Later Middle English Literature, Materiality, and Culture

Brian Gastle is professor of English at Western Carolina University.Erick Kelemen taught at Wabash College, the University of Missouri, the University of Kentucky, and Fordham University.

This collection focuses on the connections between the cultural, material, and aesthetic aspects of later medieval English literature. Essays address texts such as Piers Plowman, The Book of Margery Kempe, Confessio Amantis, and the Canterbury Tales in their material and cultural contexts.

DedicationList of FiguresIntroductionBrian Gastle and Erick KelemenPart I. Textual Material1. More Than Words Can Say?: Late Medieval Affective VocabulariesMark Amsler2. The Motives of Reeds: The Wife of Bath's Midas and Literary TraditionKarla Taylor3. A Taxonomy of Medieval English Travel WritingsChristian K. Zacher4. Lady Bertilak and the Rhetoric of Women in Sir Gawain and the Green KnightJoseph Turner5. Anarchy in the UK: Chaos and Community in Late Medieval Political WritingsJohn M. Ganim6. Amans the MemoriousR.F. YeagerPart II. Material Texts7. Ampullae and Badges: Pilgrim Paraphernalia in Late Medieval EnglandKathryn McKinley8. "Of crafty bildyng & werkyng most roial": Lydgate's Allusions to the Craftsand the Role of Making in Medieval Civic PoetryScott Lightsey9. Read with Your Hands and Not with Your Eyes: Touching Books of HoursGabrielle Parkin10. The Tales of Two Transactions: The Franklin, the Shipman, Feudalismand the Medieval Atlantic Maritime World SystemCraig E. Bertolet11. Owen Rogers and Piers Plowman's Crede, 1561: A Census of STC 19908Lawrence WarnerBibliographyContributors