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**Books**

1. *Permanent Revolution: The Reformation and the Illiberal Roots of Liberalism* (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019), 444 pp.
2. [*John Hardyng, Chronicle: Edited from British Library MS Lansdowne 204*](http://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/publication/simpson-pevereley-hardyng-chronicle)*,* co-edited with Sarah Peverley, Volume 1 (Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2015), 342 pp.
3. [*Reynard the Fox: A New Translation*](http://www.amazon.com/Reynard-Fox-A-New-Translation/dp/0871407361) (New York: Liveright/Norton, 2015), 256 pp.
4. [*Under the Hammer: Iconoclasm in the Anglo-American Tradition*](http://www.amazon.com/Under-Hammer-Iconoclasm-Anglo-American-Literature/dp/0199591652/), The Clarendon Lectures (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), 222 pp.
5. [*Burning to Read: English Fundamentalism and its Reformation Opponents*](http://www.amazon.com/Burning-Read-Fundamentalism-Reformation-Opponents/dp/0674046129/) (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007), 346 pp. (Paperback edition, Spring 2010)
6. [*Piers Plowman: An Introduction to the B-Text*](http://www.amazon.com/Piers-Plowman-Introduction-revised-Medieval/dp/0859898032/), second, revised edition (Exeter: Exeter University Press, 2007)
7. [*Reform and Cultural Revolution, 1350-1547*](http://www.amazon.com/Oxford-English-Literary-History-Revolution/dp/0199265534/), The Oxford English Literary History: Volume 2, General Editor Jonathan Bate (Oxford University Press, 2002), xviii + 663 pp. (Paperback edition 2004)
8. [*Sciences and the Self in Medieval Poetry: Alan of Lille’s “Anticlaudianus” and John Gower’s “Confessio amantis*,”](http://www.amazon.com/Sciences-Self-Medieval-Poetry-Anticlaudianus/dp/0521021111) Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, 25 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), xii + 321 pp. (Paperback edition 2005)
9. [*Piers Plowman: An Introduction to the B-Text*, Longman Medieval and Renaissance Library](http://www.amazon.com/Piers-Plowman-Introduction-Medieval-Renaissance/dp/0582013917), 1 (Harlow, Essex: Longman, 1990), xi + 272 pp. (Paper back edition also published 1990) (Selection rpt in Piers Plowman, edited by Elizabeth Robertson and Stephen Shepherd (New York: Norton, 2006), 584-91
10. [*Parisian Libraries, for The Index of Middle English Prose*](http://www.amazon.com/Index-Middle-English-Prose-Handlist/dp/1843841509), General Editor A. S. G. Edwards (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1989), 38 pp.

**Edited books**

1. *The Oxford Chaucer*, edited by Christopher Cannon and James Simpson (Oxford: Oxford Unversity Press, 2024)
2. *The Norton Anthology of English Literature*, General Editor Stephen Greenblatt, “The Middle Ages,” eleventh edition; “The Middle Ages,” ed. Julie Orlemanski and James Simpson (New York: W. W. Norton, 2024), pp. 1-681
3. *Intention and Interpretation, Now and Then*: special issue of *Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies* 53 (2023), edited by James Simpson
4. *Reading Cultures in Medieval England,* edited Daniel Donoghue, James Simpson, Nicholas Watson and Anna Wilson (Cambridge, UK: Boydell and Brewer Press, 2022)
5. *Enlistment: Lists in Medieval and Early Modern Literature*, edited by Eva von Contzen and James Simpson (Ohio State University Press, 2022)
6. *The Oxford Handbook to Chaucer*, edited by Suzanne Akbari and James Simpson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020)
7. *The Norton Anthology of English Literature*, General Editor Stephen Greenblatt, tenth edition; “The Middle Ages,” ed. James Simpson (New York: W. W. Norton, 2017), 1-580 pp.
8. [*Cultural Reformations: Medieval and Renaissance in Literary History,*](http://www.amazon.com/Cultural-Reformations-Renaissance-Twenty-First-Approaches/dp/0199212481) edited by Brian Cummings and James Simpson, Twenty-First Century Approaches, 2 (Oxford University Press, 2010), xii+689pp.
