Publications
Monographs
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Permanent Revolution: The Reformation and the Illiberal Roots of Liberalism
(Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019), 444 pp.
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Under the Hammer: Iconoclasm in the Anglo-American Tradition
The Clarendon Lectures (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), 222 pp.
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Burning to Read: English Fundamentalism and its Reformation Opponents
(Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007), 346 pp. (Paperback edition, Spring 2010)
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Piers Plowman: An Introduction to the B-Text
second, revised edition (Exeter: Exeter University Press, 2007)
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Reform and Cultural Revolution, 1350-1547
The Oxford English Literary History: Volume 2, General Editor Jonathan Bate (Oxford University Press, 2002), xviii + 663 pp. (Paperback edition 2004)
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Sciences and the Self in Medieval Poetry: Alan of Lille’s “Anticlaudianus” and John Gower’s “Confessio amantis,”
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, 25 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), xii + 321 pp. (Paperback edition 2005)
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Piers Plowman: An Introduction to the B-Text, Longman Medieval and Renaissance Library
1 (Harlow, Essex: Longman, 1990), xi + 272 pp.
Editions
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John Hardyng, Chronicle: Edited from British Library MS Lansdowne 204
co-edited with Sarah Peverley, Volume 1 (Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2015), 342 pp.
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The Oxford Chaucer
edited by Christopher Cannon and James Simpson, 2 vols. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024)
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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
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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
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature
General Editor Stephen Greenblatt, ninth edition; “The Middle Ages,” edited by Alfred David and James Simpson (New York: W. W. Norton, 2012), 1-529
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature
General Editor Stephen Greenblatt, eighth edition; “The Middle Ages”, edited by Alfred David and James Simpson (New York: W. W. Norton, 2006), 1-529
Translations
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Reynard the Fox: A New Translation
(New York: Liveright/Norton, 2015), 256 pp.
Edited Collaborative Volumes
- Intention and Interpretation, Now and Then: special issue of Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 53 (2023), edited by James Simpson
- Enlistment: Lists in Medieval and Early Modern Literature, edited by Eva von Contzen and James Simpson (Ohio State University Press, 2022)
- Reading Cultures in Medieval England, edited Daniel Donoghue, James Simpson, Nicholas Watson and Anna Wilson (Cambridge, UK: Boydell and Brewer Press, 2022)
- The Oxford Handbook to Chaucer, edited by Suzanne Akbari and James Simpson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020)
- Cultural Reformations: Medieval and Renaissance in Literary History, edited by Brian Cummings and James Simpson, Twenty-First Century Approaches, 2 (Oxford University Press, 2010), xii+689pp.
- Premodern Shakespeare, edited by Sarah Beckwith and James Simpson, a special issue of The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 40 (2010)
- The Morton Bloomfield Lectures, 1989-2005, edited by Daniel Donoghue, James Simpson and Nicholas Watson (Medieval Institute Publications: Kalamazoo, MI, 2010)
- John Lydgate: Poetry, Culture, and Lancastrian England, ed. Larry Scanlon and James Simpson (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006)
- Images, Idolatry and Iconoclasm in Late Medieval England, 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.
- 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), 250 pp. 133-153
Articles
- 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
- “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)
- “Modernity’s Selfhood and the Desacralization of Images,” for Iconoclasm: Rejecting the Past, ed. Elias Linden (Stockholm: Bokförlaget Stolpe, 2024), pp. 121-36
- “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
- “The Canon of Chaucer’s Works,” for The Chaucer Encyclopedia, General Editor Richard G. Newhauser, 4 vols. (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2023), 1: 332-34
- “Intention and Interpretation, Now and Then,” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 53 (2023), 451-65
- “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
- “The Ellesmere Manuscript: The Once and Future Canterbury Tales,” Huntington Library Quarterly 85 (2023), 197-218
- “Unwritten Virtues, Selves and Texts: Early Modern Self-Erasure,” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 52 (2022), 415-443
- “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
- “Enlistment 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
- “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
- “Prisonniers de la ‘Liberté!,’” Le Journal des Libertés 17 (summer 2022), 123-37
- “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.
- “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
- “Geoffrey’s Chaucer’s Reception of Alan of Lille,” in Alanus ab Insulis und das europäische Mittelalter, edited by Frank Betzner and Beate Kellner (Leiden: Brill, 2002), 179-94
- “Giving and Gaining Voice in Civil War: the Alain Chartier’s Quadrilogue Invectif in Fifteenth-Century England,” in Literature, Emotions and Pre-Modern War, edited by Claire McIroy and Anne M. Scott (Leeds: ARC Humanities Press, 2021), 151-66
- “’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
- “Stilled Lives, Still Lives: Reformation Memorial Focus,” in Remembering the Reformation, ed. Brian Cummings, Ceri Law, Bronwyn Wallace, and Alexandra Walsham (London: Routledge, 2020), 23-40
- “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
- “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)
- “Richard II” in A Companion to Chaucer, revised edition, edited by Peter Brown (Oxford: Blackwell, 2019), 359-78
- “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
- “Unthinking Romance: Sir Degaré” for Thinking Medieval Romance, edited by Katherine C. Little and Nicola McDonald (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 36-54
- “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
- “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: blog.apaonline.org/2018/06/13/subversive-laughter-in-reynard-the...
