The Psalms and Medieval English Literature

Tamara Atkin, Francis Leneghan

An examination of how The Book of Psalms shaped medieval thought and helped develop the medieval English literary canon.

Introduction: a Case Study of Psalm 50.1-3 in Old and Middle English - Francis LeneghanSome Anglo-Saxon Psalters and their Glosses - Jane RobertsThe Eadwine Psalter and Twelfth-Century English Vernacular Literary Culture - Mark Faulkner'In eching for the beste': the Fourteenth-Century English Prose Psalter and the Art of Psalm Translation - Annie SutherlandThe Wycliffite Psalms - Elizabeth SolopovaRolle's English Psalter and the Possibilities of Vernacular Scriptural Commentary - Katherine ZiemanMaking the Psalter Sing: the Old English Metrical Psalms, Rhythm and Ruminatio - Francis LeneghanThe Psalms in the Old English Office of Prime - Daniel AnlezarkPsalm Genres in Old English Poetry - M J ToswellArticulating the Psalms in Middle English Alliterative Poetry:Some Passages of Piers Plowman, St Erkenwald and Pearl - Mike Rodman JonesMaidstone's Psalms and the King's Speech - Lynn StaleyThe Songs of the Threshold: Enargeia and the Psalter - Vincent GillespiePsalms as Public Interiorities: Eleanor Hull's Voices - David LawtonVox ecclesiae, vox Christi: the Psalms and Medieval English Ecclesiology - Michael Kuczynski