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Category Archives: Publications
The B Version Archetype
My essay-length review of John Burrow and Thorlac Turville-Petre, eds., The “Piers Plowman” Electronic Archive, Vol. 9: The B-Version Archetype will appear in the Yearbook of Langland Studies 32. Here is the abstract: The B-Version Archetype, published on-line by the Piers … Continue reading
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Tagged alliterative verse, editions, manuscripts, Middle English, Piers Plowman, poetic meter, textual criticism, YLS
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Lawmen and Plowmen
From my review of Stephen M. Yeager, From Lawmen to Plowmen: Anglo-Saxon Legal Tradition and the School of Langland (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014): What did Old English literature contribute to the literary cultures of post-Conquest England? The question has … Continue reading
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Tagged alliterative verse, Medium Aevum, Middle English, Old English, Piers Plowman
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“Piers Plowman” and the Books of Nature
Rebecca Davis’s new book “Piers Plowman” and the Books of Nature appeared last year from Oxford University Press. I have reviewed the book for The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, and reproduce the opening paragraph of my review here. Classroom discussion … Continue reading
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Tagged JEGP, Middle English, Piers Plowman
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Reconstructing Alliterative Verse
Alliterative poetry is first recorded in English from the late seventh century, which makes it the oldest poetry in this language. Surviving poems include Cædmon’s Hymn, Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Piers Plowman, several of the most admired works … Continue reading
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Tagged alliterative verse, disciplinary history, Latin, Middle English, Old English, Piers Plowman, poetic meter
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Juliet Barker’s 1381
Juliet Barker’s 1381: The Year of the Peasants’ Revolt (Belknap Press, 2014) came to my attention too late to engage in my article “Gower and the Peasants’ Revolt” (2015), but I have now reviewed the book. I reproduce the opening and … Continue reading
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Tagged 1381, Peasants' Revolt, Piers Plowman, YLS
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Grammars and Rhetorics
To appear in the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain, ed. by Siân Echard and Richard Rouse (forthcoming, August 2017) opening paragraph: What is called western civilization is, perhaps, a fusion of the Roman imperial state and an Abrahamic … Continue reading
Vox clamantis
My article “Gower and the Peasants’ Revolt” has been published in the journal Representations, summer 2015 issue. Here is the abstract and article opening. abstract The Rising of 1381, or Peasants’ Revolt, was the largest popular insurrection in premodern … Continue reading
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Tagged 1381, cultural studies, ethics, John Gower, Latin, Peasants' Revolt, Representations
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Boethius in Medieval England
I have contributed a chapter on Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy to the forthcoming Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature, vol. 1: The Middle Ages. Written in 524-25, on the cusp of antiquity and the Middle Ages, the Consolation … Continue reading
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Tagged Anglo-Norman, Boethius, Chaucer, ethics, French, Latin, Middle English, Old English, reception history, translation
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Dobest
Abstract: John Burrow has recently argued that a program of rubrics recorded in many manuscripts of Piers Plowman is organic to this poem in its B version. In this article I demonstrate that a manuscript rubric known to Burrow but … Continue reading
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Tagged manuscripts, Medium Aevum, Piers Plowman, textual criticism
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The Accentual Paradigm
An excerpt from my article “The Accentual Paradigm in Early English Metrics,” which has now appeared in JEGP. I seek to show how Old English poetry first came to be regarded as “accentual” or “strong stress” in nineteenth-century scholarship, and … Continue reading
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Tagged 18th century, 19th century, alliterative verse, disciplinary history, George Hickes, JEGP, Middle English, Old English, poetic meter, Walter Skeat
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