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Chaucer’s Ethical Philosophy

January 2025
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Book
47 Language, Communication and Culture, 50 Philosophy and Religious Studies, 4705 Literary Studies

Review: How to Read Middle English Poetry, by Daniel Sawyer

June 2024
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Journal article
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English Studies

‘“Troilus can afford to fall in love ... with whomsoever he will”: Free Will and Recognition in Troilus and Criseyde’

March 2024
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Chapter
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Form and Power in Medieval and Early Modern Literature: A Book for James Simpson

Historical and Political Changes

May 2023
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Chapter
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The Oxford History of Poetry in English
43 History, Heritage and Archaeology, 47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4303 Historical Studies, 4705 Literary Studies

Mark Faulkner. A New Literary History of the Long Twelfth Century: Language and Literature between Old and Middle English

March 2023
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Journal article
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Review of English Studies

Historical and Political Changes: The Norman Conquest to the Hundred Years’ War

January 2023
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Chapter
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The Oxford History of Poetry in English: Medieval Poetry: 1100-1400: Volume 2
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"For Love and For Lovers" The Origins of Romance

January 2023
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NEW CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO MEDIEVAL ROMANCE

‘The Norman Rule’

December 2022
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Chapter
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The Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature
Utilising a Trans-European context, this volume includes essays from leading academics in the field across linguistic and geographic divides.
Literary Criticism

New Medieval Literatures 22

March 2022
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Edited book

'"All this will not comfort me": Romancing the Ballad in The Squire of Low Degree'

January 2022
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Chapter
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Cultural Translations in Medieval Romance
New approaches to this most fluid of medieval genres, considering in particular its reception and transmission.

English

January 2022
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Chapter
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LITERARY BEGINNINGS IN THE EUROPEAN MIDDLE AGES

Conquests in Eleventh-Century England: 1016, 1066

June 2020
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Edited book
The cataclysmic conquests of the eleventh century are here set together for the first time.
History

How to read both: The logic of true contradictions in Chaucer’s World

January 2020
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Journal article
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Studies in the Age of Chaucer
© 2020 The New Chaucer Society This essay argues that medieval culture is characterized by a commitment to mutually exclusive truths, despite upholding the fundamental principle of Aristotelian logic that there can be no true contradictions. The possibility of true contradiction, known to modern philosophy as dialetheism, is explored in Troilus and Criseyde, Pearl, and Piers Plowman; in contrast, Chaucer’s Pardoner is discussed as an example of lived contradiction that manifests as incoherence. The law of noncontradiction is still regarded as fundamental in philosophy, despite some celebrated challenges: Hegel’s famous insistence on the contradictory nature of all things is here used to illuminate the logical difficulties created by the ineffable nature of the Trinity. Medieval theologians such as Duns Scotus, William of Ockham, Robert Holcot, and others, were faced with a particularly acute epistemological crisis as they struggled to formulate theories that could reconcile the universality of logic (without which all rational inquiry was threatened) with the unique contradictions of triune divinity. Finally, the inevitable existence of moral dialetheias, in life and in fiction, is explored in the emergence of the romance, first in the illusory moral dilemmas of Chrétien’s romances, and then in the real moral crisis suffered by Thomas of Britain’s Tristan. It is argued in conclusion that fiction is the prime tool for the examination of true contradiction, being in itself a lie of profound moral necessity.

The curelesse wound: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, and the Poetry of Blood

June 2019
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Chapter
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Manuscript and Print in Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain: Essays in Honour of Professor Julia Boffey

Medieval and Early Modern Religious Cultures Essays Honouring Vincent Gillespie on His Sixty-Fifth Birthday

April 2019
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Edited book
New approaches to religious texts from the Middle Ages, highlighting their diversity and sophistication.
Literary Criticism

The originality of the Orrmulum

January 2019
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Journal article
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Early Middle English
twelfth century, vernacular preaching, Orm, Orrmulum, purgatory, Ormulum, Augustinian canons, homilies, exegesis, Orrm

England in Europe. English Royal Women and Literary Patronage, c. 1000-c. 1150

April 2018
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Journal article
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JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES

Sin, interiority, and selfhood in the twelfth-century West. By Susan R. Kramer. (Studies and Texts, 200.) Pp. xii + 171. Toronto, On: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2015. $80. 978 0 88844 200 0

April 2018
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Journal article
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The Journal of Ecclesiastical History
5004 Religious Studies, 50 Philosophy and Religious Studies

New Medieval Literatures 18

February 2018
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Edited book
"An invigorating annual for those who are interested in medieval textual cultures and open to ways in which diverse post-modern methodologies may be applied to them." Alcuin Blamires, Review of English Studies
Archaeology, Medieval

The Oxford English Literary History Volume 1: 1000-1350: Conquest and Transformation

September 2017
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Book
This volume explores the vast cultural, literary, social, and political transformations which characterized the period 1000-1350.
Literary Criticism

GEOFFREY CHAUCER A new introduction

January 2017
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Journal article
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TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

The Auchinleck Manuscript: New Perspectives ed. by Susanna Fein (review)

January 2017
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Journal article
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Arthuriana
47 Language, Communication and Culture, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology, 36 Creative Arts and Writing

Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , ed. P. J. C. Field. 2 vols. (Arthurian Studies 80.) Cambridge, UK, and Rochester, NY: D. S. Brewer, 2013. Pp. xliii, 940 (1); xxxi, 988 (2). $340. ISBN: 978-1-84384-314-6.