9. *The Norton Anthology of English Literature*, General Editor Stephen Greenblatt, ninth edition; “The Middle Ages,” ed. Alfred David and James Simpson (New York: W. W. Norton, 2012), 1-529
10. [*Premodern Shakespeare*](http://jmems.dukejournals.org/content/40/1/1.short), edited by Sarah Beckwith and James Simpson, a special issue of The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 40 (2010)
11. [*The Morton Bloomfield Lectures, 1989-2005*](http://www.amazon.com/Morton-W-Bloomfield-Lectures-1989-2005/dp/1580441467), edited by Daniel Donoghue, James Simpson and Nicholas Watson (Medieval Institute Publications: Kalamazoo, MI, 2010)
12. [*The Norton Anthology of English Literature*](http://www.amazon.com/Norton-Anthology-English-Literature-Middle/dp/0393927172), General Editors Stephen Greenblatt and M. H. Abrams, eighth edition; “The Middle Ages”, ed. Alfred David and James Simpson (New York: W. W. Norton, 2006), 1-484
13. [*John Lydgate: Poetry, Culture, and Lancastrian England*](http://www.amazon.com/John-Lydgate-Culture-Lancastrian-England/dp/0268041164), ed. Larry Scanlon and James Simpson (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006)
14. [*Images, Idolatry and Iconoclasm in Late Medieval England*](http://www.amazon.com/Images-Idolatry-Iconoclasm-Medieval-England/dp/0198187599), edited by Jeremy Dimmick, James Simpson and Nicolette Zeeman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), xiv + 250 pp. June 2005: available in “Print on Demand” format.
15. [*Medieval English Religious and Ethical Literature: Essays in Honour of G. H. Russell*](http://www.amazon.com/Medieval-English-Religious-Ethical-Literature/dp/0859912205), edited by Gregory Kratzmann and James Simpson (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1986), 250 pp. 133-153

**Articles**

1. With Christopher Cannon, “Editing Chaucer’s Works: Coherence and Collaboration,” in *Medieval Manuscripts, Readers and Texts: Essays in Honour of Kathryn Kerby-Fulton*, ed. Misty Schieberle and Amanda Bohne (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2024), 74-104
2. “William Tyndale (c. 1494–1536): Biblical Translation and Interpretation in England,” in *The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Renaissance World*, ed. Kristen Poole and Jay Zysk (London: Taylor and Francis, 2024)
3. “Modernity’s Selfhood and the Desacralization of Images,” for *Iconoclasm: Rejecting the Past*, ed. Elias Linden (Stockholm: Bokförlaget Stolpe, 2024), pp. 121-36
4. “The Shock of the Old: Recognition in the Humanities. The 2022 Morton W. Bloomfield Memorial Lecture,” in *Form and Power in Medieval and Early Modern Literature: A Book for James Simpson*, ed. Daniel Donoghue, Sebastian Sobecki, and Nicholas Watson (Woodbridge: Brewer, 2024), 13-34
5. “The Canon of Chaucer’s Works,” for the *Chaucer Encyclopedia*, General Editor Richard G. Newhauser, 4 vols. (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2023), 1: 332-34
6. “The Ellesmere Manuscript: The Once and Future *Canterbury Tales*,” *Huntington Library Quarterly* 85 (2023), 197-218
7. “Intention and Interpretation, Now and Then,” *Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies* 53 (2023): 451-65
8. *“*Literary Traditions: Continuity and Change*,” The Oxford History of Poetry in English*, Volume 3: *Poetry in English:* *1400-1500*, ed. Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. 28-45
9. *ales*” *Huntington Library Quarterly* 85 (2023), 197-218
10. “Enlistment as Poetic as Poetic Stratagem,” with Eva von Contzen, Introduction to *Enlistment: Lists in Medieval and Early Modern Literature* edited by Eva von Contzen and James Simpson (Ohio State University Press, 2022), pp. 1-14
11. “Introduction” (co-written with fellow editors), *Reading Cultures in Medieval England,* edited Daniel Donoghue, James Simpson, Nicholas Watson and Anna Wilson (Cambridge UK: Boydell and Brewer Press, 2022), 1-17
12. Unwritten Virtues, Selves and Texts: Early Modern Self-Erasure,” *Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies* 52 (2022), 415-44
13. “Reformation Lists: Syntax, the Sacred, and the Production of Junk,” for *Enlistment: Lists in Medieval and Early Modern Literature*, edited by Eva von Contzen and James Simpson (Ohio State University Press, 2022), pp. 195-212
14. “Prisonniers de la ‘Liberté!,’” *Le Journal des Libertés* 17 (summer 2022), 123-37
15. “Capaneus’ Atheism and Criseyde’s Reading in Chaucer’s *Troilus and Criseyde*,*”* in “*Of latine and of othire lare*: Essays in Honour of David R. Carlson,” ed. Richard Firth Green and R. F. Yeager (Toronto: PIMS, 2022), 67-81.
