In Strange Countries: Middle English Literature and its Afterlife: Essays in Memory of J. J. Anderson

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These essays by senior scholars in medieval studies celebrate the career of J.J. Anderson, editor, critic, and co-founder of the Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture series, who taught in medieval studies at the University of Manchester for forty years. The essays are rooted in medieval literature but frequently range beyond the confines

David Matthews is Lecturer in Medieval Literature and Culture at the University of Manchester -- .

A collection of fine scholarly essays and also an intensely personal tribute to a much-admired scholar ... This excellent collection of essays both celebrates and demonstrates the network of scholarship that has given us a continually renewed understanding of medieval texts and their afterlife.' Graham Tulloch, Parergon - Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, volume 29.2 (2012). Readers of In Strange Countries will value it differently depending on their points of invested contact with individual chapters. The best of these reach an unimpeachable standard of scholarship and will influence specialist conversation in their fields. -- .