Yearbook of Langland Studies 40 (2026)

Commentary

Giving Powerfully: Langland’s Parable of the Talents and the Moral Dilemmas of Philanthropy
Mary RASCHKO

Robin Hood of Hell and the Half-Acre: Piers, Christ, and Outlaw Tropes in Piers Plowman
Emily YOUREE

Founding YLS: Reflections by John Alford and Some Early Correspondents: E. Talbot Donaldson, George Kane, Helen Cooper
Andrew GALLOWAY

The Longue Durée of Langland Criticism

Introduction: Plowing the Longue Durée
Danielle ALLOR

Thomas Wright and Walter William Skeat
Larry SCANLON

John Matthews Manly, ‘Piers the Plowman and Its Sequence’ (1908), and G. R. Owst, ‘A Literary Echo of the Social Gospel’ (1933): Tactical Anonymity and the Common Voice
Nicholas WATSON

After ‘The Tearing’ and Before It: How a Ripped Legal ‘Pardon’ Shaped Langland’s Torn Critics
Ahmed M. Salem SEIF

On John A. Alford’s ‘The Role of the Quotations in Piers Plowman’
Bernardo S. HINOJOSA

David Aers, ‘Langland and the Church: Affirmation and Negation’
Nicolette ZEEMAN

Postscript: On Elizabeth Salter
David AERS

Minding the Gap between Audience and Public: Then and Now
Katharine BREEN

Anne Middleton, ‘Narration and the Invention of Experience’
Fiona SOMERSET

Voluntarism and James Simpson’s Essay, ‘From Reason to Affective Knowledge: Modes of Thought and Poetic Form in Piers Plowman’
Elizabeth ROBERTSON

The State of Nature in Piers Plowman Studies: Reading Nicolette Zeeman’s ‘The Condition of Kynde’
Rebecca DAVIS

Emily Steiner and the Objects of Cultural Poetics
Wan-Chuan KAO

Piers Plowman: A New Annotated Edition of the C-text, ed. by Derek Pearsall (2008)
Cristina Maria CERVONE

Review Essay

William Langland, Piers Plowman: A New Annotated Edition of the A-Text, ed. by Eric Weiskott (University of Exeter Press, 2025)
Sarah WOOD

Reviews

Annual Bibliography
Patrick OUTHWAITE