16. “The Not Yet Wife of Bath,” in *Gender, Poetry, and the Form of Thought in Later Medieval Literature: Essays in Honor of Elizabeth A. Robertson*, edited by Ingrid Nelson and Jennifer Jahner (Bethlehem, PN: Lehigh University Press, 2022), 201-22
17. “Giving and Gaining Voice in Civil War: the Alain Chartier’s *Quadrilogue Invectif* in Fifteenth-Century England,” *Literature, Emotions and Pre-Modern War*, edited by Claire McIroy and Anne M. Scott (Leeds: ARC Humanities Press, 2021), 151-66
18. <a>“’Gaufred, deere maister soverain’: Chaucer and Rhetoric,” *The Oxford Handbook to Chaucer*, edited by Suzanne Akbari and James Simpson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), 126-46</a>
19. “Stilled Lives, Still Lives: Reformation Memorial Focus,”  
    for *Remembering the Reformation,* ed. Brian Cummings, Ceri Law, Bronwyn Wallace, and Alexandra Walsham (London: Routledge, 2020), 23-40
20. “Trans-Reformation English Literary History,” in *Early Modern Histories of Time: The Periodizations of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England,*  ed. Kristen Poole and Owen Williams (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019), pp. 88-101
21. “Working, across the Very Long Reformation: Four Models,”*Reformation* 24 (2019), 181-94 (Special issue: “Early Modern Literature and England’s Long Reformation,” edited by David Loewenstein and Alison Shell)
22. “Richard II” in *A Companion to Chaucer*, revised edition, edited by Peter Brown (Oxford: Blackwell, 2019), 359-78
23. “Anti-Virgilianism in Late Medieval Troy Narratives,” in *Troie en Europe au Moyen Âge*, ed. Catherine Croizy-Naquet, Anne Rochebouet, Florence Tanniou, vol. 2, *Troianalexandrina* 19 (2019), 293-312
24. “Unthinking Romance: *Sir Degaré”* for *Thinking Medieval Romance*, edited by Katherine C. Little and Nicola McDonald (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 36-54
25. “Textual Face: Cognition as Recognition,” for *Contemporary Chaucer across the Centuries, a Festschrift for Stephanie Trigg*, edited by Helen M. Hickey, Anne McHendry and Melissa Raine (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018), pp. 218-233
26. “Subversive Laughter in *Reynard the Fox*” for *Animals: a History*, edited by Peter Adamson and G. Fay Edwards, Oxford Philosophical Concepts (Oxford: University press, 2017), pp. 157-62. This essay was also chosen to be posted in the website of the American Philosophical Association: [https://blog.apaonline.org/2018/06/13/subversive-laughter-in-reynard-th…](https://blog.apaonline.org/2018/06/13/subversive-laughter-in-reynard-the-fox/&nbsp);
27. “2016. Interrogation Over. A Review Essay of Rita Felski, *The Limits of Critique*,” *PMLA* 132 (2017), 377-83
28. “Brad Gregory’s Unintended Revelations,” *Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies*, 46 (2016), 545-54
29. “The *Aeneid* Translations of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey: the Exiled Reader’s Presence,” in *The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature,* Vol. 1: *The Middle Ages*, edited by Rita Copeland (Oxford: OUP, 2016), 601-23
30. ‘The Formless Ruin of Oblivion’: Shakespeare’s *Troilus and Cressida* and Literary Defacement,” for *Love, History and Emotion in Chaucer and Shakespeare:* Troilus and Criseyde *and* Troilus and Cressida, edited by Andrew Johnston, Russell West Pavlov and Elizabeth Kempf (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016), 189-206
31. “The Psalms and Threat in Sixteenth-Century English Court Culture,” *Renaissance Studies* 29 (2015), 576-94
32. “Not Yet: Chaucer and Anagogy,” Biennial Lecture of the New Chaucer Society, *Studies in the Age of Chaucer* 37 (2015), 31-54. Republished in *Asynchronien*: *Formen der verschränkter Zeit in der Vormoderne*, ed. Jutta Eming and Johannes Traulsen (Brill: Göttingen, 2022), pp. 63-84.
