Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England

Foreword: Homage to André Crépin; L.Carruthers Introduction: Palimpsests and 'Palimpsestuous' Reinscriptions; R.Chai-Elsholz PART I: PERMANENCE AND IMPERMANENCE OF WRITING ON THE PAGE  An Anglo-Saxon Palimpsest from Fleury: Orléans, Bibliothèque Municipale MS 342 (290); A.Papahagi Recovering Anglo-Saxon Erasures: Some Questions, Tools and Techniques; P.Stokes Some Psalter Glosses in Their Immediate Context; J.Roberts The Palimpsest and Old English Homiletic Composition; P.E.Szarmach 'Ic Beda'...'Cwæð Beda': Reinscribing Bede in the Old English Historia ecclesiastica gentis anglorum ; S.Rowley Vernacular Engravings in Late Medieval England; F.Bourgne PART II: IMPERMANENCE AND ACCUMULATION IN THE LITERARY IMAGINATION Rewriting Genres: Beowulf as Epic Romance; L. Carruthers   Palimpsestic Philomela: Reinscription in Chaucer's Legend of Philomela ; G.Aloni The Middle English Breton Lays and the Mists of Origin; C.Vial Enquiries into the Textual History of the Seventeenth-Century Sir Lambewell (British Library, Additional 27897); C.Stévanovitch Elucidations: Bringing to Light the Aesthetic Underwriting of the Matière de Bretagne in John Boorman's Excalibur ; J-M.Elsholz