Medieval English Studies
중세 영문학
The Journal of the Medieval and Early Modern English Studies Association of Korea

ISSN 1229-0394

Published once a year, at the end of the year, until 2001. Since 2001, published twice each year. The journal publishes papers by members of the Association on topics related to medieval (Old and Middle) English literature, in Korean and in English.

The name of the journal was changed in 2003 (Volume 11) to
Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 중세 르네상스 영문학



Cumulative Index (English)
NB A separate index contains the names of contributors and titles of papers in Korean.
1. Volumes 1-10 (this page can probably only be read correctly by a Netscape browser)
2. Volumes 11 -

1) page numbers.
2) Author (Family name first).
3) Title (Korean titles are translated into English, reproducing the translation of the title given in the abstract, if any).
4) Language of the paper.
5) Language of the abstract (if nothing is noted, there is no abstract).
6) A brief summary (for the Chaucer Bibliography) of Chaucer-related articles



Volume 1 (1993)

1-20
Kang, Kwan Soo.
The Warrior's Image in 'The Dream of the Rood.'
Korean.
English abstract.
Summary: Discusses the way the poem adapts the topos of the Germanic warrior-hero.

21-41
Teague, Anthony.
Romantic Love as Fiction and as Life.
English
Summary: Surveys the development of love from the troubadors and the 12th century romances, through the 'real-life' experiences represented by Dante, then Petrarch, as far as Chaucer's Troilus and Crisseyde

43-58
Lee, Sung-il.
Chaucer and Dreams: The Book of the Duchess.
Korean.
English abstract
Summary: The Book of the Duchess seen as "metapoetry",

59-75
Lim, Hye-Soon.
The Mirror Image on "The Friar's Tale and "The Summoner's Tale."
Korean.
English abstract.
Summary: Explores how the two tales, while being expressions of the mutual antagonism between the two pilgrims, each reflect the moral degeneracy of their tellers.

77-93
Kim, Jae-Whan.
Chaucer's View of Marriage: Centered on "the Franklin's Tale."
Korean.
English abstract.
Summary: Through the tale Chaucer tries to show that the vision of the idealistic marriage cannot be realized without dialectical processes between the present and the idealistic perspective.

95-112
Park, Young-Bae.
Linguistic Diversity in Chaucer's Language.
Korean.
English abstract.
Summary: The linguistic 'diversite' of 14th-century London English provides Chaucer with the means he needed for his literary work.

113-135
Lehr, John.
Thomas Hoccleve: Poet.
English.
Summary: The main interest of Hoccleve today lies in an exploration of his political concerns.

137-153
Mun, Hui-Kyong.
Sir John Mandeville's East: Image or Knowledge?
English.
Summary: Explores the limits of Mandeville's work, stressing his Eurocentrism.

155-159.
Teague, Anthony.
Some Recent Developments in Medieval Studies.
English.



Volume 2 (1994)

1-21
Shynne, Gwanghyun.
Allegory's Two Pulls: A Reading of St. Augustine's De Doctrina Christiana.
English
 

23-39
Lee, Duk-Su.
The Concept of Europa in the Carolingian Age.
Korean.

41-57
Kong, Sung-Uk.
Chaucer's The Legend of Good Women : A Self-Apology.
Korean.
English abstract.
Summary: Chaucer's self-apologetic and self-reflexive aspects as an artist are revealed by a comparison of the two Prologues of the Legend.

59-77
Kim, Jae-Whan.
The Parody on the Courtly Love: "the Knight's Tale" and "the Miller's Tale."
Korean.
English abstract.
Summary: The "Miller's Tale" could be read as a parody of the "Knight's Tale" and vice versa. The accomplishments of the one could be better understood when it is read as a foil of the other.

79-89
Kim, Son-suk.
Piers the Plowman.
Korean

91-123
Kang, Ji-Soo.
Formal Completeness and Temporality in Pearl.
English.

125-141
Kim, Myoung-ok.
The Mythical Structure of the Ending in the Arthurian Romances.
English.

143-164
Lee, Jong-suk.
History and Literature: the 'Historicity' of Shakespeare's History Plays.
Korean.



Volume 3

1-15
Lee, Insung.
Christian Sea Symbolism in The Seafarer: "stormas paer stanclifu beotan"; "sealtytha gelac".
English.

17-32
Kang, Ji-Soo.
The Concept of Boasting in Beowulf: The Problems of Interpreting Beot, Gilp, and their Compound Words.
English.

33-59
Lee, Hyun-Ju.
The Author's Contrary Views in The Owl and the Nightingale.
Korean.
English abstract.

61-85
Lim, Hye-Soon.
A Study on Chaucer's Use of Loan-Words.
Korean.
English abstract.

87-102
Kim, Hoyoung.
The Literary Context of The House of Fame and Chaucer's Via Negativa.
English.

