ACTA Volume #8

Introduction



1. The Primitive Version of Amadis de Gaula

Juan Bautista Avalle-Arce, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill



2. A Historical Revolution: Lorenzo Valla's Attack on Scholasticism

Ciriaco Morón Arroyo, Cornell University



3. Metaphor and Simile in Nicholas of Cusa's Idiota de Mente

Clyde Lee Miller, SUNY Stony Brook



4. Soul, Mind, and Intellect: Changing Paradigms in Later Medieval Thought

John Boler, SUNY Binghamton



5. Corn and Shrimps: Chaucer's Mockery of Religious Controversy

Ruth M. Ames, Queensborough Community College in the City University of New York



6. "Glosynge is a Glorious Thyng Certyn": A reconsideration of The Summoner's Tale

Martha H. Fleming, SUNY Albany



7. How to Achieve Discipline in the Classroom: William of Wheteley's Exposition of Pseudo-Boethius

Michael Johnson, State University College at Buffalo