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Volume 16 (2009)
edited by William F. Hodapp, Edward Risden and Mel Storm

Note on submissions v
William F. Hodapp:
An Introduction to Punishment, Penance, and Reward: The Case of Thomas Becket		 1
R.W. Hanning:
Prudential Penance		 14
Drew Mannetter:
Zeus's Reward and the Ambiguity of Eastern Decadence in Virgil's Aeneid		 43
William F. Hodapp:
Conquered by Babylon: Fate, Fortune, and Reward in Walter of Châtillon's Alexandreis		 64
Nichole Sterling:
Disposable Outsiders and Narrative Liability in Njáls Saga		 79
Stefan Thomas Hall:
Last Laughs: Torture in Medieval Icelandic Literature		 97
Edward Risden:
Plowing, Bowing, Burning, Journeying: Penance and Subverting Penance in Medieval Literature		 112
Mickey Sweeney:
Breaking the Romance: Identifying Sin, Earning Redemption, and the Gift of Mercy in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight		 124
Mel Storm:
The Green Knight and other Medieval Dismemberments		 140
Stephen Yandell:
Bearers of Punishment and Reward: Ahab's Prophets in Gower's Confessio Amantis		 153
Edward Risden:
Postscript		 166

Volume 15 (2008)
edited by Kristen Figg

Editor's Note v
Liam Felsen:
Temporal Confusion: Christ I as Medieval Lyric		 1
William F. Hodapp:
Prolegomena: C.S. Lewis's Pedagogical Scholarship		 17
Christopher Maslanka:
Knighthood in a Carl's House: Chivalry and Domesticity in Sir Gawain and the Carl of Carlisle		 46
John D. Cox:
Shakespeare, Self-Deception, and the Moral Play		 65
David Sprunger:
A Pseudo-"Canterbury Tale": Chaucer in the Seventeenth Century		 100
John Block Friedman:
The Alliterative Morte Arthure and "Monstrous" Breton Geography		 124
Review: Theodore K. Lerud, Memory, Images, and the English Corpus Christi Drama. Reviewed by William F. Hodapp 152

Volume 14 (2007)
edited by Carlos Hawley-Colón, Edward Risden, and Kristen Figg

Editor's Forward v
Note on Submissions vi
Christopher Kleinheinz:
Remembering Bob Kindrick		 vii
Karen R. Moranski:
"Diverse Practyk in Many Sondry Werkes": Norm Hinton's Career		 xi
Nickolas Haydock:
The Scottish Virgil (?): Henryson's Virgilian Career		 1
William F. Hodapp:
Reading the Narrator Reading Boethius: The Implied Audience of The Kingis Quair		 23
Russell Rutter:
The Sixteenth-Century Eclipse of Robert Henryson's "Fair Cresseid"		 36
Stefan Thomas Hall:
Dialogic Henryson		 55
Peter H. Goodrich:
Chivalric Pilgrimage and King Arthur's Court		 79
E.L. Risden:
Gawain's Ambivalent Christianity		 89
Mickey Sweeney:
Medieval Solomon and the Construction of Interpretation in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight		 101
Mary Olson:
Speaking Walls: Ekphrasis in Chaucer's House of Fame		 118
Mel Storm:
Rude Mechanicals and Minotaurs: Shakespeare and Chaucer Among the Mythographers		 139
Benjamin Smith:
Chiasmus and Prosification of the Cantar de mio Cid in the Crónica de Veinte Reyes		 152

Volume 13 (2006)
edited by Mel Storm

Editor's Note v
E.L. Risden:
Lost in the Not-So-Funhouse: Subversive Threads in the Medieval Narrative Labyrinth.		 1
Melanie Hanan:
Exotic, Demonic, or Economic: Using Black Africans for Political Gain in Western European Medieval Art, 1000-1400.		 24
Carlos Hawley-Colon:
Progress and Prejudice: Misarchaia, Scholarship, and the Pre-Modern Text.		 46
Abraham Quintanar:
Don Amor's Economy of Love: Time and Money in Matrimonial and Extra-Matrimonial Affairs.		 73
Kristin Bovaird-Abbo:
Lancelot Reborn: The Squire's Warning in The Canterbury Tales.		 104
Review: Andrew Galloway, Medieval Literature and Culture: A Student Guide. Reviewed by Norbert A. Wethington. 133
Review: Barbara Reynolds, Dante: The Poet, the Political Thinker, the Man. Reviewed by Delmar C. Homan. 135
Review: E.L. Risden, Beowulf for Business: The Modern Warrior's Guide to Career Building. Reviewed by Rebecca Brunson. 137

 

Volume 12 (2005)
edited by Kristen M. Figg

Editor's Note v
Note on Submissions vi
Margaret Hostetler:
Reading the Letters of Heloise: A Devotional Curriculum for Medieval Nuns.		 1
Harriet Hudson:
Linear or Nuclear? Family Patterns in Some Middle English Popular Romances		 26
Lesley Allen:
"Fro Spot my Spyryt ther Sprang in Space": Mapping Conversion in Pearl		 52
Christina Christoforatou:
The Iconography of Eros and The Politics of Desire in Komnenian Byzantium		 71

