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Cultural circulation : dialogues between Canada and the American South

Obrazy
Autor
Waldemar Zacharasiewicz, Christoph Irmscher (eds.)
Place of publication
Wien
Publication date
2013
Table of Contents

Acknowledgements . . 9
Introduction . . 11

OUVERTURE
My Love Affair with Shrevlin McCannon . . 23

I. ACADIANS AND CANADIANS
Et in Acadia Ego: Some Versions of the Pastoral in the Cajun Ethnic Revival . . 37
"Beyond the Bayou": Sociocultural Spaces in Kate Chopin's Louisiana Short Stories . . 51
Northeast by South: Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha and Antonine Maillet's Acadia . . 67

II. TRANSMIGRATIONS
Audubon Goes North . . 77
Stowe, the South, Canada, and Sadism . . 99
From Roots to Routes: The Dialogic Relation between Alex Haley's Roots (1976) and Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes (2007) . . 119
Flights to Canada: Jacob Lawrence, Ishmael Reed, and Lawrence Hill . . 135
The Bridge from Mississippi's Freedom Summer to Canada: Pearl Cleage's Bourbon at the Border . . 155
Metropolis and Hinterland: Faulkner and MacLeod . . 171

III. REWRITINGS AND INFLUENCES
Re-Writing the Grimms: Eudora Welty and Margaret Atwood . . 183
Hard Beauty. The Confluence of Eudora Welty and Alice Munro: Mississippi-South and Ontario-South Portraits of the 1930s . . 191
Parallel Spiritual Worlds: Alice Munro Country and the American South . . 231
Crisscrossing the Continent: From Black Mountain to Vancouver . . 255

IV. CIRCULATING GENRES AND THE EMERGENCE OF A TRANSCONTINENTAL POSTMODERN
Two Nations, One Genre? The Beginnings of the Modernist Short Story in the United States and Canada . . 277
Canada/American South in the Short Story: Flannery O'Connor - Jack Hodgins - Leon Rooke . . 291
Voice Not Place: Leon Rooke Makes a Success in Canada . . 307
I, Canadian: Elizabeth Spencer's Montreal . . 317
Michael Ondaatje's New Orleans in Coming Through Slaughter . . 333
Culinary Transgressions: Food Practices and Constructions of Female Identity in Gail Anderson-Dargatz's The Cure for Death by Lightning and Fannie Flagg's Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe . . 351

ENVOI
South by Northwest . . 367

List of Contributors . . 381
Index . . 387

Series
(Sitzungsberichte. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse ; Bd. 843)

Rot-Grün an der Macht : Deutschland 1998-2005

Obrazy
Autor
Edgar Wolfrum
Place of publication
München

Publisher

Publication date
2013
Table of Contents

Einführung . . 11

Erster Teil - Aufbruch ins 21. Jahrhundert

Panorama . . 19
1. «Aber jetzt ist eine andere Zeit» - Der Machtwechsel 1998 . . 26
2. Das Ende der Nachkriegszeit - Der Kosovo-Krieg . . 64
3. «Der gefährlichste Mann Europas»? - Lafontaines Scheitern als Weltökonom . . 110
4. Der «Dritte Weg» - Globale Strategie für ein neues Regieren? . . 138
5. Das «Projekt», die Gesellschaft zu erneuern-Zeit der Reformen . . 169
6. Umwelt, Klima, Atom - Die neuen Menschheitsfragen . . 214

Zweiter Teil - Im Bann des Terrors vom 11. September 2001

Panorama . . 273
1. 9/11 und Afghanistan - Vom Befreier zur Kriegspartei . . 279
2. Terrorangst und Sicherheit - Politische und mentale Folgen des Globalschocks . . 327
3. Rückkehr und Verwandlung Europas . . 373
4. Ein Friedenskanzler? - Schröders «Nein» zum Irak-Krieg 2002/03 . . 402
5. Das Ende einer Episode? - Wahlkampf und Jahrhunderthochwasser 2002 . . 457

Dritter Teil - Agieren aus der Defensive

Panorama . . 501
1. Wetterleuchten - Die Folgen von Börsencrash und PISA-Schock . . 506
2. Agenda 2010 - Die Umorientierung Deutschlands . . 528
3. Europäische Erinnerung - Die Berliner Republik und die deutsche Vergangenheit . . 584
4. Neue Vielfalt - Kunst, Kultur und Zeitgeist der rot-grünen Jahre . . 626
5. Rot-grüne Dämmerung - Niederlagen, Affären und Neuwahl 2005 . . 673

