers, P. From “The Use of Fables in ‘Reinaerts Historie,’” in Third International Beast Epic, Fable, and Fabliau Colloquium. Edited by Jan Goossens and Timothy Sodmann. Bohlau Verlag, 1981. Copyright © 1981 by Kommission für Mundart und Namenforschung. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Will, Frederic. From Archilochus. Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1969. Copyright © 1969 by Twayne Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. The Gale Group.—Wright, Neil. From an introduction to The Historia Regum Britannie of Geoffrey of Monmouth: Bern, Burgerbibliothek, MS. 568, Vol. I. Edited by Neil Wright. D. S. Brewer, 1985. © Neil Wright 1984. Reproduced by permission.—Wright, Neil. From an introduction to The Historia Regum Britannie of Geoffrey of Monmouth: Gesta Regum Britannie, Vol. V. Edited and translated by Neil Wright. D. S. Brewer, 1991. Introduction, translation and editorial matter © Neil Wright 1991. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Wright, Neil. From The Historia Regum Britannie of Geoffrey of Monmouth: The First Variant Version--A Critical Edition, Vol. II. Edited by Neil Wright. D. S. Brewer, 1988. Introduction and editorial matter © Neil Wright 1988. Reproduced by permission.

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    Text page from a 13th century manuscript of “Roman de Renart,” photograph. The Granger Collection Ltd. Reproduced by permission.—Text page from an early 14th century manuscript of “Geoffrey of Monmouth,” photograph. The Granger Collection Ltd. Reproduced by permission.

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