 

Volume 11 (2004)
edited by Mel Storm

Editor's Note v
Alan T. Gaylord:
Chaucer's Tragic Romance: Imagining Voices in Troilus & Criseyde		 1
Daniel Pinti
Language Play and Franciscan Propriety in the Chronicle of Salimbene de Adam		 26
Amy Orf
The Auxiliaries of the Spanish Progressive: Evidence from the Middle Ages		 39
Alexander L. Kaufman
To Write: Sir Thomas Malory and His Cautionary Narrative of Legimation		 61
Denise E. Cole:
Katherine and Henry: England's Dramatic Duo		 89
Mark Taylor:
"The King's Friend" in Richard II: With Friends like the King, Who Needs Enemies?		 107

 

Volume 10 (2003)
edited by Kristen M. Figg

Editor's Note v
Note on Submissions vi
Roy Hagman:
Reconstructing the Dantean Linguistic Universe: A Reconsideration of the De Vulgari Eloquentia		 1
John P. Bequette:
Conversion in Thomas of Celano's Vita Prima Sancti Francisci: Exemplar of Narrative Theology?		 12
Brian S. Lee:
Christian Adornment in The Man of Law's Tale		 31
John B. Friedman:
Costume and Transgressivity in the Pastourelle		 49
Abraham Quintanar:
The Thin Line Between Lust and Anger: Frustrated Emotion in Pedro de Escavias' "LLegando cansado yo"		 81
Daniel Scavone:
British King Lucius, the Grail, and Joseph of Arimathea: The Question of Byzantine Origins		 101
E.L. Risden:
Red and White and the Wars of the Roses: Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis and the Rape of Lucrece		 143

 

Volume 9 (2002)

Laura D. Barefield:
Gender and the Creation of Lineage in Geofrrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae		  
Melodie F. Harris:
Alphonsus Bonihominis' Conversionary Letter from Rabbi Samuel to Rabbi Isaac		  
Joe Sullivan:
Lady-in-Waiting Virtues in Middle High German Religious Biography		  
Dale Hample:
Reflexive Argument, the Heart of Inquisitorial Procedures		  
Karl Fugelso:
Appropriating Appropriation: John VIII Palaeologus in Pre-Modern Art and Modern Art History		  
Deanna Delmar Evans:
Introducing Christine de Pizan into the Chaucer Course: Tales of Griselda as Textual Context		  
Norbert A. Wethington:
Review: Marvels, Monsters, and Miracles: Studies in the Medieval and Early Modern Imaginations (Timothy S. Jones and David A. Sprunger, eds.)		  

 

Volume 8 (2001)
edited by Karen Moranski

Foreward v
Editor's Note vi
Yasuyo Moriya:
Metrical Constraints in King Arthur's Round Table in The Alliterative Morte Arthure		 1
Angela Laflen:
Illuminating Spectatorship in Malory's Morte d'Arthur		 20
Joan Herrington:
Dreams of Bloody Deeds: Adapting Richard II		 36
Edward L. Risden:
Script-Based Semantic Theory of Humor and the Old English Riddles		 61
Deborah Nelson-Campbell:
Coping with Isolation: Strategies of Some Medieval French Noblewomen		 71
Mary Olson:
"He has Given Birth to Iniquity": Gender and the Reading Subject in Ms. Harley 603		 85
Heather Hill-Vásquez
Reforming Response: Reception Aesthetics in the Chester Cycle		 120

 

Volume 7 (2000)
edited by Mel Storm

Foreward v
Editor's Note vi
Barbara I. Gusick:
Ambrose's Idea of God's Superabundance and the Construction of Work in the Towneley Cycle		 1
Jay Ruud:
The Gifts of Fortune, Nature, and Grace and the Structure of Piers Plowman B.XI		 37
Delmar C. Homan:
Loss, Grief, Reminiscence, and Popular Culture in Chaucer's Book of the Duchess		 63
William F. Woods:
Custance as God's Merchant in the Man of Law's Tale		 84
Jean E. Jost:
An Androgynous Nun's Eye View: Feminine Pity and Masculine Determination in the Prioress' Tale		 108
E.L. Risden:
The World's Greatest Knight: Malory, Theme and Form		 126

 

Volume 6 (1999)

Raymond P. Tripp, Jr.:
No Rest for the Wicked, a new Homiletic Reading of Grendel's Attack		  
Kathryn Jacobs:
Extra-Marital Contracts in the Canterbury Tales		  
William R. Levin:
"Lost Children," a Working Mother and the Progress of an Artist in the Florentine Misericordia in the Trecento		  
Carolyn B. Anderson:
Constructing Royal Character: King Richard in Richard Coer de Lyon		  
Rebecca Barnhouse:
Pictorial Exegesis in the Illustrated Old English Hexateuch		  
Alison Gulley:
Not Tonight Dear, I have a Vow of Chastity: Sexual Abstinence and Marital Vocation in The Book of Margery Kempe		  

