From Arabye to Engelond : Medieval Studies in Honour of Mahmoud Manzalaoui.

Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Images of Europe and Europeans in Some Medieval Arabic Sources; The First Patriarchate of Gennadios II Scholarios as Reflected in a Pastoral Letter; Arabic and Hebrew auctoritates in the Works of Enrique de Villena; "Ad restringuendum coytum": How to Cool Lust; The Compulsions of Honour; Another Look at an Old 'Science': Chaucer's Pilgrims and Physiognomy; Voices of the Tabard: The Last Tales of the Canterbury Tales; Courtly Hagiomythography and Chaucer's Tripartite Genre Critique in the Legend of Good Women.

Coleridge's Sublime and Langland's Subject in the Pardon Scene of Piers Plowman"Whilom, as olde stories tellen us": The Discourse Marker whilom in Middle English; The Writings of Hilary of Poitiers in Medieval Britain from c. 700 to c. 1330; Ge mid wige ge mid wisdome: Alfred's Double-Edged Sword; The Oldest Folk Poetry? Medieval Woman's Song as "Popular" Lyric; The Pageant of the Sins; John Ruskin's Medievalism; Sub Rosa: Umberto Eco and the Medievalist Mystery Story; Bibliography of Works by Mahmoud Manzalaoui; List of Contributors.

This collection of essays explores the dialogue between Arabic and European cultures during the medieval period starting from the year 700. Using critical approaches the contributors examine a variety of thematic and cultural concerns.

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