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Essays reflecting the present state of Layamon studies, identifying problems and outlining current directions in research.
List of contents
A preliminary note on British Library, Cotton MS Caligula A.ix, Jane Roberts; La(yogh)amon's archaic use of the verbal prefix "To-", Marshal S. Grant and Douglas Moffat; negation in the "Brut", Yoko Iyeiri; La(yogh)amon's un-Anglo-Saxon syntax, Eric G. Stanley; the poetics of La(yogh)amon's "Brut", Arthur Wayne Glowka; "Rhythmical Alliteration" - Aelfric's prose and the origins of La(yogh)amon's metre, Stephen K. Brehe; the two manuscripts of La(yogh)amon's "Brut" - some readers in the margins, Beth Bryan; the Latin marginal glosses in the Caligula manuscript of La(yogh)amon's "Brut", Carole Weinberg; the implied audience of La(yogh)amon's "Brut", Rosamund Allen; reading the past in La(yogh)amon's "Brut", Lesley Johnson; Angles and Saxons in La(yogh)amon's "Brut" - a reassessment, Neil Wright; La(yogh)amon's ambivalence reconsidered, James Noble; space in the "Brut" or La(yogh)amon's vision of the world, Marie-Francoise Alamichel; paradigms of evil - gender and crime in La(yogh)amon's "Brut", Francoise H.M. Le Saux; La(yogh)amon's narrative innovations and Bakhtin's theories, Kelley M. Wickham-Crowley; two Breton analogues of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" - a model case for La(yogh)amon's relation to British storytelling, Herbert Pilch; La(yogh)amon as auctor, James I. McNelis III.
