New Medieval Literatures Volume III

New Medieval Literatures is an annual containing the best new interdisciplinary work in medieval textual cultures. Volume 3 combines important work by established scholars with the results of the editors' quest for major new voices, including the prize-winning essay in their first competition for younger scholars. The themes of the volume are the production of knowledge and text, cultural change and exchange, from early medieval China to fifteenth-century England. There are also paired and contrasting essays on Dante and on Langland. The volume ends with Sarah Kay's important survey of modern medievalist scholarship, the New Philology.

New Medieval Literatures is an annual of work on medieval textual cultures. It provides a venue for innovative essays that deploy diverse methodologies–theoretical, archival, philological and historicist. The editors, active in three continents and supported by a distinguished multidisciplinary Advisory Board, aim to engage with intellectual and cultural pluralism in the Middle Ages and now.

David Lawton: Introduction: Production, Place, and Fantasy; David Wallace: Dante in Somerset: Ghosts, Historiography, Periodization; Helen Cooper: The Four Last Things in Dante and Chaucer: Ugolino in the House of Rumour; Kathy Lavezzo: Another Country: AElfric and the Production of English Identity; Alfred Hiatt: Forgery at the University of Cambridge; Scott-Morgan Straker: Rivalry and Reciprocity in Lydgate's Troy Book; William Kuskin: Reading Caxton: Transformations in Capital, Authority, Prints, and Persona in the Late Fifteenth Century; Nicolette Zeeman: 'Studying' in the Middle AgesDSand in Piers Plowman ; Ralph Hanna III: School and Scorn: Gender in Piers Plowman ; Miranda Griffin: Dirty Stories: Abjection in the Fabliaux; Anne Birrell: Panoptican in her Bedroom: Voyeurism and the Concept of Space in the Love Lyrics of Early Medieval China; Sarah Kay: Analytical Survery 3: The New Philology; Index

David Lawton is Professor of English Literature, Washington University, St Louis