Changes in words, changes in the world, and changes in minds:
transitions between states of speaking, writing, thinking, and being are
the subjects of the 14 essays in this collection, which celebrates and
was inspired by the work of Allen J. Frantzen. Ranging from individual
word-studies to investigations of artifacts and material culture, to
historical, philosophical and theological syntheses, the essays are
characterized by the same combination of multi-disciplinarity and
meticulous attention to detail as the scholarship of the honorand.
Transitional States shows how the interplay of tradition and
innovation, historical currents and individuality, loss, memory and
memorialization combine to produce both the culture of the Middle Ages
and our understanding of it.