New Medieval Literatures

Volume One

(Oxford University Press, 1997 ISBN 0-19-818389-4)

New Medieval Literatures is the first issue of a new annual of work on literature and culture in medieval Europe. As well as featuring exciting new essays that interpret medieval texts for a postmodern age, every volume will include a survey by a leading medievalist of recent work in an emerging field of study. The essays in NML 1 question the concept of the medieval text itself.

Introduction: New Medieval Literatures: Breaking the Seal
WENDY SCASE
Textual Territory: The Regional and Geographical Dynamic of Medieval Icelandic Literary Production
MARGARET CLUNIES ROSS
Counterfeiters, Lollards and Lancastrian Unease
PAUL STROHM
Langlandian Reading Circles and the Civil Service in London and Dublin, 1380-1427
KATHRYN KERBY-FULTON and STEVEN JUSTICE
Conceptions of the Word: The Mother Tongue and the Incarnation of God
NICHOLAS WATSON
Childhood, Pedagogy, and the Literal Sense: From Late Antiquity to the Lollard Classroom
RITA COPELAND
Pedagogy, Violence, and the Subject of Music: Chaucer's Prioress's Tale and the Ideologies of 'Song'
BRUCE HOLSINGER
When a body meets a body: Fergus and Mary in the York Cycle
RUTH EVANS
Ageism: Leland, Bale, and the Laborious Start of English Literary History, 1350-1650
JAMES SIMPSON
Analytical Survey 1: Literary History and Cultural Study
DAVID LAWTON