Vassar mediaeval studies
By: by members of the Faculty of Vassar College.
Publisher: Yale Univ. Press
Published: 1923
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 493
Subjects: Machaut, Guillaume de; Akominatos, Michael; Boccaccio, Giovanni, -- 1313-1375.; Chaucer, Geoffrey, -- d. 1400.; Hoccleve, Thomas, -- 1370?-1450?; Gesta Romanorum.; Middle Ages -- History.; Arthurian romances; Ballads -- History and criticism; German literature -- History and criticism; Folklore -- Polynesia; England -- Law
Table of contents: value: Arthur in Avalon and the Banshee, by Gertrude Schoepperle Loomis; Polynesian analogues to the Celtic Otherworld and Fairy Mistress Themes, by Martha Warren Beckwith; The dry tree: symbol of death, by Rose Jeffries Peebles; Elements of comedy in the English and Scottish ballads, by Winifred Smith; Homely realism in mediaeval German literature, by Christabel Forsyth Fiske; Litigation in English society, by James Fosdick Baldwin; Queen of mediaeval virtues: Largesse, by Marian Parker Whitney; Chaucer and Machaut's Dit de la Fontaine Amoureuse, by Anna Theresa Kitchel; "En Mon Deduit a Moys de May"; The original of Hoccleve's "Balade to the Virgin and Christ, by Helen Estabrook Sandison; On the burning of books, by Louise Fargo Brown; A mediaeval humanist: Michael Akominatos, by Ida Carleton Thallon; "The genealogy of the Gods", by Cornelia Catlin Coulter; Classical elements in the Gesta Romanorum, by Ella Bourne; An Italian mathematical manuscript, by Elizabeth Buchanan Cowley; The realism of Gothic sculpture, by Oliver Samuel Tonks; Foretokens of the tonal principle, by George Sherman Dickinson; Bibliography.