The yearbook of Langland studies

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The yearbook of Langland studies

editors, John A. Alford, M. Teresa Tavormina

Colleagues Press, c1987-

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v. 1 : 1987 -- v. 2 : 1988 -- v. 3 : 1989 -- v. 4 : 1990 -- v. 5 : 1991- v. 6 : 1992 -- v. 7 : 1993-- v. 8 : 1994 -- v. 9 : 1995 -- v. 11 : 1997 -- v. 12 : 1998 -- v. 13 : 1999 -- v. 14 : 2000 -- v. 15 : 2001 -- v. 16 : 2002 -- v. 17 : 2003 -- v. 18 : 2004 -- v. 19 : 2005 -- 20 : 2006 -- 21 : 2007 -- 22 : 2008 -- 23 : 2009 -- v. 24 : 2010 -- v. 25 : 2011 -- v. 26 : 2012 -- v. 27 2013 -- v. 28 : 2014 -- v. 29 : 2015 -- v. 30 : 2016 -- v. 31 : 2017 -- v. 32 : 2018 -- v. 33 : 2019

v. 8- : editors, John A. Alford, James Simpson

v. 11.12 : editors, John A. Alford, Andrew Galloway

Vols. 13-17: editor, Andrew Galloway

Vols. 18-: editors, Andrew Cole, Fiona Somerset, Lawrence Warner

Vol. 26: edited by Fiona Somerset and Lawrence Warner

Vol. 27-: edited by Rebecca Davis and Emily Steiner

Vol. 31-33: edited by Alastair Bennett, Katharine Breen, and Eric Weiskott

Publisher varies: v.12: Asheville, N.C. : Pegasus Press; 14-19: Kalamazoo, Mich. : Medieval Institute Publications; 20-: Turnhout : Brepols

Includes index

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Volume

v. 1 ISBN 9780937191057

Description

Beginning in 1987, the yearbook was the preeminent venue for scholarship on "Piers Plowman"; on related poems in the tradition of didactic alliterative verse and on the historical, religious, and intellectual contexts in which such poems were produced in late medieval England. Each volume contains essays, reviews and an annotated bibliography.

Table of Contents

Editor’s Foreword Abbreviations ARTICLES The Subject of Piers Plowman by David Lawton The Passion of Sein Averoys [B.13.91]: “Deuynyng” and Divinity in the Banquet Scene by Anne Middleton Notes toward a Theory of Langland’s Meter by Hoyt N. Duggan Langland’s and Chaucer’s Prologues by Helen Cooper Spirituality and Economics in Passus 1 – 7 of the B Text by James Simpson NOTES Seth the “Seeder” in Piers Plowman C.10.249 by Thomas D. Hill Piers Plowman B. 13.331 (330): Some “Shrewed” Observations by Lister M. Matheson Title and Auaunced in Piers Plowman B.11.290 by Carter Revard Samuel Pegge, Thomas Holt White, and Piers Plowman by Arthur Sherbo “Speche þat spire is of grace”: A Note on Piers Plowman B.9.104 by R.A. Shoaf REVIEWS John M. Bowers, The Crisis of Will in Piers plowman by Robert Adams G. H. V. Bunt, ed., William of Palerne: An Alliterative Romance by Joanne A. Charbonneau
Volume

v. 2 ISBN 9780937191088

Description

Beginning in 1987, the yearbook was the preeminent venue for scholarship on "Piers Plowman"; on related poems in the tradition of didactic alliterative verse and on the historical, religious, and intellectual contexts in which such poems were produced in late medieval England. Each volume contains essays, reviews and an annotated bibliography.

