New Medieval Literatures 17

An invigorating annual for those who are interested in medieval textual cultures and open to ways in which diverse post-modern methodologies may be applied to them. Alcuin BlamiresReview of English Studies

An invigorating annual for those who are interested in medieval textual cultures and open to ways in which diverse post-modern methodologies may be applied to them. Alcuin Blamires, Review of English Studies

New Medieval Literatures is an annual of work on medieval textual cultures, aiming to engage with intellectual and cultural pluralism in the Middle Ages and now. Its scope is inclusive of work across the theoretical, archival, philological, and historicist methodologies associated with medieval literary studies, and embraces both the British Isles and Europe.
Essays in this volume engage with the relations between humans and nonhumans; the power of inanimate objects to animate humans and texts; literary deployments of medical, aesthetic, and economic discourses; the language of friendship; and the surprising value of early readers' casual annotations. Texts discussed includeBeowulf, works by Rolle, Chaucer, Langland, Gower, and Lydgate; lyrics of the Occitan troubadour Marcabru and the French poet Richard de Fournival; and the Anglo-Saxon versions of Boethius'sDe Consolatione Philosophiae and Augustine'sSoliloquia.

Wendy Scase is Geoffrey Shepherd Professor of Medieval English Literature at the University of Birmingham; David Lawton is Professor of English at Washington University, StLouis; Laura Ashe is Associate Professor of English at Worcester College, Oxford.
Contributors: Diane Cady, Aaron Hostetter, Boyda Johnstone, R. Jacob McDonie, Michael Raby, Joe Stadolnik, Spencer Strub, Eliza Zingesser,

The Lives ofNytenu: Imagining the Animal in the Old EnglishBoethius andSoliloquies - Michael Raby
Disruptive Things inBeowulf - Aaron Hostetter
Pidgin Poetics: Bird Talk in Medieval France and Occitania - Eliza Zingesser
Performing Friendship in Richard Rolle'sIncendium Amoris - Robert Jacob McDonie
Damaged Goods: Merchandise, Stories, and Gender in Chaucer'sMan of Law's Tale - Diane Cady
Gower's Bedside Manner - Joseph Stadolnik
Vitreous Visions: Stained Glass and Affective Engagement in John Lydgate'sThe Temple of Glass - Boyda Johnstone
The Idle Readers ofPiers Plowman in Print - Spencer Strub