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Arthur Groos (Editor)
Magister Regis: Studies in Honor of Robert Earl Laske
Fordham University Press, 1986. First edition. 0823211614 292 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 7.25" x 10.25", is bound in red cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book displays shelfwear, with faint water stains on front cover. Binding is firm. Interior is clean and bright. Illustrated with b&w frontispiece photographic portrait. 
Festschrift for medievalist Robert Earl Kaske (1921-1989), who founded one of the preeminent medieval studies graduate programs at Cornell University.
Contents:
"R. E. Kaske: Magister Regis" by Emerson Brown, Jr.; ""Insulae gentium": Biblical Influence on Old English Poetic Vocabulary" by Charles D. Wright; "An Unpublished Story of Michael the Archangel and Its Connections" by James E. Cross; "Scyld Schefing and the "stirps regia": Pagan Myth and Christian Kingship in "Beowulf"" by Thomas D. Hill; ""Interlace" as a Medieval Narrative Technique with Special Reference to "Beowulf"" by Morton W. Bloomfield; ""Brunanburh" 12b-13a and Some Skaldic Passages" by Joseph Harris; ""Rana loquax" and the Frogs of Provençal Poetry" by Daniel J. Ransom; "Comic Scriptural Allusions in Beroul's "Tristan"" by Alfred Kellogg; "Imagination, Medicine, and Rhetoric in Andreas Capellanus' "De amore"" by Mary F. Wack; "Perceval and Parzival Discover Knighthood" by Arthur Groos; "William of Orange in the "Canso de la Crosada"" by Alice M. Colby-Hall; "The Light of Venus and the Poetry of Dante" by Giuseppe Mazzota; "Dante's Beard: "Sic et Non" ("Purgatorio" 31.68)" by R. A. Shoaf; "Epicurean Securalism in Dante and Bocaccio: Athenian Roots and Florentine Revival" by Emerson Brown, Jr.; "The Luuve-Ron" of Thomas of Hales" by James W. Earl; "The Trinity in Langland and Abelard" by Penn R. Szittya; "The Middle English "Absolute Infinitive" and "The Speech of Book"" by Joseph S. Wittig; "Genius and Interpretation in the "Confessio Amantis"" by Winthrop Wetherbee; "Konrad Gesner and Neoplatonic Poetics" by Wesley Trimpi; "Poetry and Painting in Lope's "El castigo sin venganza"" by Robert González Echevarría. Publications by R. E. Kaske.

Magister Regis: Studies in Honor of Robert Earl Laske

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