Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 8.

261 p. Einband leicht berieben, sonst gut. - Small abrasions on the dustjacket, otherwise fine. - Contents: Editorial Note -- Preface -- Huizinga, Kilgour and the Decline of Chivalry -- Maurice Keen, Balliol College, Oxford -- Printing and Military Culture of Renaissance Venice -- J. R. Hale, University College London -- The Concept of the Oral Formula as an Impediment to Our Understanding of Medieval Oral Poetry -- Michael Curschmann, Princeton University -- A Poetics of Historicism? Recent Trends in Medieval Literary Study -- Stephen G. Nichols, Jr., Dartmouth College -- Everyman and the Implications of Bernardine Humanism in the Character "Knowledge" -- Thomas J. Jambeck, University of Connecticut -- History and Paradigm in the Towneley Cycle -- Jeanne S. Martin, Stanford University -- William of Malmesbury and the Letters of Alcuin -- Rodney M. Thomson, University of Tasmania -- The Validity of Boccaccio's Self-Exegesis in His Teseida Robert Hollander, Princeton University -- Rhetoric, John Gower, and the Late Medieval Exemplum -- Kurt O. Olsson, University of Idaho -- Erasmi Convivia: The Banquet Colloquies of Erasmus Lawrence V. Ryan, Stanford University -- The Narrative Style of The Man of Law's Tale -- Paul M. Clogan, North Texas State University -- REVIEW ARTICLES -- Some Recent Works for Palaeographers -- M. L. Colker, University of Virginia -- The Pearl-child: Topos and Archetype in the Middle English Pearl -- Robert Levine, Boston University -- Chaucer Criticism -- D. W. Robertson, Jr., Princeton University -- Books Received.