July 2016
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Journal article
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Speculum
4404 Development Studies, 44 Human Society

John Ford, ed., Anglo-Norman Amys e Amilioun: The Text of Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek, Ms. 345 (olim Codex Durlac 38) in Parallel with London, British Library, MS Royal 12 C. XII . (Medium Aevum Monographs 27.) Ox...

April 2016
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Journal article
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Speculum
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology, 44 Human Society

New Medieval Literatures 16

March 2016
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Edited book
Wendy Scase, University of Birmingham New Medieval Literatures is an annual of work on medieval textual cultures. Its scope is inclusive of work across the theoretical, archival, philological, and historicist methodologies associated with ...
Literary Criticism

Richard II

January 2016
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Book

Early Fiction in England: From Geoffrey of Monmouth to Chaucer

September 2015
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Book

1155 and the Beginnings of Fiction

January 2015
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Journal article
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History Today

The Ideal of Knighthood in English and French Writing, 1100–1230: Crusade, Piety, Chivalry and Patriotism

June 2014
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Chapter
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Writing the Early Crusades: Text, Transmission and Memory
SBTMR

Elisabeth Salter and Helen Wicker, eds., Vernacularity in England and Wales, c. 1300–1550 . (Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy 17.) Turnhout: Brepols, 2011. Pp. vi, 335; black-and-white figures and 1 table. €70. ISBN: 9782503528830.

January 2014
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Journal article
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Speculum
36 Creative Arts and Writing, 3601 Art History, Theory and Criticism, 44 Human Society

War and Literature

January 2014
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Edited book
Considerations of writing about war, in war, because of war, and against war, in a wide range of texts from the middle ages onwards.
Literary Criticism

The True Chronicles of Jean le Bel, 1290–1360. Translated by Nigel Bryant. Boydell. 2011. xxii + 271pp. £60.00.

December 2013
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Journal article
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History
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology

Reversing Babel: Translation among the English during an Age of Conquests, c. 800 to c. 1200. By Bruce R. O'Brien. University of Delaware Press. 2011. xx + 289pp. £44.95.

April 2013
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Journal article
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History
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology

Language

March 2013
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Chapter
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A Handbook of Middle English Studies
47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4704 Linguistics

Holinshed and Mythical History

December 2012
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Chapter
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The Oxford Handbook of Holinshed's Chronicles

The Anomalous King of Conquered England

October 2012
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Chapter
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Every Inch a King: Comparative Studies on Kings and Kingship in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds

ANGLO-SAXON KEYWORDS

January 2012
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Journal article
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TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

ARTHURIAN LITERATURE 28 Blood, sex, Malory - Essays on "The Morte Darthur"

January 2012
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Journal article
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TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

Harold Godwineson

January 2012
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Chapter
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Medieval Heroes and Anti-Heroes

Geffrei Gaimar: Estoire des Engleis (History of the English), ed. and tr. Ian Short

February 2011
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Journal article
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The English Historical Review
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology

Mutatio dexterae Excelsi: Narratives of Transformation after the Conquest

January 2011
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Journal article
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Journal of English and Germanic Philology

Writing to the King: Nation, Kingship, and Literature in England, 1250-1350

January 2011
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Journal article
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MEDIUM AEVUM

The Written World: Past and Place in the Work of Orderic Vitalis

October 2010
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Journal article
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The Journal of English and Germanic Philology
47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4705 Literary Studies

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Limits of Chivalry

January 2010
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Chapter
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The Exploitations of Medieval Romance

The Exploitations of Medieval Romance

January 2010
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Edited book
Important and wide-ranging studies of the ideological exploitations performed by and upon the medieval romance.
Literary Criticism

The Written World: Past and Place in the Work of Orderic Vitalis (review)

January 2010
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Journal article
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The Journal of English and Germanic Philology
47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4705 Literary Studies

jane bliss. Naming and Namelessness in Medieval Romance.

April 2009
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The Review of English Studies
47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4703 Language Studies, 4705 Literary Studies

The Hero and his Realm in Medieval English Romance

January 2008
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Chapter
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Boundaries in Medieval Romance

The Sea and Medieval English Literature

January 2008
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Journal article
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MEDIUM AEVUM

William Marshal, Lancelot, and Arthur

January 2008
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Journal article
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Anglo-Norman Studies

Fiction and History in England, 1066-1200

January 2007
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Book

Reading like a clerk in The Clerk's Tale

September 2006
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Journal article
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Modern Language Review

The Meaning of Suffering: Symbolism and anti-symbolism in the death of Tristan

June 2006
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Chapter
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Writers of the reign of Henry II: Twelve Essays

‘Exile‐and‐return’ and English Law: The Anglo‐Saxon Inheritance of Insular Romance

May 2006
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Journal article
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Literature Compass
47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4705 Literary Studies

The Short Charter of Christ: an unpublished longer version, from Cambridge University Library, MS. Add. 6686

January 2003
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Journal article
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Medium Aevum

'A Prayer and a Warcry' The Creation of a Secular Religion inthe Song of Roland

April 1999
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Journal article
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The Cambridge Quarterly
47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4705 Literary Studies