Publisher's Synopsis
In his nearly half a century in the English Department of Purdue University, Shaun Hughes has had an incalculable impact on both his students and his colleagues, and this volume acknowledges the debt that generations of scholars in medieval studies owe to him. This festschrift highlights Dr. Hughes's decades of research in a variety of fields: Old English language and literature, Middle English language and literature, Old Norse language and literature, and Tolkien.