Talks about the career of the distinguished medievalist, Ronald Waldron. This work focuses on Middle English alliterative tradition. It discusses the topics such as: feasting in Middle English alliterative poetry; context in the works of the Gawain-poet; Henryson's "Testament of Cresseid"; Layamon; and Middle English verse in Chronicles.

The essays in this volume celebrate the career of the distinguished medievalist, Ronald Waldron. Fittingly, they focus on the Middle English alliterative tradition, but do not exclude material in other areas. Acting as a linking theme is a concern with the relationship of texts to their contexts, whether historical, philosophical, linguistic, or codicological. The topics discussed include feasting in Middle English alliterative poetry; setting and context in the works of the Gawain-poet; Henryson's "Testament of Cresseid"; Layamon; and Middle English verse in Chronicles. The contributors include: Malcolm Andrew, Rosamund Allen, Ralph Hanna, Susan Powell, Jane Roberts, Jeremy Smith, Derek Pearsall, N.F. Blake, Julia Boffey, A.S.G. Edwards, Janet Cowen, Roger Dahood, Elton D. Higgs, and George Kane.

Setting and context in the works of the Gawain-Poet, Malcom Andrew
performance and structure of the alliterative "Morte Arthure", Rosamund S. Allen
feasting in Middle English alliterative poetry, Ralph Hanna
untying the knot - reading "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", Susan Powell
two "Laymon" readings, Jane Roberts
semantics and metrical form in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", Jeremy J. Smith
"Quha wait gift all that Chauceir wrait was trew?" Henryson's testament of Cresseid, Derek Pearsall
the links in "The Canterbury Tales", Norman Blake
Middle English verse in chronicles, Julia Boffey, A.S.G Edwards
an English reading of Boccaccio - a selective Middle English version of Boccaccio's "De Mulieribus Claris" in British Library MS Additional 10304, Janet M. Cowen
temporal and spiritual indebtedness in "The Canterbury Tales", Elton D. Higgs
notes on Chaucer, George Kane.