103-125
Kim, Jung-Ai.
Piers Plowman: Women Characters,
English.

128-145
Kim, Myoung-ok.
Studies in Medieval Literary Theory.
Korean.
Summary: Relates The Canterbury Tales to various medieval concepts and criteria concerning poetic theory and literary criticism.

147-165
An, Sonjae.
Parodic Ambitions: Preludes to Faustus and Macbeth.
English.



Volume 4

1-39
Lee, Dong-ill.
Beowulf's Youth and Social Status.
English.

41-71
Kim, Chong-hui.
The formation and destruction of the myth of King Arthur: From the 'History of the Kings of Britain' to Chretien de Troyes.
Korean.

73-96
Lee, Yon-hui.
Chaucer's Characterization of Criseyde in Troilus and Criseyde.
Korean.
English abstract.
Summary: Criseyde is sometimes wrongly seen as a simple figure but rather she should be viewed as a complex and realistic representation, with both tragic and comic aspects.

97-136
Yoon, Minwoo.
Chaucer's Fabliaux: Fragment I of the Canterbury Tales.
Korean
Summary: Explores various readings of the fabliaux, applying criteria from Bakhtin and Lacan.
 

137-147
Lee, Insung.
The Symbolic Meaning of Sea in Chaucer's The Man of Law's Tale.
English.
Summary: In this Tale, Chaucer distinguishes between "water," "sea," and "salt sea," and in using the last term seems to follow Biblical conventions in which the "salt sea" is a demonized and deadening reality, essentially malignant.

149-173
Lim, Hye-Soon.
Gentil and Free in "the Franklin's Tale".
Korean.
English abstract.
Summary: The pilgrim Franklin shows concern with the theme of gentilesse in Prologue and Tale. The words 'free' and 'gentil' are almost cognate during the tale, but the term 'gentil' is higher. By using the word 'free' in the final question as to which of the 3 active characters was most 'free' the Franklin betrays a lack of understanding of his own tale.

175-189
An, Sonjae
Patterns of Fractured Discourse in Chaucer's Nun's Priest's Tale.
English.
Summary: Explores points at which the narrative coherence of NPT breaks down completely and has to begin in a quite new direction, obliging the narrator to backtrack and inviting readers to explore the limits of narrative form.

191-5
An, Sonjae.
Some Recent Publications and Other News.
English.



Volume 5 (1997)

1-20
Chung, In-ju.
Auchinleck MS. and St. Katherine.
English.

21-57
Lee, Dongchoon.
Chivalry in the Fourteenth Century as Reflected in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
English.

59-82
Kim, Jung-Ai.
Gower's Good Women:  Confessio Amantis.
Korean.
Summary: The study compares the treatment of the good women of Chaucer and those of Gower. Both writers fail to laud good women because of the preconceived frame of the poems as well as their male-oriented perspective.

83-105
Kaylor, Noel Harold, Jr.
The Influence of Boethius and Dante upon Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde.
English.
Summary: The rise and fall of Troilus's fortunes is based on the Boethian image of Fortuna's turning wheel but also reflects the movement of Dante's Commedia in the rise to bliss, then reverses that movement as Troilus loses Criseyde and returns back through a Purgatory before ending again in Hell.

107-144
Kim, Myoung-ok.
The Medieval Concepts of Poet, Narrator, and Reader Related to the Poet, Narrator, and Reader Found in Chaucer's Poetry.
Korean.
Summary: Contrasts Chaucer's use of multiple narratorial voices with the way other medieval writers write themselves and their readers into their texts.

145-170
Kang, Ki-Soo.
The (In)Completeness of the Cook's Tale.
English.
Summary: The incompleteness of the Cook's Tale is seen in the light of medieval theories of narrative structure and closure / conclusion. It relates to the moral inconclusiveness of the Reeve's Tale and seems almost deliberately to embody a final message on closure and meaning at the end of the First Fragment.

171-200
Ch'oi, Ye-jong.
Sermon and Wyclifism in the Wife of Bath.
Korean
Summary: Traces links between the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Wyclifism, concluding that the text shows that Chaucer was well aware of the deep significance of Wyclifism and sympathetic toward it.

201-213
Lee, Sung-Il.
On Robert Henryson's Testament of Crisseid.
English.
Summary: Compares Henryson's story with Chaucer's, stressing the superiority of Chaucer's and finding that Henryson by the time he had finished writing felt a strong dissatisfaction with his own work.

215-241
Yoon, Minwoo.
The Use of Northern Dialect and Middle Scots in the Scottish Literature.
English.

243-282
Lehr, John.
Hoccleve and the National Language.
English.

283-300
Lee, Jin-Ah.
The Primacy of the Virtue of Holiness in Spenser's Faerie Queene.
English.