33. “Human Prudence versus the Emotion of the Cosmos: War, Deliberation and Destruction in the Late Medieval Statian Tradition,” in *Emotions and War*, edited by Andrew Lynch, Stephanie Downes, and Katrina O'Loughlin (Palgrave McMillan, 2015), pp. 98-116
34. “Glassy Temporalities: The Chapel Windows of King’s College Cambridge,” for a volume devoted to King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, in celebration of its 500th anniversary, edited by Nicolette Zeeman and Jean Michel Massing (London: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2014), pp. 79-95
35. “Iconoclasm: Early Modern Britain and America,” entry for *Oxford Encyclopaedia of Aesthetics*, second edition, edited by Michael Kelly, 6 vols. (Oxford University Press, 2014), 3:400-403
36. “Iconoclasm and the Enlightenment Museum,” in  *Striking Images: Iconoclasms Past and Present*, edited by Stacy Boldrick, Leslie Brubaker and Richard Clay (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2013), pp. 113-27
37. "Religious Forms and Institutions in *Piers Plowman,*” in *The Cambridge Companion to* Piers Plowman*,* edited by Andrew Cole and Andy Galloway (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), 97-116
38. “Derek Brewer’s Romance,” in *A Modern Medievalist: Traditions and Innovations in the Study of Medieval Literature,* edited by Charlotte Brewer and Barry Windeatt (Cambridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2013), pp. 154-72
39. (Co-author and principal author) “The Teaching of the Arts and Humanities at Harvard College: Mapping the Future” (2013), at <http://artsandhumanities.fas.harvard.edu/>
40. “Cognition is Recognition: Literary Knowledge and Textual ‘Face,’” *New Literary History,* 44 (2013): 25-44
41. “John Bale’s *Three Laws*,” in *The Oxford Handbook to Tudor Drama*, edited by Greg Walker and Tom Betteridge (Oxford University Press, 2012), 109-22
42. “No Brainer: The Early Modern Tragedy of Torture,” *Religion and Literature*, 43 (2011): 1-23
43. “The Reformation of Scholarship: A Reply to Debora Shuger,” by *The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies* 42 (2012): 249-68
44. “Orthodoxy’s Image Trouble: Images in and After Arundel’s *Constitutions*,” for *After Arundel: Religious Writing in Fifteenth-Century England*, edited by Vincent Gillespie and Kantik Ghosh is (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2011), 91-113
45. “Killing Authors: Skelton’s Dreadful *Bouge of Court*,” in *Form and Reform: Reading the Fifteenth Century,* edited by Kathleen Tonry and Shannon Gayk (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2011), 180-96
46. “Visionary Writing in England, 1534-1550s,” *The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Mysticism*, edited by Vincent Gillespie and Samuel Fanous (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 249-64
47. “’Not Just a Museum’? Not so Fast,” for a special volume (“Something Fearful”: Medievalist Scholars on the “Religious Turn” in Literary Criticism) of *Religion and Literature* 42 (2010), 141-61
48. ‘“And that was litel nede”: Poetry’s Need in Robert Henryson’s *Fables* and *Testament of Cresseid*’, in *Medieval Latin and Middle English Literature*, edited by Christopher Cannon and Maura Nolan (Cambridge: Brewer, 2011), 193-210
49. “Introduction,” co-written with Brian Cummings, for *Cultural Reformations: Medieval and Renaissance in Literary History*, edited by Brian Cummings and James Simpson, Twenty-First Century Approaches, 2 (Oxford University Press, 2010), 1-9
50. <a>“Place,” in *Cultural Reformations: Medieval and Renaissance in Literary History*, edited by Brian Cummings and James Simpson, Twenty-First Century Approaches, 2 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), 95-112</a>
51. “Premodern Shakespeare,” co-written with Sarah Beckwith, for *Premodern Shakespeare*, edited by Sarah Beckwith and James Simpson, a special issue of *The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies*, 40 (2010): 2-5
52. “Rhetoric, Conscience and the Playful Positions of Sir Thomas More” for *The Oxford Handbook to Tudor Literature, 1485-1603*, edited by Mike Pincombe and Cathy Shrank (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 121-36 (This volume won the Sixteenth Century Society's Roland H. Bainton Prize, 2010)