Table of Contents

  • Abbreviations ARTICLES Langland’s Plowman and the Recreation of the Fourteenth-Century Religious Metaphor by Elizabeth D. Kirk Piers Plowman and the books of Wisdom by Mary Clemente Davlin, O.P. Langland and FitzRalph: Two Solutions to the Mendicant Problem by T. P. Dolan Middle English meter and Its Theoretical Implications by Thomas Cable Piers Plowman, the Wycliffites, and Pierce the Plowman’s Creed by Christina von Nolcken The Poetic Art of Death and Life by Susanna Fein NOTES Langland’s Use of the Term Ex vi transicionis by Cynthia Renée Bland The Abbess’s ABC by Josephine Koster Tarvers REVIEW ARTICLE Wyclif in Our Times: The Wyclif Sexcentenary, 1984 by Christina von Nolcken REVIEWS J. A. W. Bennett, Middle English Literature by A. C. Spearing Thomas J. Heffernan, ed., The Popular Literature of Medieval England by Stephen Knight Francis X. Newman, ed., Social Unrest in the Late Middle Ages by Judith M. Bennett A. V. C. Schmidt, The Clerkly Maker: Langland’s Poetic Art by Hoyt N. Duggan Penn R. Szittya, The Antifraternal Tradition in Medieval Literature by Katherine Walsh NOTICES John A. Alford, ed., A Companion to Piers Plowman
  • John A. Alford, Piers Plowman: A Glossary of Legal Diction
  • Angus McIntosh, M. L. Samuels, and Michael Benskin. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English
  • The Vernon Manuscript. A Facsimile of Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Eng. Poet a. 1. ANNUAL BIBLIOGRAPHY for 1987 by Vincent DiMarco Index
Volume

v. 5 ISBN 9780937191439

Description

The Yearbook of Langland Studies publishes work of specialinterest to students of Piers Plowmanand other related poems inthe alliterative tradition. Its focus is literary but studies of thepertinent social, religiousand intellectual background are also included. Contributors: ROBINSON, ADAMS, BIGGS, COOPER, GALLACHER, HILL, JOHNSON, MOREY, RUFFING, ST-JACQUES, SCHLESS, KOCHANSKE STOCK, TWOMEY, VAUGHAN. Reviews.

Table of Contents

  • Abbreviations ESSAYS Robert E. Kaske by Fred C. Robinson Editing and the Limitations of the Durior Lectio by Robert Adams “For God Is After an Hand”: Piers Plowman B.17.138-205 by Frederick M. Biggs Gender and Personification in Piers Plowman by Helen Cooper Imagination, Prudence, and the Sensus Communis by Patrick J. Gallacher Universal Salvation and Its Literary Context in Piers Plowman B.18 by Thomas D. Hill “Persen with a Pater-Noster Paradys Oþer Hevene”: Piers Plowman C.11.296-98a by David F. Johnson The Fall in Particulate by James H. Morey The Crucifixion Drink in Piers Plowman B.18 and C.20 by John Ruffing Langland’s Christus Medicus Image and the Structure of Piers Plowman by Raymond StJacques The Backgrounds of Allegory: Langland and Dante by Howard H. Schless Parable, Allegory, History, and Piers Plowman by Lorraine Kochanske Stock Christ’s Leap and Mary’s Clean Catch in Piers Plowman B.12.136-44a and C.14.81-88a by Michael W. Twomey ‘Til I Gan Awake’: The Conversion of Dreamer in Narrator in Piers Plowman B by Míceál F. Vaughan REVIEWS E. Talbot Donaldson, trans., Piers Plowman: An Alliterative Verse Translation by Ruth M. Ames Joseph M. P. Donatelli, ed., Death and Liffe
  • Stephanie Trigg, ed., Wynnere and Wastoure by A. S. G. Edwards Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Reformist Apocalypticism and Piers plowman by Barbara Newman Derek Pearsall, An Annotated Critical Bibliography of Langland by Vincent DiMarco Cindy L. Vitto, The Virtuous Pagan in Middle English Literature by E. Gordon Whatley ANNUAL BIBILIOGRAPHY FOR 1990 by Vincent DiMarco INDEX
Volume