Book Reviews



Volume 6 (1998)

1-20
Lee, Dong-Il
The Origin of English Poetry: Caedmon's Hymn
Korean
English abstract.

21-55
Chung, Inju
The Physiologus and "The Whale"
English
English abstract.

59-98
Kang, Ji-Soo
Homily and Narrative: Exempla as History in Cleanness
English
English & Korean abstracts

101-129
Kim, Myoung-ok
The Role of Women in Marie de France' s lais
Korean
English abstract.

131-161
Choi, Yejung
An Apology of Poetry: Chaucer's Poetics in The House of Fame
Korean
English abstract.

163-197
Park, Youngwon
Providence and the Planetary Gods in the Knight's Tale
English
English & Korean abstracts.

199-223
Lim, Hye-Soon
"Glosyng" in the Summoner's Tale
Korean
English abstract.

225-246
Na, Yong-jun
Lancelot in Malory's Tale of the Sankreal
English
English & Korean abstracts.



Volume 7 (1999)

1-18
Lee, Sung-Il
The Wife's Lament and Samiin'gok, a Classical Korean Poem: A Comparative Study on the Poet's Assuming Female Voices
English
English & Korean abstracts.

19-61
Lee, Dong-Ill
Wealhtheow's Verbal Tactics in Beowulf
English
English & Korean abstracts.

63-92
An, Sonjae
The Good, the Bad, and the Holy : Reading the Canterbury Tales
English
English & Korean abstracts.
Summary : Chaucer's use of 'worthy' and the many ways in which the Canterbury Tales play with questions of value lead to a reading of the entire work in which the (Second) Nun's Tale of St. Cecilia exemplifies the highest value in human living, that of Holiness.

93-123
Kim, Jung-Ai
The Monk's Tale: Chaucerian Tragedy
Korean
English & Korean abstracts
Summary : Although the Monk seems to suggest that the tragedies he tells can all be explained by the action of Fortune, there is no consistant concept of Fortune and the result is a failure.

125-147
Park, Yoon-Hee
The Wife of Bath's Taming of Romance
Korean
English & Korean abstracts
Summary : The Wife of Bath's Tale, sometimes felt by critics to betray Chaucer's latent feminism by its harmonious ending, should rather be read as a subversion of traditional male discourse.

149-175
Choi, Yejung
The Legend of Good Women: Reading the Author's 'entente'
Korean
English & Korean abstracts
Summary : If the God of Love and Alceste criticize Chaucer, it is as representatives of  a text community based on Augustinian hermeneutics; Chaucer undermines the legitimacy of their view of poetry, inscribing his own presence and intent in the poem.

177-197
Na, Yong-jun
"Love, That knetteth lawe of compaignie" in Troilus and Criseyde
English
Korean abstract
Summary: Traces Troilus's evolution toward an ever higher understanding of cosmic love.

199-221
Lee, Insung
The Comic Element in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Laughter
Korean
English & Korean abstracts

223-241
Kaylor, Noel Harold  Jr.
Editing John Bracegirdle's Consolatio Translation: Some Insights and Observations

243-265
Jang, Heran
Spenser's Astrophel and Clorinda
English
English & Korean abstracts

267-303
Yoon, Minwoo
Language and Desire of the Twelfth-Century Epic, Romance, and Lyric
Korean
English & Korean abstracts



Volume 8 (2000)

5-34
Lee, Dongill
A Study on Mathelian and  Verbs Introducing Direct Speeches
Korean
English & Korean abstracts

35-59
Lee, Sung-Il
The Theme of Mutability in Old English Poetry
English
English & Korean abstracts

61-76
An, Sonjae
So Many Tales Untold: Eloquent Silences in the Old English Canon
English
English & Korean abstracts

77-93
Inju Chung
Faith and Loyalty: Sir Gawain as a Medieval Man
English
English & Korean abstracts

95-114
Kaylor, Noel Harold
Holding the Center: Chaucer's Book of Troilus and Dante's Commedia
English
English abstract
Summary: Relates the structure of Troilus, where Troilus's happiness reaches its apex it the very center of the poem's line-count, to structures found in Dante's Commedia and to themes of fortune's changes from Boethius.