Epilog . . 704

Bemerkungen zur Methode und zu den Quellen - Dank . . 714
Anmerkungen . . 721
Bildnachweis . . 784
Quellen- und Literaturverzeichnis . . 785
Abkürzungsverzeichnis . . 833
Personenregister . . 835
Ortsregister . . 844

Neutron star crust

Obrazy
Autor
editors Carlos Bertulani and Jorge Piekarewicz
Place of publication
New York
Publication date
2012
Table of Contents

Preface . . vii

Introduction . . 1
Chapter 1: Neutron Star Crust and Molecular Dynamics Simulation . . 3
Chapter 2: Nuclear Pasta in Supernovae and Neutron Stars . . 23
Chapter 3: Terrestrial and Astrophysical Superfluidity: Cold Atoms and Neutron Matter . . 45
Chapter 4: Pairing Correlations and Thermodynamic Properties of Inner Crust Matter . . 65
Chapter 5: The Crust of Spinning-Down Neutron Stars . . 85
Chapter 6: Influence of the Nuclear Symmetry Energy on the Structure and Composition of the Outer Crust . . 103
Chapter 7: Equation of State for Proto-Neutron Star . . 129
Chapter 8: From Nuclei to Nuclear Pasta . . 151
Chapter 9: The Structure of the Neutron Star Crust within a Semi-microscopic Energy Density Functional Method . . 171
Chapter 10: The Inner Crust and Its Structure . . 193
Chapter 11: Neutron-star Crusts and Finite Nuclei . . 213
Chapter 12: The Nuclear Symmetry Energy, the Inner Crust and Global Neutron Star Modeling . . 235
Chapter 13: Neutron Starquakes and the Dynamic Crust . . 265
Chapter 14: Thermal and Transport Properties of the Neutron Star Inner Crust . . 281
Chapter 15: Quantum Description of the Low-Density Inner Crust: Finite Size Effects and Linear Response, Superfluidity, Vortices . . 309

Index . . 329

Series
(Space Science, Exploration and Policies)

Processes in microbial ecology

Obrazy
Autor
David L. Kirchmann
Place of publication
Oxford
Publication date
2012
Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction . . 1
What is a microbe? . . 1
Why study microbial ecology? . . 1
How do we study microbes in nature? . . 10
The three kingdoms of life: Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya . . 12
Functional groups of microbes . . 15
Sources of background information . . 16

Chapter 2: Elements, biochemical;, and structures of microbes . . 19
Elemental composition of microbes . . 19
Elemental ratios in biogeochemical studies . . 21
C.N and C:P ratios for various microbes . . 22
Biochemical composition of bacteria . . 23
Explaining elemental ratios . . 25
Architecture of a microbial cell . . 26
Components of microbial cells as biomarkers . . 29
Extracellular structures . . 31

Chapter 3: Physical-chemical environment of microbes . . 35
Water . . 35
Temperature . . 36
pH . . 39
Salt and osmotic balance . . 40
Oxygen and redox potential . . 41
Light . . 42
Pressure . . 43
The consequences of being small . . 44
Microbial life in natural aquatic habitats . . 46
Microbial life in soils . . 49
The biofilm environment . . 51

Chapter 4: Microbial primary production and phototrophy . . 55
Basics of primary production and photosynthesis . . 55
Primary production, gross production, and net production . . 61
Primary production by terrestrial higher plants and aquatic microbes . . 63
The spring bloom and controls of phytoplankton growth . . 64
Major groups of bloom-forming phytoplankton . . 66
After the bloom: picoplankton and nanoplankton . .71
Primary production by coccoid cyanobacteria . . 73
Photoheterotrophy in the oceans . . 74

Chapter 5: Degradation of organic material . . 79
Mineralization of organic material in various ecosystems . . 80
Who does most of the respiration on the planet? . . 81
Chemical characterization of detrital organic material . . 84
Detrital food webs . . 86
DOM and the microbial loop . . 88
Hydrolysis of high molecular weight organic compounds . . 91
Uptake of low molecular weight organic compounds: turnover versus reservoir size . . 93
Chemical composition and organic material degradation . . 94
Release of inorganic nutrients and its control . . 96
Photo-oxidation of organic material . . 96
Refractory organic matter . . 97