 

Volume 5 (1998)

John B. Friedman:
Thomas of Cantimpre's Animal Moralitates: A Conflation of Genres		  
Barbara A. Goodman:
Physical Disfiguring and Body Forms in Middle English Metrical Romances		  
Emilio Englade:
"Straw for youre Gentillesse!": Masculine Identity, Honor, and Dorigen		  
Kurtis B. Haas:
Reading Genre Play between the Shipman's Tale and the Tale of Sir Thopas		  
William F. Hodapp:
Philomena's Song: Pecham, Translatio, and a Fifteenth-Century English Poet-Translator		  
David A. Lopez:
Holy Man and Holy Relic in the Fourth Century: Healer or Exorcist?		  
Jonathan Wilcox:
Teaching Anglo-Saxon Paganism, circa 1000		  

 

Volume 4 (1997)

Michael D. Myers:
A Butcher by any other Name is a ... Carter: The Reliability and Stability of Occupational Surnames in King's Lynn, c. 1400		  
Robin R. Hass:
Archetypus, Imaginatio, and Inventio: The Poet as Artifex and the Creation of a Feminized Language, Subject, and Text		  
Mary Frances Zambreno:
"Pryce" Meats and Princes: The Feast as Proving Ground in the Alliterative Morte Arthure and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight		  
Daniel Hobbins:
The Poet Laureate as Stabilizer: Bernard Andre and the Vita Regis Henrici Septimi		  
Pauline J. Alama:
Ofermod and Hygeleast: An Anglo-Saxon Psychology of Sin in Genesis B		  
Margaret Sinex:
"Hoc solum deliqui, quod vivo": Walter Map's Modernitas		  
Robert B. Rigoulot:
Histoire vraysemblable: Medieval French History in Transition		  
Kristin Brandser:
The Wife's Lament: A Riddel of Her own		  

 

Volume 3 (1995)

E. L. Risden:
The Gosforth Cross Narrative and Beowulf		  
Michael S. Nagy:
A Reassessment of Unferd's Fratricide in Beowulf		  
Jonathan Wilcox:
The Battle of Maldon and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 979-1016: A Winning Combination		  
Thomas Tipton:
The Toads on the Text: The Spirituality of Psalter Reading in the Life of Christina of Markyate		  
Molly Lynde-Recchia:
Narrative Strategy as Auctoritas in the Thirteenth-Century Prose Version of the Roman de Thebes		  
Rosanne Gasse:
Male Friendship in the Middle English Romance		  
Jean E. Jost:
The Parson's Tale: Ending "Thilke parfit glorious pilgrymage that highte Jerusalem Celestial" 		 
William Hodapp:
The Judgement of Paris and Methods of Reading in John Lydgate's Reson and Sensuallyte		  
Steven Gauntt:
La Sinrazon de Amor: A Mighty fine Argument against Love in Los siete Libros de la Diana		  

 

Volume 2 (1993)
edited by Mel Storm

Foreward v
Editor's Note vii
Jonathan Wilcox:
A Reluctant Translator in Late Anglo-Saxon England: Aelfric and Maccabees		 1
Eileen Robertson Hamer:
Eardisley Font: Images for the Eyes of the Heart		 19
Randi Eldevik:
Troia Redux: A Medieval Tradition, an Old Norse Mystery		 34
Joyce Tally Lionarons:
The Sign of a Hero: Dragon Slaying in Þiðreks saga af Bern		 47
Caroline A. Jewers:
Sentimental Education: The Roman de Flamenca and the Renaissance of the Ovidian Hero		 58
Rosalind Clark:
Sir Orfeo: The Otherworld vs. Faithful Human Love		 71
Thomas J. Hatton:
Chaucer's Miller's Curious Characters		 81
Robert Graybill:
Aristotelian Tragedy in Troilus and Criseyde		 90
Theodore K. Lerud:
Medieval Aristotelianism and the Poetics of the English Corpus Christi Drama		 99

 

Volume 1 (1991)

James J. Murphy:
Prospects for a History of Medieval Literary Theory		  
Jeannette M. A. Beer:
"Auctores" and "Auctoritas" in Li Fet des Romains		  
Ruth Dean:
"To Shorten Tyme": Daniel 13 and Thomas Garter's Commody of Susanna		  
Robert B. Rigoulot:
Breton Historiography and the Survival of Geoffrey of Monmouth		  
Mary Coker Joslin:
A "Secular Scripture," the Genesis of Roger de Lille's Histoire Ancienne		  
Daniel J. Pinti:
Words, Deeds, and Baptism: Efficacious Discourse in St. Erkenwald		  
Delmar C. Homan:
Chaucer's Pardoner and the Grotesque		  
Peter C. Braeger:
Interpretation in Poetry and Homily: Two Middle English Versions of the Parable of the Vineyard		  
Deanna Delmar Evans:
Donald Oure and Bernard Stewart: Responding to a Villain and a Hero in William Dunbar's Poetry		  
Sarah J. Hill:
Recovering Malory's Guenevere		  

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