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Book SynopsisBeginning in 1987, the yearbook was the preeminent venue for scholarship on "Piers Plowman"; on related poems in the tradition of didactic alliterative verse and on the historical, religious, and intellectual contexts in which such poems were produced in late medieval England. Each volume contains essays, reviews and an annotated bibliography.
Table of ContentsAndrew Galloway, " Foreword: Reception and Its Discontents" George Kane, "An Open Letter to Jill Mann about the Sequence of the Versions of Piers Plowman" David C. Fowler, "Piers Plowman: Will's 'Apologia pro vita sua'" Rees Davies, "The Life, Travels, and Library of an Early Reader of Piers Plowman" John M. Bowers, "Dating Piers Plowman: Testing the Testimony of Usk's Testament" Sarah A. Kelen, "Plowing the Post: 'Piers Protestant' and the Authority of Medieval Literary History" Siegfried Wenzel, "Eli and His Sons" Bonnie Millar, "The Role of Prophecy in the Siege of Jerusalem and its Analogues" REVIEW ARTICLE AND RESPONSE Ralph Hanna III, "Piers Plowman and the Radically Chic" (review essay of Kathryn Kerby-Fulton and Denise Despres, Iconography and the Professional Reader: The Politics of Book Production in the Douce 'Piers Plowman') Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, with Denise Despres, "Fabricating Failure: The Professional Reader as Textual Terrorist" REVIEWS C. David Benson and Lynne Blanchfield, The Manuscripts of 'Piers Plowman': The B Version (Rob Adams) Lawrence Clopper, 'Songes of Rechelesnesse': Langland and the Franciscans (Wendy Scase) Douglas Parker, ed., The praier and complaynte of the ploweman vnto Christe (Jill C. Havens) Edwin D. Craun, Lies, Slander, and Obscenity in Medieval English Literature. Pastoral Rhetoric and the Deviant Speaker (Joan Blythe) Sean Taylor, "Annual Bibliography (1998)"
