Yearbook of Langland Studies 38 (2024)

Commentary

Animals and Experiment in Piers Plowman
Keynote Address, Eighth International Piers Plowman Society Conference, London
EMILY STEINER

‘Drede at þe dore’: Dreadful Didacticism in Middle English Personification Allegory
PAUL MEGNA

Stephan Batman’s Peculiar Ways and the Parkerian Scribe of Pierce the Ploughman’s Crede
LAWRENCE WARNER

‘Would’st thou be in a Dream, and yet not sleep?’: Piers Plowman, Gormenghast, and the World of Weird Fiction
SARAH TOLMIE

Note

Wasters or Wycliffites? ‘Lollers ^bokys^’ in San Marino, Huntington Library, MS Hm 114
ISABEL SMITH

Piers and Pedagogy guest-edited by Michael Calabrese and Elizabeth Schirmer

Introduction
ELIZABETH SCHIRMER

The Vanishing Landscape of Piers Plowman
KATIE LITTLE

‘And I awaked therwith’: Piers Plowman, the Settlement Movement, and Service Learning
MIMI ENSLEY AND THOMAS A. GOODMANN

Unsettling the Half-Acre: Piers Plowman in the Making of Modern California
JENNIFER JAHNER AND ENID BAXTER RYCE

Personification, Ethics, and Disability in Piers Plowman and Beyond
KATE CRASSONS

The ‘leuest labor’: Community Colleges, Being a Scholar, and Piers Plowman
NOËLLE PHILLIPS

Field Reports

Encounters in the Wilderness: Teaching Piers Plowman as a Jew in Utah
SAMANTHA KATZ SEAL

Teaching Piers Plowman in a Religious-Trauma-Informed Classroom
HOLLY BARBACCIA

Translation Pedagogy: Plowing Down the 10 Freeway, with Langland, to East LA
MICHAEL CALABRESE

Visualizing Piers Plowman: The Literal and Allegorical Mechanics of Medieval Memory
J. A. T. SMITH WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY LENA DUNDES

Making and Unmaking Catastrophe: Piers Plowman and/as Speculative Fiction
WILL REVERE AND SHANNON GAYK WITH CARREL BARBER, SARAH LATONA, MARY MCCLUNG, SHELBY SIZEMORE, AND KELSEY WISE

Studying Well: Teaching Piers through Writing and Revision
TEKLA BUDE

Notes from Malvern

The Malvern Legacy of Piers Plowman
PETER SUTTON

Reviews

Visible English: Graphic Culture, Scribal Practice, and Identity, c.700–c.1550
(by Wendy Scase)
CHRISTOPHER CANNON

Retrospective Prophecy and Medieval English Authorship
(by Kimberly Fonzo)
VICTORIA FLOOD

Peasants Making History: Living in an English Region 1200–1540
(by Christopher Dyer)
ANDREW GALLOWAY

Medieval Allegory as Epistemology: Dream-Vision Poetry on Language, Cognition, and Experience
(by Marco Nievergelt)
PHILIP KNOX

Balaam’s Ass: Vernacular Theology before the English Reformation. Volume I: Frameworks, Arguments, English to 1250
(by Nicholas Watson)
TRAUGOTT LAWLER

Waste and the Wasters: Poetry and Ecosystemic Thought in Medieval England
(by Eleanor Johnson)
VIN NARDIZZI

The Middle English Book: Scribes and Readers, 1350–1500
(by Michael Johnston)
DANIEL SAWYER

Minstrels and Minstrelsy in Late Medieval England
(by Richard Rastall with Andrew Taylor)
GEORGE SHUFFELTON

The Theology of Debt in Late Medieval English Literature
(by Anne Schuurman)
JAMES SIMPSON

Sonic Bodies: Text, Music, and Silence in Late Medieval England
(by Tekla Bude)
KATHERINE ZIEMAN

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Annual Bibliography, 2023
PATRICK OUTHWAITE