Chapter 6: Microbial growth, biomass production, and controls . . 99
Are bacteria alive or dead? . . 99
Microbial growth and biomass production . . 102
Measuring growth and biomass production in nature . . 104
Bacterial biomass production in aquatic environments . . 105
Growth rates of bacteria and fungi in soils . . 108
What sets biomass production and growth by microbes in nature? . . 109
Competition and chemical communication between organisms . . 115

Chapter 7: Predation and protists . . 117
Bacterivory and herbivory in aquatic habitats . . 118
Grazers of bacteria and fungi in soils and sediments . . 120
Grazing mechanism for protists . . 121
Factors affecting grazing . . 122
Defenses against grazing . . 128
Effect of grazing on prey growth . . 129
Grazing by ciliates and dinoflagellates . . 129
Fluxes from microbial food webs to higher trophic levels . . 132
Mixotrophic protists and endosymbiosis . . 133

Chapter 8: Ecology of viruses . . 137
What are viruses? . . 137
Viral replication . . 138
Temperate viruses in nature . . 139
Contact between host and virus at the molecular scale . . 140
The number of viruses in natural environments . . 141
Mortality of bacteria due to viruses . . 146
Contribution of viruses versus grazers to bacterial mortality . . 147
Viral production and turnover . . 148
Viral decay and loss . . 148
Viruses of phytoplankton . . 149
Viruses are not grazers . . 150
Genetic exchange mediated by viruses . . 152

Chapter 9: Community structure of microbes in natural environments . . 157
Taxonomy and phylogeny via genes . . 157
The species problem . . 159
Diversity of bacterial communities . . 160
The paradox of the plankton . . 162
Differences between cultivated and uncultivated microbes . . 163
Types of bacteria in soils, freshwaters, and the oceans . . 164
Archaea in non-extreme environment . . 166
Everything, everywhere? . . 167
What controls diversity levels and bacterial community structure? . . 168
Problems with 165 rRNA as a taxonomic and phyiogenetic tool . . 171
Community structure of protists and other eukaryotic microbes . . 173
Relevance of community structure to understanding processes . . 175

Chapter 10: Genomes and metagenomes of microbes and viruses . . 177
What are genomics and environmental genomics? . . 177
Turning genomic sequences into genomic information . . 178
Lessons from cultivated microbes . . 179
Genomes from uncultivated microbes: metagenomics . . 185
Metagenomics of a simple community in acid mine drainage . . 188
Useful compounds from metagenomics and activity screening . . 188
Metatranscriptomics and metaproteomics . . 189
Metagenomics of viruses .. 191

Chapter 11: Processes in anoxic environments . . 195
Introduction to anaerobic respiration . . 195
The order of electron acceptors . . 197
Oxidation of organic carbon by various electron acceptors . . 199
The anaerobic food chain . . 201
Sulfate reduction . . 204
Sulfur oxidation and the rest of the sulfur cycle . . 207
Methane and methanogenesis . . 210
Methanotrophy . . 212
Anaerobic eukaryotes . . 214

Chapter 12: The nitrogen cycle . . 217
Nitrogen fixation . . 218
Ammonium assimilation, regeneration, and fluxes . . 221
Ammonia oxidation, nitrate production, and nitrification . . 224
Nitrite oxidation and the second step in nitrification . . 229
Anaerobic ammonia oxidation . . 229
Dissimilatory nitrate reduction and denitrification . . 230
Denitrification versus anaerobic ammonium oxidation . . 232'
Sources and sinks of nitrous oxide . . 233
Balancing N loss and N2 fixation . . 234

Chapter 13: Introduction to geomicrobiology . . 237
Cell surface charge, metal sorption, and microbial attachment . . 237
Attachment of microbes to surfaces . . 241
Biomineralization by microbes . . 241
Manganese and iron-oxidizing bacteria . . 248
Weathering and mineral dissolution by microbes . . 251
Geomicrobiology of fossil fuels . . 253

Chapter 14: Symbiosis and microbes . . 257
Microbial residents of vertebrates . . 259
Microbial symbioses with insects . . 261
Symbiotic microbes in marine invertebrates . . 265
Microbe-plant symbioses . . 271
Concluding remarks . . 275

