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Volume 55

Criticism of the Works of World Authors from Classical Antiquity through the Fourteenth Century, from the First Appraisals

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Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Vol. 55
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Acknowledgments

The editors wish to thank the copyright holders of the 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.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIALS IN CMLC, VOLUME 55, WERE REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

Anderson, George K. From Introduction to “The Saga of the Volsungs©: Together with Excerpts from the “Nornageststhattr” and Three Chapters from the Prose Edda. University of Delaware Press, 1982. Copyright © 1982 by University of Delaware Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission. —Bourne, Ella. From “Classical Elements in The Gesta Romanorum,” in Vassar Medieval Studies. Edited by Christabel Forsyth Fiske. Yale University Press, 1923. Copyright © 1923 by Yale University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission. —Byock, Jesse L. From Introduction to ©The Saga of the Volsungs©: The Norse Epic of Sigurd the Dragonslayer. University of California Press, 1990. Copyright © 1990 by University of California Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission. —Esheleman, Lloyd Wendell. From “Sigurd the Volsung and a Poetry Chair at Oxford,” in A Victorian Rebel: The Life of William Morris. Octagon Books, 1971. Copyright © 1971 by Octagon Books. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Hipponcrene Books, Inc. —Finke, Laurie and Martin Shichtman. From “The Mont St. Michel Giant: Sexual Violence and Imperialism in the Chronicles of Wace and Layamon,” in Violence against Women in Medieval Texts. University of Florida Press, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by University of Florida Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the University Press of Florida. —Jochens, Jenny. From “The Whetter: Brynhildr,” in Old Norse Images of Women. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by University of Pennsylvania Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission. —Kalinke, Marianne E. From “A Paradigm for Bridal-Quest Romance,” in Bridal-Quest Romance in Medieval Iceland. Cornell University Press, 1990. Copyright © 1990 by Cornell University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Cornell University Press. —Maurer, Oscar. From “William Morris and Gesta Romanorum,” in Studies in Language, Literature, and Culture of the Middle Ages and Later. Edited by E. Bagby Atwood and Archibald A. Hill. The University of Texas at Austin, 1969. Copyright © 1969 by The University of Texas at Austin. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission. —Mitchell, Stephen A. From “Origins and Influences,” in Heroic Sagas and Ballads. Cornell University Press, 1991. Copyright © 1991 by Cornell University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Cornell University Press. —Shichtman, Martin B. From “Gawain in Wace and Layamon: A Case of Metahistorical Evolution,” in Medieval Texts and Contemporary Readers, edited by Laurie S. Finke and Martin B. Shichtman. Cornell University Press, 1987. Copyright © 1987 by Cornell University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Cornell University Press. —Smalley, Beryl. From “Robert Holcot,” in English Friars and Antiquity in the Early Fourteenth Century. Basil Blackwell, 1960. Copyright © 1960 by Basil Blackwell. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission. —Speed, Diane. From “Middle English Romance and the Gesta Romanorum,” in Tradition and Transformation in Medieval Romance. Edited by Rosalind Field. D.S. Brewer, 1999. Copyright © 1999 by D.S. Brewer. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission. —St. Clair, Gloriana. From “Volsunga Saga and Narn: Some Analogies,” in Proceedings of the J.R.R. Tolkien Centenary Conference 1992. Edited by Patricia Reynolds and Glen GoodKnight. The Mythopoeic Press, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by The Mythopoeic Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission. —Weld, John. From Introduction to ©Gesta Romanorum©: A Record of Ancient Histories Newly Perused by Richard Robinson (1595). Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1973. Copyright © 1973 by Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIALS IN CMLC, VOLUME 55, WERE REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:

