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Myra Stokes and T. L. Burton, eds.
Medieval Literature and Antiquities: Studies in Honour of Basil Cottle.
Published Cambridge; D. S. Brewer, 1987.
ISBN 085991237X;
ISBN-13: 9780859912372.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printer: St. Edmundsbury Press, Bury St. Edmunds.
Size: 160x240x25mm.
Page count: text xii,201pp; plates 14pp.
Main language: English; editions of texts, and some quotations from other languages given without translation.
Overall condition fair to good: the dustjacket on this copy is not too heavily worn; text pages yellowed with age, and the plate pages starting to show yellow; text appears to be free of marking.

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Weight without packaging: 593g.

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Contents:
Ó Carragáin, Liturgical interpretation of Bewcastle Cross;
Crabtree, Ladders & lines of connection in Anglo-Saxon religious art & literature;
Cross, Insular connections of a sermon for Holy Innocents [includes edn. of Latin text];
Kennedy, "A Bird in Bishopswood" — newly discovered lines of alliterative verse from the late 14th c. [includes edn. of ME text];
Jacobs, Owl & the Nightingale and the bishops;
Burrow, Avowing of Arthur;
Bishop, Relatives at the court of Heaven — contrasted treatments in Piers Plowman & Pearl;
Goldsmith, Will's pilgrimage in Piers Plowman B;
Wirtjes, Piers Plowman B xviii 371 — "right ripe must";
Scattergood, Chaucer in the suburbs;
Burton, Defining daftness;
Rogers, Thomas Warton & the waxing of the Middle Ages;
Stokes, Smart talk by Miss Austen.

Illustrations: 14 pages of monochrome plates
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: Cottle's published works
Index: no

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