Medievalia et Humanistica

266 pp. CONTENTS: Periodization and Self-Understanding in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times; Clio and The Lawyers; History and Prophecy in Medieval Thought; Beowulf As Heroic History; The Trouble with Muscovy; A Carolingian Borrowing from Second Nicaea; The Art of the Pseudo-Origen Homily De Maria Magdalena; The Ars Dictaminis and Rhetorical Textbooks at the Bolognese University in the Fourteenth Century; Cain and Abel in the Chester Creation; The Textual Reliability of Chaucer's Lyrics; Lord Berner's Translation of Artus de la Petite; Thomas Hoccleve, Bureaucrat; The Rhetoric of Optics in Lord Herbert's Poems to Diana Cecil.