New Medieval Literatures Volume VI

New Medieval Literatures is an annual containing the best new interdisciplinary work in medieval textual studies. Volume VI deals in depth with one of the most important of medieval vernacular writers, Geoffrey Chaucer, his closest successor, Thomas Hoccleve, and his most important precursor in England, Marie de France. It proposes new models for thinking of medieval writing in terms of politics and geography. NML is famous for its analytical surveys, in which major, often younger, scholars review recent work across their entire fields. In keeping with the theme of the volume, Performing Dissent, NML 6 has three surveys: on heresy in Europe (by Mark Pegg) and Britain (by Fiona Somerset), and on medieval liturgy and performance (by Bruce Holsinger).

David Lawton: Performing Dissent; Suzanne Verderber: Refiguring the Veil: The Transvaluation of Human History in Marie de France's 'Yonec'; Dan Birkholz: The Vernacular Map: Re-Charting English Literary History; Larry Scanlon: What's the Pope Got to Do With It? Forgery, Didacticism, and Desire in the Clerk's Tale; Clementine Oliver: A Political Pamphleteer in Late Medieval England: Thomas Fovent, Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Usk, and the Merciless Parliament of 1388; Emily Steiner: Commonalty and Literary Form in the 1370s and 80s; Jeremy Tambling: Allegory and the Madness of the Text: Hoccleve's 'Complaint'; Alastair Minnis: Chaucer and the Queering Eunuch; Mark Gregory Pegg: Catharism and the Study of Medieval Heresy; Fiona Somerset: Recent Research on Lollard Texts and History; Bruce Holsinger: Medieval Literature and the Cultures of Performance