References . . 277
Index . . 303

Sakralmusik im Habsburgerreich 1570-1770

Obrazy
Autor
hrsg. von Tassilo Erhardt
Place of publication
Wien
Publication date
2013
Table of Contents

Johann Joseph Fax and the Musical Discourse of Servitude . . 11
Unbestimmbar, zweifelhaft, fehlzugeschrieben. Das Komponistenprofil von Johann Joseph Fux am Rande der Überlieferung . . 25
What is Really Old in the Stile Antico ofJohann Joseph Fux? . . 41
Gradus ad Lipsias: Zum Fux-Verstandnis in Backs Kreisen . . 53
Evaluating the Eighteenth-Century Legacy of the Fuxian Liturgical Style: The Solemn Idiom and Michael Haydn . . 69
Representing the Emperor in Sound: Sacred Music as Public Image for Ferdinand III at the End of the Thirty Years' War . . 77
The 'Virtue' Mass in Early Eighteenth-Century Austria: Beyond the Viennese Imperial Court . . 95
Pro laudatissima domo Austriaca: Music and Eucharistic Devotion at the Prague Court of Rudolf II (1576-1612) . . 109
Miserere mei Deus. Eine große Komposition des Kaisers, aber welches? . . 129
A Longevous Cycle of Introits from the Viennese Court . . 147
Giuseppe Tricarico als Kapellmeister und Komponist sakraler Musik am Hof der Habsburger in Wien 1657-1662. Sepolcri, Kirchenmusik und Aufführungen von Oratorien im Auftrag der Kaiserin Eleonora II . . 169
Quellen zu Marc' Antonio Zianis Kirchenmusik: Ein Überblick . . 191
Caveat lector! Sacred Music Ascribed to Gottlieb Muffat (1690-1770) . . 201
Der Hofviolinist Filippo Salviati (1706—1766) und seine Beiträge zur Wiener Gradualsonate . . 217
Music 'at the Holy Sepulchre' in Viennese Female Convents in the Early Eighteenth Century . . 231
First Vespers of the Titular Feast ofthe Saint Cäciliabruderschaft in the Domkirche of Saint Stephan in 1726 . . 253
Musical Contexts and the Habsburg Rehabilitation of Czech Saints . . 265
Die musikalische Wenzelstradition in den Jahren 1619-1740 . . 277
Kirchenmusik Wiener Komponisten in Mähren in der ersten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts . . 285
Instrumental Ensemble Music in Central European Churches: Questions of Function, Scoring, and Performance Practice . . 301
The Circulation of Sacred Music from Habsburg Naples (1707 - 1734) . . 317
Church Music in Antwerp during the Siecle de Malheur (c.1650-1750): Repertoire and Contexts . . 327

Register . . 339

Series
(Sitzungsberichte. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse ; Bd. 824. Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Musikforschung ; H. 29)

Children of Siberia : memoirs of Lithuanian exiles

Obrazy
Autor
[compiled by Irena Kurtinaitytė Aras and Vidmantas Zavadskis ; transl. by Živilė Gimbutas]
Place of publication
Kaunas

Publisher

Publication date
2013
Table of Contents

Translators Note . . 6
Foreword . . 7

HUNGRY AND HUMILIATED
Ausra Juskaite-Vilkiene . . 14
Algirdas Laskevicius . . 34
Marija Beleckaite-Rimkeviciene . . 52
Dainora Tamosiunaite-Urboniene . . 72
Romualdas Zubinas . . 100
Nijole Ambrazaityte . . 124
Ona Jakubauskaite-Linkuniene . . 138
Terese Cesnaite-Pauliene . . 150
Ona Bakaityte-Svilpiene . . 162
Arimantas Dumcius . . 182

CHILDREN ON ICE
Irena Milaknyte . . 194
Danute Adele Markeviciute-Bakeviciene . . 206
Antanas Abromaitis . . 226
Dalia Grinkeviciute . . 234

COMPILERS' REMINISCENCES
Irena Kurtinaityte . . 276
Vidmantas Zavadskis . . 286

Afterword . . 295
Index . . 319
Acknowledgements . . 326

Die böhmischen Länder in den Wiener Zeitschriften und Almanachen des Vormärz (1805-1848) : tschechische nationale Wiedergeburt, Kultur- und Landeskunde von Böhmen, Mähren und Schlesien, kulturelle Beziehungen zu Wien. T. 2

