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W. Rothwell, W. R. J. Barron, David Blamires, Lewis Thorpe, eds.
Studies in Medieval Literature and Languages in memory of Frederick Whitehead.
Publisher: Manchester U.P., 1973.
ISBN 0719005507.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printer: Butler & Tanner, Frome & London.
Size: 142x221x33mm.
Page count: viii,403pp.
Main language: 1 essay in French throughout; the rest are in English, but quotations from other languages are given without translation.
Overall condition fair to good: this copy has no dustjacket; boards and spine a little frayed at the edges and corners; page tops foxed, and the undersides a little grubby; a rip to the outside edge of the half-title page; text appears to be free of marking.

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Weight without packaging: 661g.

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Contents:
Barron, French romance & structure of Gawain & the Green Knight;
Blamires, Sources & literary structure of Wigamur;
Bogdanow, Transformation of role of Perceval in some 13th-c prose romances;
Currie, Hypothetical sentences in 15th & 16th-c French;
Diverres, Chivalry & fin'amor in Chevalier au Lion;
Gordon, Characterisation in Chaucer’s Troilus & Criseyde;
Gybbon-Monypenny, Machaut's erotic 'autobiography' — precedents for form of Voir-Dit;
Hope, Gallicisms in Dante’s Divina Commedia — stylistic problem?;
Kennedy, Role of supernatural in 1st part of OFr prose Lancelot;
Lodge, 'Character' of Renart in Branch I;
Lyons, Notes on Roman de la Rose — golden chain & other topics in Jean de Meun;
Michael, Spanish Perceforest — a recent discovery;
Pickford, Sir Tristrem, Walter Scott, & Thomas;
Reid, Note on homonymic convergence — aimer/esmer;
Rothwell, Appearance & reality in Anglo-Norman;
Russell-Gebbett, Pujol's Documents en vulgar — partial retranscription & commentary;
Shirt, Chrétien de Troyes & the cart;
Taylor, Reason & faith in Roman de Perceforest;
Thorpe, Merlin's sardonic laughter;
Vinaver, Quelques vers de Béroul;
Wallbank, Emperor Otto & Heinrich von Kempten;
Zaddy, Chevalier de la Charrete & the de amore of Andreas Capellanus.

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: 3
Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: Frederick Whitehead's publications
Index: no

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