YLS Volume 11 (1997)

Table of Contents

(ISBN 1-889818-13-5)

 

ESSAYS

C. David Benson, “Piers Plowman and Parish Wall Paintings”     1

Roy J. Pearcy, “Langland’s Fair Field”     39

Wendy Scase, “‘First to reckon Richard’: John But’s Piers Plowman and the Politics of Allegiance ”     49

Edward Jones, “Langland and Hermits”     67

Richard Firth Green, “Friar William Appleton and the Date of Langland’s B Text”     87

Sean Taylor, “The Lost Revision of Piers Plowman B”     97

Carl Grindley, “A New Fragment of the Piers Plowman C Text?”     135

Bryan P. Davis, “The Rationale for a Copy of a Text: Constructing the Exemplar for British Library Additional MS. 10574”      141

Tadahiro Ikegami, “A Short History of Langland Studies in Japan”     157

Ruth Nissé, “Reversing Discipline: The Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge, Lollard Exegesis, and the Failure of Representation”      163

 

FORUM

D. Vance Smith, “Samuel Overstreet’s ‘Response’: Ad Objectiones”     195

 

REVIEWS

David Aers and Lynn Staley, The Powers of the Holy: Religion, Politics, and Gender in Late Medieval English Culture (Denise N. Baker)     199

Helen Barr, Signes and Sothe: Language in the ‘Piers Plowman’ Tradition (Britton J. Harwood)     203

Charlotte Brewer, Editing ‘Piers Plowman’: The Evolution of the Text (Sean Taylor)     209

Edwin B. Dewindt, The Salt of Common Life. Individuality and Choice in the Medieval Town, Countryside, and Church. Essays Presented to H. Ambrose Rafti (Christopher Dyer)     216

Michael P. Kuczynski, Prophetic Song: The Psalms as Moral Discourse in Late Medieval England (David C. Fowler)     219

Richard G. Newhauser, and John A. Alford, ed., Literature and Religion in the Later Middle Ages: Philological Studies in Honor of Siegfried Wenzel (James Simpson)     230

 

Sean Taylor, “Annual Bibliography, 1996”     233