v. 6 ISBN 9780937191484

Description

The Yearbook of Langland Studiespublishes work of specialinterest to students of `Piers Plowman' and other related poems inthe alliterative tradition. Its focus is literary but studies of thepertinent social, religious andintellectual background are also included. In this volume: an annotated bibliography of the year's work in the field, with articles on the formation of the Wycliffite Langland, MS Bodley and the dissemination of Piers PlowmanImaginatif and the Sensus Communis, and Piers Plowman and St Erkenwald and the rule of exceptional salvation. Contributors: JOHN BOWERS, RALPH HANNA III, ANDREW GALLOWAY, PATRICK GALLACHER, FRANK GRADY, A. S. G. EDWARDS, VINCENT DiMARCO.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations ESSAYS Piers Plowman and the Police: Notes Toward a History of the Wycliffite Langland by John. M. Bowers Imaginatif and the Sensus Communis by Patrick J. Gallacher Piers Plowman and the Chools by Andrew Galloway Contextualizing The Siege of Jerusalem by Ralph Hanna III Godwin on Langland by Vincent DiMarco NOTES The Edified Christian: Piers Plowman B.1.90 by Thomas D. Hill Piers Plowman in the Seventeenth Century: Gerard Langbaine’s Notes by A. S. G. Edwards REVIEWS F. R. H. Du Boulay, The England of Piers Plowman by Lawrence M. Clopper Susan K. Hagen, Allegorical Remembrances: A Study of the Pilgrimage of the Life of Man as a Medieval Treatise by Linda Ehrsam Voigts James Simpson, Piers Plowman: An Introduction to the B – Text by Steven Justice Theodore L. Steinberg, Piers Plowman and Prophecy: An Approach to the C – Text by Richard K. Emmerson ANNUAL BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR 1991 by Vincent DiMarco Index
Volume

v. 7 ISBN 9780937191569

Description

The annual volume of work devoted to Langland and Piers Plowman includes essays on the manuscripts of Piers Plowman, Piers Plowmanand prophecy, and Langland and the tradition of spiritual growth; also includedis a line-number index to the Athlone edition of Piers Plowman. Notes focus on a penitential motif and on romance convention. A bibliography of 1992 publications and reviews of recent publications complete the volume. Contributors: RALPH HANNA III, RICHARDK. EMMERSON, STEPHEN MANNING, PETER BARNEY, GEORGE KANE, M. JANE TOSWELL, NICOLE CLIFTON

Table of Contents

Abbreviations ESSAYS Studies in the Manuscripts of Piers Plowman by Ralph Hanna III “Or Yernen to Rede Redels?”: Piers Plowman and Prophecy by Richard K. Emmerson Langland and the Tradition of Spiritual Growth by Stephen Manning Line-Number Index to the Athlone Edition of Piers Plowman by Peter Barney NOTES Of Dogs, Cawdels, and Contrition: A Penitential Motif in Piers Plowman by M. Jane Toswell The Romance Convention of the Disguised Duel and the Climax of Piers Plowman by Nicole Clifton REVIEW ARTICLE A New Translation of the B Text of Piers Plowman [by A. V. C. Schmidt] by George Kane REVIEWS Thomas Cable, The English Alliterative Tradition by Joseph M. P. Donatelli Barbara Hanawalt, ed., Chaucer’s England: Literature in Historical Context by Diane Andrews Henningfeld Britton J. Harwood, Piers Plowman and the Problem of Belief by Stephen A. Barney Pamela Raabe, Imitating God: The Allegory of Faith in Piers Plowman B by Joseph S. Wittig NOTICES John A. Alford, Piers Plowman: A Guide to the Quotations Piers Plowman: A Facsimile of Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Douce 104. Introduction by Derek Pearsall, with catalogue of illustrations by Kathleen Scott ANNUAL BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR 1992 by Vincent DiMarco Index
Volume

v. 9 ISBN 9780937191620

Description

This volume completes the publication of the papers presented at the First International Langland Conference held at Cambridge in 1993, containing the discussion papers together with the responses (the plenary addresses were included in Yearbookof Langland Studies 8). Also of particular interest is a new `forum' section answering previous criticism, making for an exceptionally lively issue which conveys the vitality of current debates in Piers Plowmanstudies. Reviews of recent related publications and a bibliography are also included. JOHN A. ALFORD teaches at the Department of English, Michigan State University; JAMES A. SIMPSON is at Girton College, Cambridge. Contributors: JOHN A. ALFORD, RICHARD BARNES, HELEN BARR, JOHN BOWERS, MARY CARRUTHERS, WENDY SCASE, LAWRENCE M. CLOPPER, SAMUEL A. OVERSTREET, JUDITH H. ANDERSON, MIRI RUBIN, PENN R. SZITTYA, CHRISTOPHER DYER, TIM WILLIAM MACHAN, WINTHROP WETHERBEE, JOSEPH S. WITTIG, RALPH HANNA III, DINAH HAZELL, N.F. BLAKE, SIEGFRIED WENZEL, ANNE HUDSON, VINCENT DIMARCO