American Journal of Philology, v. 114, 1993; v. 117, 1996; v. 121, 2000. Reproduced by permission. —Bibliotheque d’Humanisme et Renaissance, v. LIX, 1997. Reproduced by permission. —The Chaucer Review, v. 8, n. 4, Spring, 1974,

pp. 311-9, for “Medieval Symbols and the U” by Shirley Marchalonis; v. 36, n. 1, 2001, pp. 16-27, for “Walter W. Skeat’s Canterbury Tale,” by James D. Johnson. Copyright © 1974, 2001 by The Pennsylvania State University. Reproduced by permission of the publisher. —Classical Philology, v. 85, January, 1990, for “The Nature of Proofs in Antiphon,” by Michael Gagarin. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, University of Chicago Press. —Classical Quarterly, v. xxvii,

n. 2, 1987, pp. 502-04, for “Two Men in a Boat: Antiphon, On the Murder of Herodes,” by Steven Lattimore; v. 49, n. 1, 1999, pp. 62-73, for “The Influence of Forensic Oratory on Thucydides’s Principles of Method,” by I. M. Plant. Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press. —Clio: A Journal of Literature, History and the Philosophy of History,v.29, Fall, 1999. Reproduced by permission. —ELH, v. 42, Summer, 1977. Reproduced by permission. —English Language Notes, v. XXXII, September, 1994. Reproduced by permission. —French Studies, v. XLVII, n. 1, January, 1993, pp. 1-5, for “Wace and Renaut de Beaujeu,” by Peter Noble. Copyright assigned to the Society for French Studies through Oxford University Press. Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press. —Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies,v.31, Spring, 1990. Reproduced by permission. —Hermes: Zeitschrift fur Klassische Philologie, v. 115, 1987. Reproduced by permission. —Kentucky Romance Quarterly, v. 31, 1984. Reproduced by permission. —Mabillard, Amanda, “Sources for The Merchant of Venice,” in Shakespeare Online, (2000). Reproduced by permission of the author. —Medium Aevum,v. XXXII, 1963; v. LIV, 1985. Reproduced by permission. —Modern Language Notes, v. 34, March, 1919. Reproduced by permission. —Modern Philology, v. 87, August, 1989, for “The Fictional Margin: The Merlin of the Brut,” by Jeff Rider. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, University of Chicago Press. —Nottingham Mediaeval Studies, v. XLIII, 1999. Reproduced by permission. —Philological Quarterly, v. XLVII, January, 1968; v. 64. Fall, 1985; v. 73, 1994. Reproduced by permission. —The Review of English Studies, v. XXXI, n. 123, August, 1980, pp. 257-70, for “The Sources of The Thre Prestis of Beblis and Their Significance,” by R. J. Lyall. Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press. —Revue de Literature Comparee, v. 51, July-September, 1977. Reproduced by permission. —Romance Notes, v. XXII, Fall, 1981; v. XXXVII, Fall, 1996. Reproduced by permission. —Romance Philology, v. XVIII, August, 1964. © 1964 Regents of the University of California. Reproduced by permission. —Shakespeare Quarterly, v. 5, Spring, 1954. Reproduced by permission. —Speculum, v. 71, April, 1996. Reproduced by permission. —Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies, v. XXXIX, July, 1964. Reproduced by permission. —Studies in Philology, volume 81, Winter. Copyright © 1984 by the University of North Carolina Press. Reproduced by permission of the publisher. —Studies in the Renaissance, v. 13, 1966. Reproduced by permission. —Transactions of the American Philological Association,v.114, 1984, pp. 71-85. © American Philological Association. Reproduced by permission of The Johns Hopkins University Press. —University of California Publications in Modern Philology, v. 3, November 24, 1916. Reproduced by permission.

PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS APPEARING IN CMLC, VOLUME 55, WERE RECEIVED FROM THE FOLLOWING SOURCES:

Binding from “Volsunga Saga,” 12th century Icelandic prose, photograph. Royal Library of Copenhagen. Reproduced by permission. —Brunhild, a princess found in ancient Germanic heroic literature, illustration. © Bettmann/Corbis. Reproduced by permission. —First page of a 15th century version of the “Gesta Romanorum,” photograph. Royal Library of Copenhagen. Reproduced by permission. —Title page from “Antiphontis Orationes et Fragmenta,” edited by Fridericum Blass, photograph. Courtesy of the Graduate Library, University of Michigan. Reproduced by permission.

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