115-128
Stevick, Robert D.
The Medium of Middle English Lyrics
English
English abstract

129-157
Kim, Ho-Young
From the Medieval to the Early Modern: Modes of Ideological Conflict in Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book 7
Korean
English & Korean abstracts

159-179
Hong, Kyongjoo
"Googe Is Scrooge":  Barnaby Googe and Poetic Asceticism
English
English & Korean abstracts



Volume 9 No. 1 (June 2001)

5-29
Lee, Dongchoon
Dragon as Psychological Archetype in Beowulf
Korean
English & Korean abstracts

31-41
Lee, Sung-Il
Grendel's Mere: Freudian and Metapoetical Implications
English
English & Korean abstracts

43-66
Kim, Junhyun
Woman as locus amoenus
Korean
English & Korean abstracts

67-132
Yoon, Minwoo
A Translation of Dame Sirith into Korean
Korean
English & Korean abstracts

133-153
Kong, Sung-Uk
The Narrative Structure of The Parliament of Fowls
Korean
English & Korean abstracts

155-188
An, Sonjae
Toward a Medieval Archetectonics: Reading Wells Cathedral
English
English & Korean abstracts

189-209
Kim, Hoyoung
Britomartis' Heroic Love in Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book 3
English
English & Korean abstracts



Volume 9 No. 2 (December 2001)

5-27
Phillips, Philip Edward
Boethius's De Consolatione Philosophiae and the Lamentatio/Consolatio Tradition
English
English abstract

29-71
Kim, Jeong-Hee
Formation and Collapse of Arthurian Myth (II): The Case of Courtly Love
Korean
English and Korean abstracts

73-105
Lee, Yeon-Hee
The Duality of Fear of Troilus and Criseyde
Korean
English and Korean abstracts

107-129
Choi, Yejung
Divine Voice, Human Voice: Two Voices in The First and the Second Shepherds' Plays
Korean
English and Korean abstracts

131-153
Kang, Ji-Soo
The Significance of the Eucharist Scenes in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament
Korean
English and Korean abstracts



Volume 10 No. 1 (2002)

5-16
Nokes, Richard Scott
The Old English Charms and King Alfred's Court
English
English and Korean abstracts

17-54
Chang, Wook
St. Thomas Aquinas' Understanding of Man
Korean
English and Korean abstracts

55-71
Liliana Sikorska
Performing The Love Of God And The Struggle With The Devil: The "Theatricality" Of Medieval Mystical Culture
English
English abstract

73-107
Kang, Chung-Ryong.
Le Roman de la Rose and Chaucer's Translation
Korean
French and Korean abstracts (and English in online version)

109-138
Kim, Tai-Won .
"Measure is Treasure": Financial and Political Prudence in John Skelton's Magnificence
English
English and Korean abstracts



Volume 10 No. 2 (2002)

5-27
Phillips, Philip Edward
Lady Philosophy's Therapeutic Method: The "Gentler and "Stronger" Remedies in Boethius's De Consolatione Philosophiae.
English
English abstract

29-80
I, Deug-Su
Lioba - dilecta Bonifati. Eine Liebesgeschichte im 8. Jahrhundert
German
Korean abstract

81-116
Kim, Jaehyun
"Angelus et Christus" in the Five five-fold Division and Unification of the World and Nature in Eriugena and Maximus the Confessor
English
Korean abstract

117-130
Lee, Dongill
A Study on Geogod in Old English Poetry: Beowulf 535-538
English
Korean abstract

131-151
Choi, Ye-jong
Corpus Christi Cycle and the Politics of the Meaning of the "Body of Christ"
Korean
English abstract

153-168
An, Sonjae
Troilus and Criseyde: The Hidden Influence of Chaucer's Reading
English
Korean abstract

169-181
Lee, Jongsook
Gender and Translation in Early Modern England
English
Korean abstract

183-198
Jackson, John Morris and  Kaylor, Noel Harold  Jr.
The Early Education of Queen Elizabeth I and her later translation of Boethius's De Consolatione Philosophiae
English
English abstract



Volume 11 No. 1 (2003) Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 중세 르네상스 영문학
 

7-20
Lee, Insung
The Significance of the Terms for the Deity in Anglo-Saxon Gnomic Verses
Korean
English abstract

21-41
Kim, Jaehyun
Medieval Women Theologians
Korean
English abstract

43-69
Choi, Aerie
La Mort le Roi Artu: closure for the Arthurian world?
Korean
French abstract

71-91
Salisbury, Eve
Troubling Gender and Genre in The Trials & Joys of Marriage
English
English abstract

93-96
Lee, Jongsook
Commentary: Troubling  "Troubling Gender and Genre in The Trials and Joys of Marriage"”
English

97-115
Kim, Hyonjin
Orfeo's Stained Glass of Poetry: A Study of Sir Orfeo as a Meta-Poem
Korean
English abstract

117-130
Moon, Hi Kyung
"The Legend of False Men"?: Chaucer's Legend of Good Women Re-titled
English
Korean abstract

131-150
Kim, Kyung-Bum
The terms Novella and Novela: semantic transition and the formation of the genre
Korean
Spanish abstract

151-175
Choi, Sung Hee
My New Found Lande:: Body Politics and Imperialism in John Donne's Elegies
Korean
English abstract

179-196
Lee, Hyun Ju
Does the Writer of Warriors of God Really Describe the Crusades without Prejudice?
Korean
English abstract