Table of Contents

Foreword Abbreviations PAPERS FROM THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL LANGLAND CONFERENCE Langland’s Learning by John Alford Response by Stephen A. Barney Response by Andrew Galloway Langland’s Stance and Style by Richard Barnes Response by Mary Clemente Davlin, O. P. Response by M. E. J. Hughes Piers Plowman and the Poetic Tradition by Helen Barr Response by Ronald Waldron Response by Joseph Wittig Piers Plowman’s William Langland: Editing the Text, Writing the Author’s Life by John M. Bowers Response by Charlotte Brewer Response by Traugott Lawler Imaginatif, Memoria, and “The Need for Critical Theory” in Piers Plowman Studies by Mary Carruthers Response by Jeremy Tambling Response by Stephanie Trigg Writing and the Plowman: Language and Literacy by Wendy Scase Response by Lawrence M. Clopper Response by Gerald Morgan FORUM A Response to Robert Adams, “Langland’s Ordinatio” by Lawrence M. Clopper A Response to D. Vance Smith, “The Labors of Reward” by Samuel A. Overstreet REVIEWS Leslie-Anne Crowley, The Quest for Holiness: Spenser’s Debt to Langland by Judith H. Anderson Eamon Duffy, The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England 1400 – 1580 buy Miri Rubin Richard K. Emmerson and Ronald B. Herzman, The Apocalyptic Imagination in Medieval Literature by Penn R. Szittya Stephen Justice, Writing and Rebellion: England in 1381 by Christopher Dyer A. J. Minnis, ed., Late-Medieval Religious Texts and Their Transmission: Essays in Honour of A. I. Doyle by Tim William Machan Richard Newhauser, The Treatise on Vices and Virtues in Latin and the Vernacular by Winthrop Wetherbee James J. Paxson, The Poetics of Personification by Joseph S. Wittig Piers Plowman: A Facsimile of the Z – Text in Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Bodley 851. Introduction by Charlotte Brewer and A. G. Rigg by Ralph Hanna III Werner Rösener, Peasants in the Middle Ages by Dinah Hazell Gillian Rudd, Managing Language in Piers Plowman by N. F. Blake H. Leith Spencer, English Preaching in the Late Middle Ages by Siegfried Wenzel Siegfried Wenzel, Macaronic Sermons: Bilingualism and Preaching in Late-Medieval England by Anne Hudson ANNUAL BIBLIOGARAPHY by Vincent DiMarco Index
Volume

v. 14 ISBN 9781580440271

Description

Beginning in 1987, the yearbook was the preeminent venue for scholarship on "Piers Plowman"; on related poems in the tradition of didactic alliterative verse and on the historical, religious, and intellectual contexts in which such poems were produced in late medieval England. Each volume contains essays, reviews and an annotated bibliography.

