YLS Volume 9 (1995)
Table of Contents
(ISBN 0-931791-62-0)
PAPERS FROM THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL LANGLAND CONFERENCE
John A. Alford, “Langland’s Learning” 1
Response by Stephen A. Barney 8
Response by Andrew Galloway 10
Richard Barnes, “Langland’s Stance and Style” 19
Response by Mary Clemente Davlin, O. P. 31
Response by M. E. J. Hughes 33
Helen Barr, “Piers Plowman and the Poetic Tradition” 39
Response by Ronald Waldron 57
Response by Joseph Wittig 59
John M. Bowers, “Piers Plowman‘s William Langland: Editing the Text, Writing the Author’s Life” 65
Response by Charlotte Brewer 91
Response by Traugott Lawler 94
Mary Carruthers, “Imaginatif, Memoria, and ‘The Need for Critical Theory’ in Piers Plowman Studies” 103
Response by Jeremy Tambling 114
Response by Stephanie Trigg 117
Wendy Scase, “Writing and the Plowman: Language and Literacy” 121
Response by Lawrence M. Clopper 132
Response by Gerald Morgan 135
FORUM
Lawrence M. Clopper, “A Response to Robert Adams, ‘Langland’s Oridnatio‘” 141
Samuel A. Overstreet, “A Response to D. Vance Smith, ‘The Labors of Reward'” 147
REVIEWS
Leslie-Anne Crowley, The Quest for Holiness: Spenser’s Debt to Langland (Judith H. Anderson) 153
Eamon Duffy, The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England 1400-1580 (Miri Rubin) 156
Richard K. Emmerson and Ronald B. Herzman, The Apocalyptic Imagination in Medieval Literature (Penn R. Szittya) 158
Stephen Justice, Writing and Rebellion: England in 1381 (Christopher Dyer) 163
A. J. Minnis, ed., Late-Medieval Religious Text and Their Transmission: Essays in Honour of A. I. Doyle (Tim William Machan) 169
Richard Newhauser, The Treatise on Vices and Virtues in Latin and the Vernacular (Winthrop Wetherbee) 173
James J. Paxson, The Poetics of Personification (Joseph S. Wittig) 176
Piers Plowman: A Facsimile of the Z-Text in Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Bodley 851. Introduction by Charlotte Brewer and A. G. Rigg (Ralph Hanna III) 183
Werner Rösener, Peasants in the Middle Ages (Dinah Hazell) 190
Gillian Rudd, Managing Language in Piers Plowman (N. F. Blake) 193
H. Leith Spencer, English Preaching in the Late Middle Ages (Siegfried Wenzel) 197
Siegfried Wenzel, Macaronic Sermons: Bilingualism and Preaching in Late-Medieval England (Anne Hudson) 203
Vincent DiMarco, Annual Bibliography