Yearbook of Langland Studies 30 (2016)

Commentary

Reddere and Refrain: A Meditation on Poetic Procedure in Piers Plowman - Eleanor Johnson

William Langland and John Ball - Michael Johnston

Hiatus and Elision in the Poems of the Alliterative Revival: -ly and -liche Suffixes - Noriko Inoue

Defining Markedness in Middle English - Tim William Machan

Piers Plowman and the Durable Alliterative Tradition - Eric Weiskott

Langland and the French Tradition

Langland and the French Tradition: Introduction - R. D. Perry and Elizaveta Strakhov

Allegory, Hermeneutics, and Textuality: The French Lineage of Langland’s Re-Visionary Poetics - Marco Nievergelt

Grace Holds the ‘Clicket’ to the Heavenly ‘Wiket’: Piers Plowman, the Roman de la Rose, and the Poetics of Penetration - Sarah Wilma Watson

Madame Meed: Fauvel, Isabella, and the French Circumstances of Piers Plowman - Andrew Galloway

‘But Who Will Bell the Cat?’: Deschamps, Brinton, Langland, and the Hundred Years’ War - Elizaveta Strakhov

Langland’s French Song - R. D. Perry

Response: Not Peter or Perkyn, but Piers - Nicolette Zeeman

Plenary Lecture
Sixth International Piers Plowman Society Conference, Seattle, University of Washington, 23 July 2015
‘Stability and the Reading of Piers Plowman’ - C. David Benson

Notes: Scriptural Allusion in Lines 38–39 of the Prologue to Piers Plowman - Erin K. Wagner

Reviews

Adam Usk’s Secret (by Steven Justice) - CANDACE BARRINGTON

New Directions in Medieval Manuscript Studies and Reading Practices: Essays in Honor of Derek Pearsall (ed. by Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, John J. Thompson, and Sarah Baechle) - STEPHANIE L. BATKIE

Transforming Work: Early Modern Pastoral and Late Medieval Poetry (by Katherine C. Little) - GENELLE GERTZ

Unwritten Verities: The Making of England’s Vernacular Legal Culture, 1463–1549 (by Sebastian Sobecki) - JENNIFER JAHNER

Doctors in English: A Study of the Wycliffite Gospel Commentaries (by Anne Hudson) - KATHLEEN E. KENNEDY

Jankyn’s Book of Wikked Wyves, vol. ii: Seven Commentaries on Walter Map’s ‘Dissuasio Valerii’ (ed. and trans. by Traugott Lawler and Ralph Hanna III, using materials collected by Karl Young and Robert A. Pratt) - JONATHAN M. NEWMAN

Romance and the Gentry in Late Medieval England (by Michael Johnston) - RALUCA RADULESCU

Imagining the Parish in Late Medieval England (by Ellen K. Rentz) - CLAIRE M. WATERS

Annual Bibliography, 2015 Compiled by Alastair Bennett