Obrazy
Autor
Gertraud Marinelli-König
Place of publication
Wien
Publication date
2013
Table of Contents

Vorwort . . VII

EINLEITUNG . . XIII
Ausgangslage . . XV
Methodik . . IXX
Quellenlage . . XXIII
Verzeichnis der ausgewerteten Zeitschriften . . XXV
Ergebnisse . . XXXII
Abkürzungen, Siglen . . LIV

SPRACHWISSENCHAFTEN . . 1
Bohemistik . . 3
Slavistik . . 39
Sorabistik . . 59
Germanistik . . 65
Hebraistik . . 73
Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaften . . 77

PHILOSOPHIE, ÄSTHETIK, RHETORIK . . 81

GESCHICHTE . . 93
Historiographie . . 95
  Quellen zur Geschichte der böhmischen Länder . . 97
  Allgemeine Geschichte der höhmischen Länder . . 124
  Spezielle Geschichte der böhmischen Länder . . 140
  Historiographie allgemein . . 156
Archäologie, Numismatik . . 161
Einzelthemen . . 169
  Regenten über die böhmischen Länder und ihre Zeit . . 169
  Das Großmährische Reich - Christianisierung . . 221
  Hussitenzeit . . 229
  Wallenstein und der Dreißigjährige Krieg . . 241
  Geschichte der Juden in den böhmischen Ländern . . 255
  Adelsgeschlechter. . 258
  Nachrichten über Staatsdiener . . 292
  Nachrichten über Privatpersonen . . 314
  In den Zeitschriften ausgetragene Polemiken . . 317

BILDUNGSINSTITUTIONEN . . 327
Unterrichtswesen . . 329
  Erziehungsschriften, Lehrbücher . . 329
  Schul- und Bildungsgeschichte . . 350
  Schulanstalten und Bildungsangehot . . 363
   Unterrichtswesen in Böhmen . . 363
   Unterrichtswesen in Mähren . . 444
   Unterrichtswesen in Schlesien . . 471
   Stiftungsplätze - Lehranstalten und Bildung allgemein . . 348
Bibliotheken, Museen, Sammlungen . . 493
  Bibliotheken . . 493
  Museen . . 502
  Sammlungen . . 511
Gelehrte . . 515
  Nachrichten über das Wirken von Gelehrten und von Männern des öffentlichen Lebens, deren Auszeichnungen und Ableben . . 515
  Nachrichten über Arzte . . 646
  Gelehrte Gesellschaften. Mitgliedschaften . . 683

Series
(Sitzungsberichte. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse ; Bd. 836. Veröffentlichungen zur Literaturwissenschaft ; Nr. 29)

Opening up Middle English manuscripts : literary and visual approaches

Obrazy
Autor
Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Maidie Hilmo, and Linda Olson
Place of publication
Ithaca
Publication date
2012
Table of Contents

List of Illustrations . . ix
Preface . . xv
Acknowledgments . . xix
Abbreviations . . xxi
Glossary of Key Manuscript Terminology . . xxiii
Note on Transcriptions and Transcription Symbols . . xxxi

THE FRONT PLATES: Transcriptions, Scripts, and Descriptive Analysis for Learning to Read Literary Texts on the Manuscript Page . . 1
HOW TO TRANSCRIBE MIDDLE ENGLISH . . 2
Bare Essentials 1: A Transcription Is Not an Edition . . 4

INTRODUCTION: The Order of the Plates and Scripts Most Commonly Found in Middle English Literary Texts . . 6
1. The Land of Cokaygne (London, British Library, MS Harley 913) . . 8
2. "Ihesu Swete" (Chicago, IL, Newberry Library, MS 31) . . 11
3. The Pricke of Conscience (Chicago, IL, Newberry Library, MS 32.9) . . 13
4. Chaucer's "Cook's Tale" (Hg) (Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 392D, Hengwrt MS 154) . . 16
5. Chaucer's "Cook's Tale" (Cp) (Oxford, Corpus Christ! College, MS 198) . . 16
6. Omnisptantacio (formerly 'Ihe Clergy May Not Hold Property) (San Marino, CA, Huntington Library, MS HM 503) . . 20
7. Hoccleve 's "Chanceon to Somer" and Envoy to Regiment des Princes (San Marino, CA, Huntington Library, MS HM 111) . . 23
8. Langland, Piers Plowman (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 104) . . 26
9. Sir Degrevant (Cambridge, University Library, MS Ff.i.6, Findern MS) . . 29
10. Wisdom (Washington, DC, Folger Shakespeare Library, MS V.a.354, Macro MS) . . 34

