Heroes And Saints: Studies In Honour Of Katalin Halácsy

Heroes and Saints Heroes and Saints Studies in Honour of Katalin Halácsy Edited by Zsuzsanna Simonkay Andrea Nagy mondAt Budapest • 2015 The publication was supported by Pázmány Péter Catholic University KAP-1.8-14/007 Grant Copyright © The Authors, 2015 All rights reserved Editing copyright © Zsuzsanna Simonkay, Andrea Nagy 2015 Published by mondAt Nyomdaipari és Szolgáltató Kft. All rights reserved Cover design by Szalay Miklós (www.szalamiki.hu) Typography and setting by Zsuzsanna Simonkay Printed by mondAt Nyomdaipari és Szolgáltató Kft. ISBN 978-615-5569-03-6 DOI 10.14755/MTAKIK.2015.0001 Hwæt! be halgum and be hæleðum þas boc witena fela gewritene habbaþ, leofe Kati, lof þin to ræranne – freondscipes and lare mid lufe we þanciaþ. Table of Contents Acknowledgements11 13 Tabula Gratulatoria Preface15 Károly Pintér A Spring Break and the Next Twenty-Five Years 17 Tibor Tarcsay Vera Doctrina 21 Paul E. Szarmach The Life of Martin in Cambridge, Pembroke College 25 39 Joyce Hill The Selection of Saints’ Lives in Ælfric’s Catholic Homilies 61 Ágnes Kiricsi Laudatio 20 Paul Mommaers A Misunderstood Theme: God, the Unknowable 25 Matti Kilpiö Gildas’ De excidio Britanniae and Beowulf: With Special Reference to Beo 3069–75 47 Lilla Kopár Heroes on the Fringes of the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Corpus: Vernacular Memorial Inscriptions on Stone Sculpture 85 121 Monika Kirner-Ludwig No Heroes and Saints without Villains and Misbelievers: Onomasiological and Lexico-Semantic Considerations Regarding Old English Compounds that Put the VIKING into Words László Kristó English Place-Names: Unknown Heroes in the Story of Closed Syllable Shortening? 9 153 Anikó Daróczi The Coherence of Form and Content in Hadewijch: The Importance of Modality in Medieval Songs 163 Mátyás Bánhegyi Chaucer the Translator: A Medieval Forerunner of Modern Translation Theorists 203 Tamás Karáth Women Not to Preach?: Margery Kempe as an Unlicensed Preacher 229 Kinga Földváry Medieval Heroes, Shakespearean Villains – Modern Saints? 269 Boldizsár Fejérvári Chatterton’s Middle Ages: The Power Economics of the Chatterton vs. Walpole Affair 297 Zsuzsanna Simonkay False Brotherhood in Chaucer’s “The Knight’s Tale,” Part 2: Palamon and Arcite – False Friends Will Be Friends 187 Zsuzsanna Péri-Nagy Nicholas Love’s Mirrour: Some Directions towards Meditation and Contemplation 213 Benedek Péter Tóta Sir Gawain and Ted Hughes: Neither Heroes nor Saints yet Canonised: Contextualising Hughes’s Rendering of a Passage from Gawain 249 Géza Kállay The Villain as Tragic Hero: Macbeth and Emmanuel Levinas’ Metaphysical Reading of Shakespeare 283 Júlia Bácskai-Atkári Narratives of the Medieval in Walter Scott’s Ballads 323 10 Acknowledgements The editors are very much indebted to all who have been involved in the production of this volume. First and foremost, we would like to express our gratitude to Pázmány Péter Catholic University for their financial support, and especially to Károly Pintér, who whole-heartedly and strenuously supported our desire to honou