- “2016. Interrogation Over. A Review Essay of Rita Felski, The Limits of Critique,” PMLA 132 (2017), 377-83
- “Brad Gregory’s Unintended Revelations,” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 46 (2016), 545-54
- “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
- ‘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, edited by Andrew Johnston, Russell West Pavlov and Elizabeth Kempf (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016), 189-206
- “The Psalms and Threat in Sixteenth-Century English Court Culture,” Renaissance Studies 29 (2015), 576-94
- “Not Yet: Chaucer and Anagogy,” Biennial Lecture of the New Chaucer Society, Studies in the Age of Chaucer 37 (2015), 31-54
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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
- "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
- “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
- (Co-author and principal author) “The Teaching of the Arts and Humanities at Harvard College: Mapping the Future” (2013), at artsandhumanities.fas.harvard.edu/
- “Cognition is Recognition: Literary Knowledge and Textual ‘Face,’” New Literary History, 44 (2013): 25-44
- “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
- “No Brainer: The Early Modern Tragedy of Torture,” Religion and Literature, 43 (2011), 1-23
- “The Reformation of Scholarship: A Reply to Debora Shuger,” by The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 42 (2012), 249-68
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “’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
- ‘“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
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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)
- “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
- “John Lydgate,” in The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Literature, edited by Larry Scanlon (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), 205-16
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “Making History Whole: Diachronic History and the Shortcomings of Medieval Studies”, in e-Colloquia, 3 (2005)
- “Confessing Literature,” English Language Notes 44 (2006), 121-26
- “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
- “’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
- “Chaucer as a European Writer,” in The Yale Companion to Chaucer, ed. Seth Lerer (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005), 55-86
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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.
- “Pecock and Fortescue,” for A Companion to Middle English Prose, edited by A. S. G. Edwards (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2004), pp. 271-88
- “Martyrdom in the Literal Sense: Surrey’s Psalm Paraphrases,” Medieval and Early Modern English Studies (South Korea), 12 (2004), 133-165
- “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
- “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
- “Faith and Hermeneutics: Pragmatism versus Pragmatism,” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 33 (2003), 215-39
- “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
- “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
- “Grace Abounding: Evangelical Centralisation and the End of Piers Plowman,” Yearbook of Langland Studies, 14 (2000), 1-25
- “Bulldozing the Middle Ages: the Case of “John Lydgate,” New Medieval Literatures, 4 (2000), 213-42
- “Medieval Literature, Class 1,” in The Virtual Classroom, 2000
- “Contemporary English Writers,” in A Companion to Chaucer, edited by Peter Brown (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000), pp. 114-32
- “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
- “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
- “Breaking the Vacuum: Ricardian and Henrician Ovidianism,” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 29 (1999), 325-55
- “Ethics and Interpretation: Reading Wills in Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women,” Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 20 (1998), 73-100
- “Hoccleve,” “Usk” and “Beast Fable” entries for Medieval England: An Encyclopaedia, General Editor, Paul E. Szarmach (New York: Garland, 1998), 111-12
- “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
- “Ageism: Leland, Bale and the Laborious Start of English Literary History, 1350-1550,” New Medieval Literatures, 1 (1997), 213-35
- ““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
- “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
- “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
- ““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
- “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
- “The Information of Genius in Book III of the Confessio Amantis,” Mediaevalia, 16 (1993, for 1990), 159-95
- “’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
- “The Information of Alan of Lille’s Anticlaudianus: a Preposterous Interpretation,” Traditio 47 (1992), 113-160
- “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
- “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
- “Poetry as Knowledge: Dante’s Paradiso XIII,” Forum for Modern Language Studies, 25 (1989), 329-43
- “Ironic Incongruence in the Prologue and Book I of Gower’s Confessio Amantis,” Neophilologus, 72 (1988), 617-32
- “Spirituality and Economics in Passus I-VII of the B-Text of Piers Plowman,” The Yearbook of Langland Studies, 1 (1987), 83- 103