53. “Sixteenth-Century Fundamentalism and the Specter of Ambiguity, or The Literal Sense is Always a Fiction” for *Writing Fundamentalism,* ed. Klaus Stierstorfer and Axel Stähler (Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009), 133-54
54. “John Lydgate,” in *The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Literature*, edited by Larry Scanlon (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), 205-16
55. “The Economy of Involucrum: Idleness in *Reason and Sensuality*,” in *Through a Classical Eye: Transcultural and Transhistorical Visions in Medieval English, Italian, and Latin Literature in Honor of Winthrop Wetherbee*, edited by Andrew Galloway and R. F. Yeager (University of Toronto Press, 2009), 390-414
56. “Vernacular Literary Consciousness, c. 1100 – c. 1500: French, German and English Evidence,” with Kevin Brownlee, Tony Hunt, Ian Johnson, Alastair Minnis, and Nigel F. Palmer, in *The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism*, volume 2, *The Middle Ages*, edited by Alastair Minnis and Ian Johnson, paperback edition (incorrectly not listed as such in the hardback edition), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), 422-71
57. “Tyndale as Promoter of Figural Allegory and Figurative Language: *A Brief Declaration of the Sacraments*,” for *Archiv* *für das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 245 (2008): 37-55*
58. “Bonjour Paresse: Literary Waste and Recycling in Book 4 of Gower’s *Confessio amantis,”* The Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture, *Publications of the British Academy*, 151 (2007), 257-84
59. “Diachronic History and the Shortcomings of Medieval Studies,” in *Reading the Medieval in Early Modern England*, edited by David Matthews and Gordon McMullan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), 17-30
60. “Making History Whole: Diachronic History and the Shortcomings of Medieval Studies”, in *e-Colloquia*, 3 (2005), at <http://www.ecolloquia.com/issues/200501/index.html>
61. “Confessing Literature,” *English Language Notes* 44 (2006): 121-26
62. “Introduction,” in *John Lydgate: Poetry, Culture, and Lancastrian England,* ed. Larry Scanlon and James Simpson (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006), co-written with Larry Scanlon, pp. 1-11
63. “’For al my body…weieth nat an unce’: Empty Poets and Rhetorical Weight in Lydgate’s *Churl and the Bird*,” in *John Lydgate: Poetry, Culture, and Lancastrian England,* ed. Larry Scanlon and James Simpson (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006), 129-46
64. “Chaucer as a European Writer,” in *The Yale Companion to Chaucer*, ed. Seth Lerer (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005), 55-86
65. “An Appendix of Literary Terms,” in *Norton Anthology of English Literature*, 8, Co-Editor Alfred David, General Editor Stephen Greenblatt (W. W. Norton: New York. 2006), 19 pages
66. “Consuming Ethics: Caxton’s *History of Reynard the Fox,*” in *Studies in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Texts in Honour of John Scattergood*, edited by Alan Fletcher and Anne-Marie D’Arcy (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005), pp. 321-36
67. “Subjects of Triumph and Literary History: Dido and Petrarch in Petrarch’s *Trionfi* and *Africa*,” *Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies* 35 (2005): 489-508. Translated and republished as “Soggetti di trionfo e storia letteraria: Didone e Petrarca nell’*Africa* e nei *Trionfi* di Petrarca,” in *Petrarca: canoni, esemplarità*, edited by Valeria Finucci (Rome: Bulzoni, 2006), 73-92
68. “Saving Satire after Arundel: John Audelay’s *Marcol and Solomon*,”in *Text and Controversy from Wyclif to Bale*, *Essays in Honour of Anne Hudson*, edited by Ann Hutchison and Helen Barr (Turnhout: Brepols, 2005), 387-404
69. “Not the Last Word,” being a reply to review articles for a number of *JMEMS* wholly dedicated to consideration of *Reform and Cultural Revolution, JMEMS*, 35 (2005), 111-19.
