New Approaches to Medieval Textuality

Seven papers selected and edited from a 1987 colloquium in which medieval scholars interested in semiotics demonstrated new approaches to the field that were not being published in the professional literature. Among the topics are textual problems of popular literature with ballads as a case study, folk and episodic narrative, the modes of the Old English metrical charms, and the lesson of the bestiary. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.