Author Description

Norman Davis MBE FBA (1913 – 1989) was a New Zealand-born professor of English language and literature at the University of Oxford. He was one of the world’s leading authorities on early and medieval English. This volume of essays by some of his many friends and colleagues is a small expression of their gratitude and admiration. The volume also contains a list of Norman Davis’s published writings and a biographical note by D. M. Davin, formerly Academic Publisher to the University Press. Contents: Dan Davin: Norman Davis: the Growth of a Scholar; Michael Louis Samuels: Chaucer’s Spelling; George Kane: The text of The Legend of Good Women in CUL MS Gg. 4.27; Tauno F. Mustanoja: Chaucer's use of gan: some recent studies; Ethelbert Talbot Donaldson: Arcite’s Injury; John Anthony Burrow: Sir Thopas in the Sixteenth Century; Pamela Gradon: Trajanus redivivus: another look at Trajan in Piers Plowman; Thomas G. Duncan: The Middle English Mirro and Its manuscripts; Edward M. Wilson: A Poem Presented to William Waynflete as Bishop of Winchester; Anne Hudson: "No newe thyng": the Printing of Medieval Texts in the Early Reformation Period; P. L. Heyworth: Jocelin of Brakelond, Abbot Samson, and the Case of William the Sacrist; Geoffrey Victor Smithers: The Scansion of Havelok and the Use of ME -en and -e in Havelok and by Chaucer; Angus McIntosh: Present Indicative Plural Forms in the Later Middle English of the North Midlands; Celia Sisam: Early Middle English Drihtin; Arthur George Rigg: Clocks, Dials, and Other Terms.