Yee? Baw For Bokes. Essays on Medieval Manuscripts and Poetics, In Honor of Hoyt N. Duggan. Ed. Michael Calabrese & Stephen H. A. Shepherd

This is a fine and affectionate tribute to an eminent Langland scholar and evidently impressive teacher. It is clearly distinguished from the majority of customary Festschriften by its consistent focus on a fairly particularized area of Middle English studies: textual criticism and analysis of Piers Plowman and closely related texts, as lucidly outlined by the editors’ introduction. Consequently, the essays in this volume all discuss problems from a limited range of manuscripts and texts, yet with a thoroughness that speaks for the dedication of the true specialist.