Table of Contents

C. David Benson, "What then does Langland Mean? Authorial and Textual Voices in Piers Plowman" Edwin D. Craun: "'Ye, by Peter and by Poul!': Lewte and the Practice of Fraternal Correction" Response by David C. Fowler Response by Lawrence M. Clopper Lawrence M. Clopper, "Langland and Allegory: A Proposition" Response by Ann W. Astell Sick of Allegory: A Response by James J. Paxson Alan J. Fletcher, "The Essential (Ephemeral) William Langland: Textual Revision as Ethical Process in Piers Plowman" "Plowing Parallel Furrows? The Textual Cultures of Piers and Preaching": A Response by Wendy Scase "The Author, the Dreamer, his Wife, and their Poet: Thoughts on an Essential-Ephemeral Langland": A Response by Judith Dale Anna Baldwin, "Patient Politics in Piers Plowman" Response by Fiona Somerset Andrew Galloway, "Piers Plowman and the Subject of the Law" Response by David Lawton Response by Louise M. Bishop Anne M. Scott, "'Nevere noon so nedy ne poverer deide': Piers Plowman and the Value of Poverty" Response by Bruce W. Hozeski Response by Joan Baker Joseph S. Wittig, "'Culture Wars' and the Persona in Piers Plowman" "Culture Wars? All's Not Quiet on the Langland Front": A Response by Gregory J. Wilsbacher Thomas D. Hill, "'Dumb David': Silence and Zeal in Lady Church's Speech, Piers Plowman C.2.30-40" Thomas D. Hill, " The Problem of Synecdochic Flesh: Piers Plowman B.9.49-50" REVIEWS Thorlac Turville-Petre and Hoyt Duggan, eds., The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive, Vol. 2: Cambridge, Trinity College, MS. B.15.17 (W) (John T. Sebastian) David Aers, Faith, Ethics and Church: Writing in England, 1360-1409 (Denise N. Baker) Susanna Fein, ed., Studies in the Harley Manuscript: The Scribes, Contents and Social Contexts of British Library MS. Harley 2253 (Christopher Cannon) Bonnie Millar, The 'Siege of Jerusalem' in its Physical, Literary and Historical Contexts (David Lawton) John Scattergood, The Lost Tradition: Essays on Middle English Alliterative Poetry (Maura B. Nolan) Andrew Cole, "Annual Bibliography, 2000"
Volume

v. 16 ISBN 9781580440776

Description

Beginning in 1987, the yearbook was the preeminent venue for scholarship on "Piers Plowman"; on related poems in the tradition of didactic alliterative verse and on the historical, religious, and intellectual contexts in which such poems were produced in late medieval England. Each volume contains essays, reviews and an annotated bibliography.

Table of Contents

Lawrence Warner, "The Ur-B Piers Plowman and the Earliest Production of C and B" Thorlac Turville-Petre, "Putting It Right: The Corrections of Huntington Library MS. Hm. 128 and BL Additional MS. 35287" Thomas D. Hill, "Green and Filial Love: Two Notes on the Russell-Kane C Text: C.8.215 And C.17.48" Traugott Lawler, "The Secular Clergy in Piers Plowman", Miceal F. Vaughan, "Response" Margaret Kim, "Hunger, Need, and the Politics of Poverty in Piers Plowman" Ralph Hanna, "Two New (?) Lost Piers Manuscripts(?)" REVIEWS Mary Clemente Davlin, O.P., The Place of God in 'Piers Plowman' and Medieval Art (Jill Mann) Joseph S. Wittig, Piers Plowman: Concordance (J. A. Burrow) D. Vance Smith, The Book of the Incipit: Beginnings in the Fourteenth Century (Christine Chism) Andrew Cole, "Annual Bibliography, 2005"
Volume

v. 17 ISBN 9781580440837

Description

Beginning in 1987, the yearbook was the preeminent venue for scholarship on "Piers Plowman"; on related poems in the tradition of didactic alliterative verse and on the historical, religious, and intellectual contexts in which such poems were produced in late medieval England. Each volume contains essays, reviews and an annotated bibliography.

Table of Contents

Andrew Cole, "Introduction: Langland and Lollardy: The Form of the Matter" Derek Pearsall, "Langland and Lollardy: From B to C" Andrew Cole, "William Langland's Lollardy" David Aers, "John Wyclif: Poverty and the Poor" Fiona Somerset, "Expanding the Langlandian Canon: Radical Latin and the Stylistics of Reform" Anne Hudson, "Langland and Lollardy?" Lawrence Warner, "Becket and the Hopping Bishops" Matthew Giancarlo, "Piers Plowman, Parliament, and the Public Voice" Kathleen E. Kennedy, "Retaining a Court of Chancery in Piers Plowman" J. A. Burrow, "Wasting Time, Wasting Words in Piers Plowman B and C" FORUM Traugott Lawler, "The Secular Clergy (again): A Brief Rejoinder to Miceal Vaughan's Response" REVIEWS Christina von Nolcken, Joseph S. Wittig, Stephen A. Barney, Ralph Hanna ANNUAL BIBLIOGRAPHY Kalpen Trivedi
Volume

