Yearbook of Langland Studies

Editors
Alastair Bennett, Royal Holloway, University of London
Katharine Breen, Northwestern University
Eric Weiskott, Boston College

Editorial Assistant
Eliza Feero, Northwestern University

Editorial Board
Michael Calabrese, California State University, Los Angeles
Cristina Maria Cervone, University of Memphis
Andrew Cole, Princeton University
Rita Copeland, University of Pennsylvania
Isabel Davis, Natural History Museum, London
Andrew Galloway, Cornell University
Simon Horobin, Magdalen College, University of Oxford
Traugott Lawler, Emeritus, Yale University
Adin Lears, Virginia Commonwealth University
Jill Mann, Emerita, University of Notre Dame and Girton College, University of Cambridge
Ad Putter, University of Bristol
Elizabeth Robertson, University of Glasgow
Wendy Scase, University of Birmingham
Jennifer Sisk, University of Vermont

D. Vance Smith, Princeton University
Thorlac Turville-Petre, Emeritus, University of Nottingham
Nicholas Watson, Harvard University
Nicolette Zeeman, King’s College, University of Cambridge

YLS welcomes submissions dealing with Piers Plowman and related poetry and prose in the traditions of didactic and allegorical alliterative writing. Papers concerning the literary, historical, religious, intellectual, codicological, and critical contexts of these works are also invited. Submissions are double-blind peer reviewed. In preparing their manuscripts for review, authors should avoid revealing their identity within the essay itself and follow the style guides given below. The editors are Alastair Bennett (Royal Holloway, University of London), Katharine Breen (Northwestern University), and Eric Weiskott (Boston College).

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Submissions are double-blind peer reviewed. In preparing their manuscripts for review, authors should avoid revealing their identity within the essay itself

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International Bibliography of Humanism and the Renaissance

International Medieval Bibliography

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