70. “Pecock and Fortescue,” for A *Companion to Middle English Prose*, edited by A. S. G. Edwards (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2004), pp. 271-88
71. “Martyrdom in the Literal Sense: Surrey’s Psalm Paraphrases,” *Medieval and Early Modern English Studies (South Korea)*, 12 (2004), 133-165
72. “Humanism,” in *Dictionary of the Middle Ages.* Supplement 1. William Chester Jordan, Editor in Chief (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2004), pp. 279-82
73. “Chaucer’s Presence and Absence, 1400-1550,” *A Chaucer Companion*, edited by Jill Mann and Piero Boitani, second edition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 251-69
74. “Faith and Hermeneutics: Pragmatism versus Pragmatism,” *Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies*, 33 (2003), 215-39
75. “The Rule of Medieval Imagination,” in *Images, Idolatry and Iconoclasm in Late Medieval England*, edited by Jeremy Dimmick, James Simpson and Nicolette Zeeman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), pp. 4-24
76. “The Power of Impropriety: Authorial Naming in *Piers Plowman*,” in *William Langland’s* Piers Plowman*: A Book of Essays*, edited by Kathleen M. Hewett-Smith (New York: Routledge, 2001), pp. 145-165
77. “Grace Abounding: Evangelical Centralisation and the End of *Piers Plowman*,” *Yearbook of Langland Studies*, 14 (2000), 1-25
78. “Bulldozing the Middle Ages: the Case of “John Lydgate,” *New Medieval Literatures*, 4 (2000), 213-42
79. “Medieval Literature, Class 1,” in *The Virtual Classroom*, <http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/vclass/virtclas.htm>, 2000-
80. “Contemporary English Writers,” in *A Companion to Chaucer*, edited by Peter Brown (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000), pp. 114-32
81. “The Sacrifice of Lady Rochford: Henry Parker’s Translation of *De claris mulieribus,”* in *“Triumphs of English”: Henry Parker, Lord Morley, Translator to the Tudor Court. New Essays in Interpretation*, edited by Marie Axton and James P. Carley (London: British Library Publications, 2000), pp. 153-69
82. “Violence, Narrative and Proper Name: *Sir Degaré*, “The Tale of Sir Gareth of Orkney,” and the Anglo-Norman *Folie Tristan dOxford*,” in *The Spirit of Medieval English Popular Romance*, ed. Jane Gilbert and Ad Putter (Harlow: Longman, 2000), 122-41
83. “Breaking the Vacuum: Ricardian and Henrician Ovidianism,” *Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies*, 29 (1999), 325-55
84. “Ethics and Interpretation: Reading Wills in Chaucer’s *Legend of Good Women,” Studies in the Age of Chaucer*, 20 (1998), 73-100
85. “Hoccleve,” “Usk” and “Beast Fable” entries for *Medieval England: An Encyclopaedia*, General Editor, Paul E. Szarmach (New York: Garland, 1998), 111-12
86. “The Other Book of Troy: Guido delle Colonne’s *Historia destructionis Troiae* in Fourteenth and Fifteenth-Century England,” *Speculum*, 73 (1998), 397-423. Reprinted in *Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism* (Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co.), Volume 90
87. “Ageism: Leland, Bale and the Laborious Start of English Literary History, 1350-1550,” *New Medieval Literatures*, 1 (1997), 213-35
88. ““Dysemol daies and Fatal houres”: Lydgate’s *Destruction of Thebes* and Chaucer’s *Knight’s Tale*,” in *The Long Fifteenth Century: Essays in Honour of Douglas Gray*, edited by Helen Cooper and Sally Mapstone (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), pp. 15-33
89. “Desire and the Scriptural Text: Will as Reader in *Piers Plowman*,” in *Criticism and Dissent in the Middle Ages*, edited by Rita Copeland (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 215-43
