For the Loue of Inglis Lede

This book contains a selection of papers presented at the Second Medieval English Studies Symposium held in Pozna, Poland in November 2003. The papers cover a wide range of topics in the areas of Old and Middle English language and literature: from language contact and Middle English syntax to pragmatics, and from Chaucer to Middle English religious and secular discourse.

Autorentext

The Editors: Martin Krygier; Ph.D. in 1993, D.Litt. in 1997; Fulbright fellow at UCLA from 1995 to 1996; author or co-author of three books on Old and Middle English; deputy head of the School of English at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland.
Liliana Sikorska; Ph.D. in 1994, D.Litt. in 1996; visiting scholar at the University of Florida, Brown University and UCLA; visiting professor at the American University, Washington, DC; author or co-author of seven books on medieval English and Irish literature; head of the Department of English Literature and Literary Linguistics at the School of English at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland.

Inhalt
Contents: D. Gary Miller: The morphosyntactic legacy of Scand-English contact Rafa Molencki: The use of the pluperfect tense in Early Middle English Saara Nevanlinna: Observations on assonance of fricative consonants in the rhymes of scribal manuscripts of LME verse Matylda Wodarczyk-Golka: Reported speech analysis in a historical pragmatic perspective: In search of a database Liliana Sikorska: Imagining heaven: Visions of bliss in medieval mystical discourse Andrzej Wicher: The Breton lay and the tale of magic: A preliminary attempt at arriving at the internal unity and ideology of selected Breton lays Barbara Kowalik: Addressing God in Middle English lyrics Rafa Borysawski: The co(s)mic space in Chaucer's «Knight's Tale».