v. 18 ISBN 9781580440950

Description

Beginning in 1987, the yearbook was the preeminent venue for scholarship on "Piers Plowman"; on related poems in the tradition of didactic alliterative verse and on the historical, religious, and intellectual contexts in which such poems were produced in late medieval England. Each volume contains essays, reviews and an annotated bibliography.

Table of Contents

Jill Mann, The Nature of Need Revisited A. V. C. Schmidt,Ars or Scientia? Reflections on Editing Piers Plowman George Shuffelton, Piers Plowman and the Case of the Missing Book Susan E. Deskis and Thomas D. Hill, The longe man ys seld wys: Proverbial Characterization and Langlands Long Will Frank Grady, Contextualizing Alexander and Dindimus Noriko Inoue, A New Theory of Alliterative A-Verses Simon Horobin, The Dialect and Authorship of Richard the Redeless and Mum and the Sothsegger Reviews Helen Barr, Socioliterary Practice in Late Medieval England. (Ethan Knapp) J. A. Burrow, Gestures and Looks in Medieval Narrative. (Helen Cooper) Dee Dyas, Pilgrimage in Medieval English Literature, 700-1500. (Ad Putter) Elizabeth Fowler, Literary Character: The Human Figure in Early English Writing. (Maura Nolan) William Elford Rogers, Interpretation in Piers Plowman. (James J. Paxson) James Simpson, Reform and Cultural Revolution. The Oxford English Literary History. Volume 2. 1350-1547. (Larry Scanlon) D. Vance Smith, Arts of Possession: The Middle English Household Imaginary. (Matthew Goldie) Fiona Somerset, Jill C. Havens, and Derrick G. Pitard, eds., Lollards and their Influence in Late Medieval England. (Katherine C. Little) Emily Steiner, Documentary Culture and the Making of Medieval English Literature. (Chris Baswell) Kalpen Trivedi, "Annual Bibliography 2003"
Volume

v. 11 ISBN 9781889818139

Description

From 1987, the yearbook was the preeminent venue for scholarship on "Piers Plowman"; on related poems in the tradition of didactic alliterative verse, and on the historical, religious and intellectual contexts in which such poems were produced in late medieval England. Each volume contains essays, reviews and an annotated bibliography.

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C. David Benson, Piers Plowman and Parish Wall Paintings Roy J. Pearcy, Langland's Fair Field Wendy Scase, First to reckon Richard: John But's Piers Plowman and the Politics of Allegiance Edward Jones, Langland and Hermits Richard Firth Green, Friar William Appleton and the Date of Langland's B Text Sean Taylor, The Lost Revision of Piers Plowman B Carl Grindley, A New Fragment of the Piers Plowman C Text? Bryan P. Davis, The Rationale for a Copy of a Text: Constructing the Exemplar for British Library Additional MS. 10574 Tadahiro Ikegami, A Short History of Langland Studies in Japan Ruth Nisse, Reversing Discipline: The Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge, Lollard Exegesis, and the Failure of Representation FORUM D. Vance Smith, Samuel Overstreet's Response: Ad Objectiones REVIEWS David Aers and Lynn Staley, The Powers of the Holy: Religion, Politics, and Gender in Late Medieval English Culture (Denise N. Baker) Helen Barr, Signes and Sothe: Language in the Piers Plowman Tradition (Britton J. Harwood) Charlotte Brewer, Editing Piers Plowman: The Evolution of the Text (Sean Taylor) Edwin B. Dewindt, The Salt of Common Life. Individuality and Choice in the Medieval Town, Countryside, and Church. Essays Presented to H. Ambrose Rafti (Christopher Dyer) Michael P. Kuczynski, Prophetic Song: The Psalms as Moral Discourse in Late Medieval England (David C. Fowler) Richard G. Newhauser, and John A. Alford, ed., Literature and Religion in the Later Middle Ages: Philological Studies in Honor of Siegfried Wenzel (James Simpson) Sean Taylor, Annual Bibliography, 1996
Volume

v. 12 ISBN 9781889818191

Description

Beginning in 1987, the yearbook was the preeminent venue for scholarship on "Piers Plowman"; on related poems in the tradition of didactic alliterative verse and on the historical, religious, and intellectual contexts in which such poems were produced in late medieval England. Each volume contains essays, reviews and an annotated bibliography.

