YLS Volume 12 (1998)
Table of Contents
(ISBN 1-889818-19-4)
ESSAYS
Andrew Galloway, “Introduction to Special Section: Gender and Piers Plowman” 1
Stephanie Trigg, “The Traffic in Medieval Women: Alice Perrers, Feminist Criticism, and Piers Plowman” 5
Joan Baker and Susan Signe Morrison, “The Luxury of Gender: Piers Plowman and The Merchant’s Tale 31
James J. Paxson, “Gender Personified, Personification Gendered, and the Body Figuralized in Piers Plowman” 65
Louise Bishop, “Dame Study and Women’s Literacy” 97
Andrew Galloway, “Intellectual Pregnancy, Metaphysical Femininity, and the Social Doctrine of the Trinity in Piers Plowman” 117
Ralph Hanna, “Reading Prophecy / Reading Piers” 153
Peter Barney, “Line-Number Index to the Athlone Edition of Piers Plowman: The C Version” 159
REVIEW ESSAY
Ralph Hanna, “A New Edition of the C Version” (review of George Russell and George Kane, eds., Piers Plowman: The C Version) 175
REVIEWS
James Dean, The World Grown Old in Medieval Literature (Míceál F. Vaughan) 189
George Economou, trans., William Langland’s “Piers Plowman”: The C Version (Dick Barnes) 194
Anne Hudson and Pamela Gradon, eds., English Wycliffite Sermons , Volumes 4 and 5 (Siegfried Wenzel) 199
Ralph Hanna, Pursuing History: ME MSS and Their Texts (Charlotte Brewer) 204
Steven Justice and Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, eds., Written Work: Langland, Labor, and Authorship (David Aers) 207
Gordon Teskey, Allegory and Violence (Seth Lerer) 217
Joseph Wittig, William Langland Revisited (Anna P. Baldwin) 221
Sean Taylor, “Annual Bibliography” 225