Yearbook of Langland Studies 33 (2019, publ.2020)

Commentary

• Lolling and the Suspension of Salvation in Piers Plowman - MICAH JAMES GOODRICH
• A Taciturn Will - EDWIN D. CRAUN
• Towards a Vernacular Ecclesiology: Revising the Mirour de l’Omme, Vox Clamantis, and Piers Plowman During the Western Schism - ZACHARY E. STONE
• The Clerical Career of William Rokele - MICHAEL JOHNSTON
• John But and the Ending of the A Version of Piers Plowman - SIMON HOROBIN

Personification

• Introduction - KATHARINE BREEN
• Langland’s Poetics of Animation: Body, Soul, Personification - JULIE ORLEMANSKI
• The Voice of the Sluggard: Humanizing Sloth in the Manuel des pechiez - CLAIRE M. WATERS
• Wet Shoes, Dirty Coats, and the Agency of Things: Thinking Personification through New Materialism - TEKLA BUDE
• Response: Langlandian Personification - MARY C. FLANNERY

Reviews

• Volition’s Face: Personification and the Will in Renaissance Literature (by Andrew Escobedo) - SARAH TOLMIE
• Patient Reading / Reading Patience: Oxford Essays on Medieval English Literature (by Ralph Hanna) - MICHAEL CALABRESE
• Pursuing Middle English Manuscripts and Their Texts: Essays in Honour of Ralph Hanna (ed. by Simon Horobin and Aditi Nafde) - MICHAEL JOHNSTON
• Staging Contemplation: Participatory Theology in Middle English Prose, Verse, and Drama (by Eleanor Johnson) BARBARA NEWMAN
• The Penn Commentary on ‘Piers Plowman’: Volume 4: C Passūs 15-19; B Passūs 13-17 (by Traugott Lawler) LAWRENCE WARNER
• Voice in Later Medieval Literature: Public Interiorities (by David Lawton) KATHERINE ZIEMAN
• Nature Speaks: Medieval Literature and Aristotelian Philosophy (by Kellie Robertson) REBECCA DAVIS
• Consolation in Medieval Narrative: Augustinian Authority and Open Form (by Chad D. Schrock) THERESA TINKLE
• Indecent Exposure: Gender, Politics, and Obscene Comedy in Middle English Literature (by Nicole Nolan Sidhu) SUZANNE M. EDWARDS
• The Philosophy of ‘Piers Plowman’: The Ethics and Epistemology of Love in Late Medieval Thought (by David Strong) JESSICA ROSENFELD
• Description and Narrative in Middle English Alliterative Poetry (by Thorlac Turville-Petre) STEPHEN A. BARNEY
• Middle English Mouths: Late Medieval Medical, Religious and Literary Traditions (by Katie L. Walter) MARY HAYES
• Chaucer’s Scribes: London Textual Production, 1384-1432 (by Lawrence Warner) DAVID RAYBIN

Annual Bibliography, 2018 - ALASTAIR BENNETT and NANCY HAIJING JIANG