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Kathryn Kerby-Fulton
This book examines the censorship issues that propelled the major writers of the period toward their massive use of visionary genres.
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The first study of the poetics of vocational crisis in Langland, Hoccleve, and Audelay, and many unattributed works, The Clerical Proletariat and the Resurgence of Medieval English Poetry discusses class…
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Kathryn Kerby-Fulton (University of Victoria, British Columbia)
This book is a scholarly study of Langland’s long poem Piers Plowman in relation to contemporary religious traditions concerning the course and end of history. In contrast to earlier studies…
Maidie Hilmo,Kathryn Kerby-Fulton
The medieval reading process was unusually multi-faceted, and can surprise the modern reader by offering an alternative grid or map of a text we believe we know well – one…
Critics of Piers Plowman have often behaved as if the great fourteenth-century English poem were written by committee, Written Work marks a major shift in orientation by focusing on William…
This book provides insights into the intellectual lives, spiritual culture, and literary authorship of medieval women.
Kathryn Kerby-Fulton,Maidie Hilmo,Linda Olson
This deeply informed and lavishly illustrated book is a comprehensive introduction to the modern study of Middle English manuscripts.
Upon Susanna Fein's retirement, this book brings together essays by eleven scholars who are indebted to Fein's research. Authors discuss Middle English manuscripts, lyrics, Chaucer, Pearl, multilingualism, gender, proverbs, and…
This is a volume of essays showcases new research and complexities in interdisciplinary manuscript studies in honor of Derek Pearsall.
Examines manuscripts of Langland, Chaucer, Gower, Nicholas Love and Arthurian tales, alongside other devotional works and archival evidence.
Essays bringing out the richness and vibrancy of pre-modern textual culture in all its variety.
Essays studying the relationship between literariness and form in medieval texts.
Wide-ranging examination of women’s achievements in and influence on many aspects of medieval culture.
Essays on women and devotional literature in the Middle Ages in commemoration and celebration of the respected feminist scholar Catherine Innes-Parker.