CHAPTER 1. Major Middle English Poets and Manuscript Studies, 1300-1450 . . 39
A Brief Overview of Topics Covered in This Chapter . . 39
I. BL MS Arundel 292, Archaism, and the Preservation of Alliterative Poetry c. 1300-0. 1450 . . 40
II. BL MS Harley 2253 and Principles of Compilatio, or: Why Read the Harley Lyrics in their Natural Habitat? . . 45
Bare Essentials 2: Anglicana Script and Profiling the Individual Scribe . . 48
III. Gawain and the Medieval Reader: The Importance of Manuscript Urctmatiom a Poem We Think We Know . . 56
Bare Essentials 3: Assessing Emendation in a Modem Edition . . 64
IV. The Rise of English Book Production in Ricardian London: Professional Scribes and Langland's Piers Plowman . . 65
Bare Essentials 4: Some Basic Concepts of Editing, Types of Written Standard Middle English, and Scribal Handling of Dialect . . 66
V. Some of the Earliest Attempts to Assemble the Canterbury Tales . . 79
VI. The Scribe Speaks at Last: Hoccleve as Scribe E . . 87

CHAPTER 2. Romancing the Book: Manuscripts for "Euerich Inglische" . . 95
Middle English Romances in the Auchinleck, Thornton, and Findern Manuscripts . . 98
I. Englishing Romance: The Auchinleck Manuscript . . 99
II. Romancing the Gentry Household: Robert Thornton's Homemade Family Library . . 116
Thornton Names in the Lincoln and London Manuscripts . . 126
III. Courting Romance in the Provinces: The Findern Manuscript . . 139

CHAPTER 3. The Power of Images in the Auchinleck, Vernon, Pearl, and Two Piers Plowman Manuscripts . . 153
I. Looking at Medieval Images . . 153
II. The Auchinleck Manuscript . . 158
III. The Vernon Manuscript . . 165
IV. The Pearl Manuscript . . 172
V. Two Piers Plowman Manuscripts and the Ushaw Prick of Conscience . . 189
VI. Conclusion . . 204

CHAPTER 4. Professional Readers at Work: Annotators, Editors, and Correctors in Middle English Literary Texts . . 207
I. Categories of Marginalia: The Annotating and Glossing of Chaucer . . 210
II. The Annotations in Manuscripts of Langland's Piers Plowman . . 223
III. Annotations and Corrections in the Book of Margery Kempe: Cruxes, Controversies, and Solutions . . 234
Appendix on the Red Ink Annotator and Previous Annotators in BL MS Add. 61823 . . 238
IV. The Quiet Connoisseur: The First Annotator(s) of Julian of Norwich's Showings in the Amherst Manuscript (London, British Library, MS Add. 37790) . . 239

CHAPTER 5. Illuminating Chaucer's Ciwterhury Tales: Portraits of the Author and Selected Pilgrim Authors . . 245
I. Introduction . . 245
II. The Decoration and Borders of the Hengwrt and Ellesmere Manuscripts . . 250
III. The Historiated Initial With an Author Portrait: A Further Development of the Hengwrt Tradition . . 254
IV. The Ellesmere Traditions: Illustrated Pilgrim Authors . . 267
V. Conclusion . . 287

CHAPTER 6. "Swete Cordyall" of "Lytterature": Some Middle English Manuscripts from the Cloister . . 291
I. Nourishing the Spirit of Religious Women: Vernacular Texts and Manuscripts . . 293
II. Monastic Manuscripts of Chaucer: Literary Excellence under Religious Rule . . 303
The Contents of London, British Library, MS Harley 7333 . . 307
III. Lots of Lydgate and a Little Hoccleve: Chaucer's Successors in Monastic Hands . . 314
IV. "Sadde Mete" for Mind and Soul: Contemplative and Visionary Texts in the Cloister . . 319
V. Taking it to the Streets: Middle English Drama from the Cloister . . 335

References Cited . . 355
Illustration Credits . . 373
Index of Manuscripts and Incunabula . . 375
General Index . . 379

Series
(Cornell Paperbacks)