Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature by Jay Ruud (2006).pdf

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF

MEDIEVAL LITERATURE

Jay Ruud

For Stacey,

My own Beatrice

Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature

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Ruud, Jay.

Encyclopedia of medieval literature / Jay Ruud.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-8160-5497-5 (hardcover : alk. paper)

1. Literature, Medieval—Encyclopedias. 2. Literature, Medieval—Bio-bibliography. I. Title.

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C ONTENTS

Preface

Introduction

Authors’ Time Line

Wr i ters Covere d , by

Language of Composition

Entries A to Z

Selected Bibliography

711

Contributors

716

Index

717

P REFACE

I owe an important debt of gratitude to the con-

tributors whose expertise helped put this book

together. They are listed individually at the end

of the volume, but I must specifically acknowl-

edge the work of Albrecht Classen of the Univer-

sity of Arizona and Elisa Narin van Court of

Colby College, who gladly contributed a signifi-

cant number of entries each. I also want to thank

the three editorial assistants who helped with the

editing of the manuscript and contributed a

number of entries themselves: Malene A. Little at

Northern State University and Leslie Johnston

and Michelle Palmer at the University of Central

Arkansas.

I also want to express my gratitude to the Uni-

versity Research Council at the University of Cen-

tral Arkansas, chaired by Elaine McNiece, for their

generous grant that enabled me to hire two of my

editorial assistants.

Finally, I want to thank Doubleday, a division

of Random House, Inc., for permission to quote

extensively from German and Italian Lyrics of the

Middle Ages and from The Lyrics of the Trouba-

dours and Trouvères, two excellent 1973 antholo-

gies translated by Frederick Goldin.

Jay Ruud

Conway, Arkansas

November 2004

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