- “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
- “From Reason to Affective Knowledge: Modes of Thought and Poetic Form in Piers Plowman,” Medium Aevum, 55 (1986), 1-23
- “The Transformation of Meaning: a Figure of Thought in Piers Plowman,” Review of English Studies, n.s. 37 (1986), 1-23
- “Dante’s “Astripetam Aquilam” and the Theme of Poetic Discretion in the House of Fame,” Essays and Studies, n.s. 39 (1986), 1-18
- “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
- “Spiritual and Earthly Nobility in Piers Plowman,” Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 86 (1985), 467-81
Reviews
- Robert W. Hanning, Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Stories for an Uncertain World. Agency in the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2021), Le Moyen Age 130 (2024), 704-05
- Jill Mann, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, and David Lawton, ed The Norton Chaucer, Speculum 96 (2021), 791-94
- Robert Meyer-Lee, Literary Value and Social Identity in the “Canterbury Tales,” (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), JEGP 120 (2021), 426-27
- Early Modern English Literature and Religion, edited by Andrew Hiscock and Helen Wilcox (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), Renaissance Quarterly 71 (2018), 1585-86
- Margaret Aston, Broken Idols of the English Reformation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016), Material Religion 14 (2018), 263–264
- Medieval Shakespeare: Pasts and Presents, edited by Ruth Morse, Helen Cooper and Peter Holland (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England 28 (2015), 196-99
- William Kuskin, Recursive Origins: Writing at the Transition to Modernity (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013, Modern Philology 112 (2014), 35-7
- Rosemarie McGerr, A Lancastrian Mirror for Princes: The Yale Law School New Statutes of England. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2011, American Historical Review 118 (2013), 569-70
- Lee Patterson, Acts of Recognition, Essays on Medieval Culture (Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2010), Speculum 87 (2012), 268-70
- James Kearney, The Incarnate Text: Imagining the Book in Reformation England (Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press, 2009), forthcoming in Modern Philology 110 (2012)
- David Aers Sanctifying Signs: Making Christian Tradition in Late Medieval England (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004), and David Aers, Salvation and Sin: Augustine, Langland, and Fourteenth-Century Theology (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2009), Yearbook of Langland Studies, 24 (2011), 205-9
- Alastair Minnis, Translations of Authority in Medieval English Literature: Valuing the Vernacular (Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009), Notes and Queries (published online September 10, 2010)
- Bruce Gordon, Calvin (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009), Times Literary Supplement, December 18 and 25, 2009, 34
- J.A. Burrow,The Poetry of Praise (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), Notes and Queries, 56 (2009), 278-280
- John Bowers, Chaucer and Langland: The Antagonistic Tradition. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 30 (2008), 343-46
- Bruce Holsinger, The Premodern Condition: Medievalism and the Making of Theory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Speculum 82 (2006), 198-200
- Ralph Hanna, London Literature, 1300-1380, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xxi, 359, Studies in the Age of Chaucer 28 (2006), 290-93
- Ian Gadd and Alexandra Gillespie, eds., John Stow (1525-1605) and the Making of the English Past: Studies in Early Modern Culture and the History of the Book. (London: The British Library, 2004), Speculum 81 (2006), 849-50
- Ethan Knapp, The Bureaucratic Muse: Thomas Hoccleve and the Literature of Late Medieval England, in Studies in the Age of Chaucer 25 (2003), 394-97
- Russell A. Peck, ed. John Gower, Confessio Amantis, Speculum 76 (2001), 943-4
- Kathryn L. Lynch, Chaucer’s Philosophical Visions, Modern Language Review 98 (2003), 426-27
- John Scattergood, The Lost Tradition: Essays on Middle English Alliterative Poetry, Review of English Studies, forthcoming, 109-111
- David Wallace, ed. The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature, Medium Aevum 69 (2000), 127-30
- Theresa M. Krier, ed., Refiguring Chaucer in the Renaissance, Mediaevalia et Humanistica n.s. 26 (1999), 197-99
- Seth Lerer, Courtly Letters in the Age of Henry VIII: Literary Culture and the Arts of Deceit, Medium Aevum 68 (1999), 135-36
- Richard J. Utz, ed., Literary Nominalism and the Theory of Rereading Late Medieval Texts, Anglia (1999)
- Richard G. Newhauser and John Alford, eds., Literature and Religion in the Later Middle Ages: Philological Studies in Honor of Siegfried Wenzel, YLS, 11 (1997), 230-32
- J.A.Burrow, Thomas Hoccleve Medium Aevum 65 (1996), 179
- J.A. Burrow, Langland’s Fictions, Medium Aevum 63 (1994), 328-29
- Helen Barr, ed. The “Piers Plowman” Tradition, SAC 16 (1994), 150-52
- A.J. Minnis (ed.), Chaucer’s “Boece” and the Medieval Tradition of Boethius, Notes and Queries, n.s. 41 (1994), 544-45
- Piero Boitani and Anna Torti (eds.), Religion in the Poetry and Drama of the Late Middle Ages in England, Notes and Queries n.s. 40 (1993), 361-2
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