90. “Nobody’s Man: Thomas Hoccleve’s *Regement of Princes*,” in *London and Europe*, edited by Julia Boffey and Pamela King (London: Westfield Publications in Medieval Studies, 1995), pp. 150-80
91. ““Ut Pictura Poesis”: A Critique of Robert Jordan’s *Chaucer and the Shape of Creation,”* in *Interpretation Medieval and Modern*: *J.A.W.Bennett Memorial Lectures, eighth series*, edited by Piero Boitani and Anna Torti (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1993), pp. 167-87
92. “The Death of the Author?: Skelton’s *Bowge of Court*,” in *The Timeless and the Temporal, Writings in Honour of John Chalker*, edited by Elizabeth Maslen (London: Queen Mary and Westfield College, 1993), pp. 58-79
93. “The Information of Genius in Book III of the *Confessio Amantis*,” *Mediaevalia*, 16 (1993, for 1990), 159-95
94. “’After Craftes Conseil clotheth yow and fede’: Langland and the City of London,” in *England in the Fourteenth Century, Proceedings of the Harlaxton Conference, 1991*, edited by N. Rogers (Stamford: Paul Watkins, 1993), pp. 109-127
95. “The Information of Alan of Lille’s *Anticlaudianus*: a Preposterous Interpretation,” *Traditio* 47 (1992), 113-160
96. “Madness and Texts: Hoccleve’s *Series*,” in *Chaucer and Fifteenth Century Poetry*, edited by Janet Cowen and Julia Boffey, King’s College London Medieval Studies, 5 (London: King’s College, London, 1991), pp. 15-29
97. “The Constraints of Satire in *Mum and the Sothsegger* and *Piers Plowman*,” in *Langland, the Mystics and the Medieval English Religious Tradition*, edited by Helen Phillips (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1990), pp. 11-30
98. “Poetry as Knowledge: Dante’s *Paradiso* XIII,” *Forum for Modern Language Studies*, 25 (1989), 329-43
99. “Ironic Incongruence in the Prologue and Book I of Gower’s *Confessio Amantis*,” *Neophilologus*, 72 (1988), 617-32
100. “Spirituality and Economics in Passus I-VII of the B-Text of *Piers Plowman*,” *The Yearbook of Langland Studies*, 1 (1987), 83- 103
101. “The Role of *Scientia* in *Piers Plowman*,” in *Medieval English Religious and Ethical Literature: Essays in Honour of G.H.Russell*, edited by Gregory Kratzmann and James Simpson (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1986), pp. 49-65
102. “From Reason to Affective Knowledge: Modes of Thought and Poetic Form in *Piers Plowman*,” *Medium Aevum*, 55 (1986), 1-23
103. “The Transformation of Meaning: a Figure of Thought in *Piers Plowman*,” *Review of English Studies*, n.s. 37 (1986), 1-23
104. “Dante’s “*Astripetam Aquilam*” and the Theme of Poetic Discretion in the *House of Fame*,” *Essays and Studies*, n.s. 39 (1986), 1-18
105. “*Et Vidit Deus Cogitationes Eorum*: a Parallel Instance and Possible Source for Langland’s Use of a Biblical Formula at *Piers Plowman* B.XV.200a,” *Notes and Queries*, n.s. 33 (1986), 9-13
106. “Spiritual and Earthly Nobility in *Piers Plowman*,” *Neuphilologische Mitteilungen*, 86 (1985), 467-81

**Reviews**

1. J. A. Burrow, *Medieval Writers and their Work*; Boris Ford (ed.), *Medieval Literature*, Part I; and Stephen Medcalf (ed.), *The Later Middle Ages*, in *Medium Aevum* 53 (1984), 307-11
2. Janet Coleman, *“Piers Plowman” and the “Moderni,”* in *Medium Aevum* 53 (1984), 125-27
3. William Wallon, *Inconsistencies: Studies in the New Testament, the Inferno, Othello and Beowulf* , in *Notes and Queries*, n.s. 31 (1984), 413-15
4. Piero Boitani, *Chaucer and the Italian Trecento*, in *Medium Aevum* 54 (1985), 306-8
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