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Volume 19
Copyright 2005
ISSN 0890-2917

Essays: Andrew Cole, Fiona Somerset, and Lawrence Warner, “Foreword”; Simon Horobin, “The Scribe of Rawlinson Poetry 137 and the Copying and Circulation of Piers Plowman”; Mary Carruthers, “Allegory Without the Teeth: Reflections on Figural Language in Piers Plowman”; Thomas D. Hill, “‘When God Whistled for Chickens’: Birds and Poverty in Piers Plowman B.15.462–82”; Rebecca A. Davis, “‘Fullynge’ Nature: Spiritual Charity and the Logic of Conversion in Piers Plowman”; Masha Raskolnikov, “Promising the Female, Delivering the Male: Transformations of Gender in Piers Plowman”; Fiona Somerset, “‘Al þe comonys with o voys atonys’: Multilingual Latin and Vernacular Voice in Piers Plowman”; John M. Bowers, “Langland’s Piers Plowman in Hm 143: Copy, Commentary, Censorship”; Michael Calabrese, “[Piers] the [Plowman]: The Corrections, Interventions, and Erasures in Huntington MS Hm 143 (X)."

Reviews: Christina von Nolcken, Mishtooni Bose, Ardis Butterfield, Andrew Galloway, Simon Horobin, David Aers, Kate Crassons.

Annual Bibliography: Kalpen Trivedi


Volume 18
Copyright 2004
ISBN 1-58044-095-9

Essays: Andrew Cole, Fiona Somerset, and Lawrence Warner, "Forword"; 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 Langland's 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 Cooper, Maura Nolan, James J. Paxson, Larry Scanlon, Matthew Goldie, Katherine C. Little, Ethan Knapp.

Annual Bibliography: Kalpen Trivedi

Volume 17
Copyright 2003
ISBN 1-58044-083-5

Essays: 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 Míceál Vaughan's Response"

Reviews: Christina von Nolcken, Joseph S. Wittig, Stephen A. Barney, Ralph Hanna

Annual Bibliography: Kalpen Trivedi

Volume 16
Copyright 2003
ISBN 1-58044-077-0

Essays: 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", Míċeál F. Vaughan, "Response"; Margaret Kim, "Hunger, Need, and the Politics of Poverty in Piers Plowman"; Ralph Hanna, "Two New (?) Lost Piers Manuscripts(?)"

Reviews: Jill Mann, J. A. Burrow, Christine Chism

Annual Bibliography: Andrew Cole

Volume 15
Copyright 2002
ISBN 1-58044-027-4

Essays: C. David Benson, "What then does Langland Mean? Authorial and Textual Voices in Piers Plowman"; Edwin D. Craun, "'3e by Peter and by Poul!': Lewte and the Practice of Fraternal Correction" (with responses by David C. Fowler and Lawrence M. Clopper); Lawrence M. Clopper, "Langland and Allegory: A Proposition" (with responses by Ann W. Astell and James J. Paxson); Alan J. Fletcher, "The Essential (Ephemeral) William Langland: Textual Revision as Ethical Process in Piers Plowman" (with responses by Wendy Scase and Judith Dale); Anna Baldwin, "Patient Politics in Piers Plowman" (with response by Fiona Somerset); Andrew Galloway, "Piers Plowman and the Subject of the Law" (with responses by David Lawton and Louise M. Bishop); Anne M. Scott, "Nevere noon so nedy ne poverer deide": Piers Plowman and the Value of Poverty" (with responses by Bruce W. Hozeski and Joan Baker); Joseph S. Wittig, "'Culture Wars' and the Persona in Piers Plowman" (with 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: John T. Sebastian, Denise N. Baker, Christopher Cannon, David Lawton, Maura B. Nolan


Volume 14
Copyright 2000
ISBN 1-58044-027-4

Essays: A. V. C. Schmidt, "Langland's Visions and Revisions"; Thorlac Turville-Petre, "Sir Adrian Fortescue and his Copy of Piers Plowman"; James Simpson, "Grace Abounding: Evangelical Centralization and the End of Piers Plowman"; J. A. Burrow, "Gestures and Looks in Piers Plowman" (with responses by Priscilla Martin and Sandra Pierson Prior); Emily Steiner, "Langland's Documents" (with responses by Bryan P. Davis and Bruce Holsinger); Traugott Lawler, "The Pardon Formula in Piers Plowman: Its Ubiquity, Its Binary Shape, Its Silent Middle Term"; Thomas D. Hill, "Satan's Pratfall and the Foot of Love: Some Pedal Images in Piers Plowman A, B, and C"; Gavin Richardson, "Langland's Mary Magdalene: Proverbial Misogyny and the Problem of Authority"; Ralph Hanna, "Emendations to a 1993 'Vita de Ne'erdowel'."

Reviews by Stephen Shepherd and Anne Hudson.

Annual Bibliography and Index.


Volume 13
Copyright 1999
ISBN 1-889818-25-9

Essays: "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"; Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, with Denise Despres, "Fabricating Failure: The Professional Reader as Textual Terrorist."

Reviews by Rob Adams, Wendy Scase, Jill C. Havens, and Joan Blythe.

Annual Bibliography and Index.



 
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