New Medieval Literatures

Volume Three

(Oxford University Press, 2000 ISBN 0-19-818680-0)

New Medieval Literatures is an annual containing the best new interdisciplinary work in medieval textual cultures. Volume 3 combines important work by established scholars with the results of the editors' quest for major new voices, including the prize winning essay in their first competition for younger scholars. The themes of the volume are the production of knowledge and text, cultural change and exchange, from early medieval China to fifteenth-century England. There are also paired and contrasting essays on Dante and on Langland. The volume ends with Sarah Kay's important survey of modern medievalist scholarship, the New Philology.

Introduction: Production, Place and Fantasy
DAVID LAWTON
Dante in Somerset: Ghosts, Historiography, Periodization
DAVID WALLACE
The Four Last Things in Dante and Chaucer: Ugalina in the House of Rumour
HELEN COOPER
Another Country: Ælfric and the Production of English Identity
KATHY LAVEZZO
Forgery at the University of Cambridge
ALFRED HIATT
Rivalry and Reciprocity in Lydgate's Troy Book
SCOTT-MORGAN STRAKER
Reading Caxton: Transformations in Capital, Authority, Print, and Persona in the Late Fifteenth Century
WILLIAM KUSKIN
'Studying' in the Middle Ages - and in Piers Plowman
NICOLETTE ZEEMAN
School and Scorn: Gender in Piers Plowman
RALPH HANNA III
Dirty Stories: Abjection in the Fabliaux
MIRANDA GRIFFIN
Panopticon is her Bedroom: Voyeurisma nd the Concept of Space in the Love Lyrics of Early Medieval China
ANNE BIRRELL
Analytical Survey 3: The New Philology
SARAH KAY