Table of Contents

Andrew Galloway, Introduction to Special Section: Gender and Piers Plowman Stephanie Trigg, The Traffic in Medieval Women: Alice Perrers, Feminist Criticism, and Piers Plowman Joan Baker and Susan Signe Morrison, The Luxury of Gender: Piers Plowman and The Merchant's Tale James J. Paxson, Gender Personified, Personification Gendered, and the Body Figuralized in Piers Plowman Louise Bishop, Dame Study and Women's Literacy Andrew Galloway, Intellectual Pregnancy, Metaphysical Femininity, and the Social Doctrine of the Trinity in Piers Plowman Ralph Hanna, Reading Prophecy / Reading Piers Peter Barney, Line-Number Index to the Athlone Edition of Piers Plowman: The C Version REVIEW ESSAY Ralph Hanna, A New Edition of the C Version (review of George Russell and George Kane, eds., Piers Plowman: The C Version) REVIEWS James Dean, The World Grown Old in Medieval Literature (Miceal F. Vaughan) George Economou, trans., William Langlands Piers Plowman: The C Version (Dick Barnes) Anne Hudson and Pamela Gradon, eds., English Wycliffite Sermons , Volumes 4 and 5 (Siegfried Wenzel) Ralph Hanna, Pursuing History: ME MSS and Their Texts (Charlotte Brewer) Steven Justice and Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, eds., Written Work: Langland, Labor, and Authorship (David Aers) Gordon Teskey, Allegory and Violence (Seth Lerer) Joseph Wittig, William Langland Revisited (Anna P. Baldwin) Sean Taylor, Annual Bibliography"
Volume

v. 13 ISBN 9781889818252

Description

Beginning in 1987, the yearbook was the preeminent venue for scholarship on "Piers Plowman"; on related poems in the tradition of didactic alliterative verse and on the historical, religious, and intellectual contexts in which such poems were produced in late medieval England. Each volume contains essays, reviews and an annotated bibliography.

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Andrew Galloway, " Foreword: Reception and Its Discontents" George Kane, "An Open Letter to Jill Mann about the Sequence of the Versions of Piers Plowman" David C. Fowler, "Piers Plowman: Will's 'Apologia pro vita sua'" Rees Davies, "The Life, Travels, and Library of an Early Reader of Piers Plowman" John M. Bowers, "Dating Piers Plowman: Testing the Testimony of Usk's Testament" Sarah A. Kelen, "Plowing the Post: 'Piers Protestant' and the Authority of Medieval Literary History" Siegfried Wenzel, "Eli and His Sons" Bonnie Millar, "The Role of Prophecy in the Siege of Jerusalem and its Analogues" REVIEW ARTICLE AND RESPONSE Ralph Hanna III, "Piers Plowman and the Radically Chic" (review essay of Kathryn Kerby-Fulton and Denise Despres, Iconography and the Professional Reader: The Politics of Book Production in the Douce 'Piers Plowman') Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, with Denise Despres, "Fabricating Failure: The Professional Reader as Textual Terrorist" REVIEWS C. David Benson and Lynne Blanchfield, The Manuscripts of 'Piers Plowman': The B Version (Rob Adams) Lawrence Clopper, 'Songes of Rechelesnesse': Langland and the Franciscans (Wendy Scase) Douglas Parker, ed., The praier and complaynte of the ploweman vnto Christe (Jill C. Havens) Edwin D. Craun, Lies, Slander, and Obscenity in Medieval English Literature. Pastoral Rhetoric and the Deviant Speaker (Joan Blythe) Sean Taylor, "Annual Bibliography (1998)"

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