YLS Volume 28 (2014)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
(ISBN: 978-2-503-55212-5)
ESSAYS
Marie Turner, “Guy of Warwick and the Active Life of Historical Romance in Piers Plowman” 3
Alastair Bennett, “Covetousness, ‘Unkyndenesse’, and the ‘Blered’ Eye in Piers Plowman and ‘The Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale’” 29
Noelle Phillips, “Compilational Reading: Richard Osbarn and Huntington Library MS HM 114” 65
William Rhodes, “Medieval Political Ecology: Labor and Agency on the Half Acre” 105
Cord Whitaker, “Ambivalent Violence: Josephus, Rationalist Evangelism, and Defining the Human in the Siege of Jerusalem” 137
Elizabeth Harper, “‘A Tokene and a Book’: Reading Images and Building Consensus in Dives and Pauper” 173
Jim Knowles, “Langland’s Empty Verbs: Service, Kenosis, and Adventurous Christology in Piers Plowman” 191
Jim Knowles and Timothy Stinson, “The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive on the Web: An Introduction” 225
REVIEWS
Reading ‘Piers Plowman’, by Emily Steiner (Louise Bishop) 239
Probable Truth: Editing Medieval Texts from Britain in the Twenty-First Century, ed. by Vincent Gillespie and Anne Hudson (Michael Calabrese) 245
Opening up Middle English Manuscripts: Literary and Visual Approaches, by Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Maidie Hilmo, and Linda Olson (A. S. G. Edwards) 251
The Making of the Vernon Manuscript: The Production and Contexts of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. poet. a. 1, ed. by Wendy Scase (Susanna Fein) 254
Medieval Autographies: The ‘I’ of the Text, by A. C. Spearing (Mary C. Flannery) 258
Answerable Style: The Idea of the Literary in Medieval England, ed. by Frank Grady and Andrew Galloway (Matthew Giancarlo) 261
Fragments and Assemblages: Forming Compilations of Medieval London, by Arthur Bahr (Eleanor Johnson) 266
Poetics of the Incarnation: Middle Enlgish Writing and the Leap of Love, by Cristina Maria Cervone (Nicole Rice) 270
Langland and the Rokele Family: The Gentry Background to ‘Piers Plowman’, by Robert Adams (Stephen H. A. Shepherd) 275
Annual Bibliography, 2013 (281-307)