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 1987

  • “The Methods and Objectives of Thirteenth-Century Anchoritic Devotion.” In The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England: Exeter Symposium IV, Dartington 1987, ed. Marion Glasscoe. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1987. pp. 132-53.

1989

  • “Richard Rolle as Elitist and as Popularist: the Case of Judica Me.” In De Cella in Saeculo: Religious and Secular Life and Devotion in Late Medieval England, ed. Michael Sargent. Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 1989. pp. 123-44.

1991

  • “Translation and Self-Canonization in Richard Rolle’s Melos Amoris.” In The Medieval Translator: the Theory and Practice of Translation in the Middle Ages: Papers read at a Conference Held on 20-23 August 1987 at the University of Wales Conference Centre, Gregynog, ed. Roger Ellis. Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 1989. pp. 167-81.
  • “Misrepresenting the Untranslatable: Marguerite Porete and the Mirouer des simples ames.” New Directions 12 (1991). pp. 124-37,

1992

  • “The Trinitarian Hermeneutic in Julian of Norwich’s Revelation of Love.” In The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England: Exeter Symposium V, Darlington 1991, edited by Marian Glasscoe. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1992. pp. 78-100 (Reprinted in Julian of Norwich: A Book of Essays, ed. Sandra McEntire. New York: Garland, 1998. pp. 180-204).

1993

  • “The Composition of Julian of Norwich’s Revelation of Love.” Speculum 68 (1993). pp. 637-86.

1994

  • “Outdoing Chaucer: Lydgate’s Troy Book and Henryson’s Testament of Cresseid as Competitive Imitations of Troilus and Criseyde.” In Shifts and Transpositions in Mediaeval Narrative: A Festschrift for Elspeth Kennedy, ed. Karen Pratt. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1994. pp. 89-108.

1995

  • “Censorship and Cultural Change in Late Medieval England: Vernacular Theology, The Oxford Translation Debate, and Arundel’s Constitutions of 1409.” Speculum 70 (1995). pp. 822-65.

1996

  • “‘Yf Wommen Be Double Naturelly’: Remaking ‘Woman’ in Julian of Norwich's Revelation of Love.” Exemplaria 8 (1996). pp. 1-34.

1997

  • “Visions of Inclusion: Universal Salvation and Vernacular Theology in PreReformation England.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 27 (1997), special issue From Medieval Christianities to the Reformations, ed. David Aers.. pp. 145-88.
  • “Conceptions of the Word: The Mother Tongue and the Incarnation of God.” New Medieval Literatures 1 (1997). pp. 85-124.
  • “The Gawain-poet as Vernacular Theologian.” In A Guide to the “Gawain”-Poet, ed. Derek Brewer. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1997. pp. 180-200.
  • “Melting into God the English Way: Deification in the Middle English Translation of Marguerite Porete’s Mirror of Simple Souls.” In Prophets Abroad: Continental Women Visionaries in Medieval England, ed. Rosalynn Voaden. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1997. pp. 19-49.

1998

  • “John the Monk's Book of the Visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary: Two Versions of a Newly Discovered Ritual Magic Text.” In Conjuring Spirits: Ritual Magic in the Later Middle Ages, ed. Claire Fanger. Magic in History. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Alan Sutton / University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. pp. 163-215.

1999

  • “The Middle English Mystics.” In The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature, ed. David Wallace. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. pp. 539-65.
  • “The Politics of English Writing.” In The Idea of the Vernacular (see Books, 1999), pp. 331-53.
  • “The Notion of Vernacular Theory,” with Wogan-Browne, Taylor, Evans, in The Idea of the Vernacular (see Books, 1999), pp. 314-30.
  • “Desire for the Past.” Studies in the Age of Chaucer 21 (1999). pp. 59-98 (Reprinted with an afterword in Maitresse of My Wit: Medieval Women, Modern Scholars, ed. Louise D’Arcens and Juanita Feros Ruys. Making the Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, 2004. pp. 149-90.

2000

  • “Fashioning the Puritan Gentry-woman: Devotion and Dissent in A Book to a Mother.” In Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts in Late Medieval Britain: Essays for Felicity Riddy, ed. Jocelyn Wogan-Browne et al. Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts 3. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2000. pp. 169-84.
  • “Christian Ideologies.” In A Companion to Chaucer Studies, ed. Peter Brown. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000. pp. 75-89.

2001

  • “The Prologue to John of Morigny’s Liber visionum: Text and Translation,” with Claire Fanger. Esoterica 3 (2001). pp. 108-217.

2002

  • “Et que est huius ydoli materia? Tuipse! Idols and Images in Walter Hilton.” In Images, Idolatry, and Iconoclasm in Late Medieval England: Textuality and the Visual, ed. Jeremy Dimmick, James Simpson, and Nicolette Zeeman. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002. pp. 95-111.
  • “Response: The Monstrosity of the Moral Pig, and Other Unnatural Ruminations.” In Consuming Narratives: Gender and Monstrous Appetite in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, ed. Liz McAvoy and Teresa Walters (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2002). pp. 1-18.

2003

  • “With the Heat of the Hungry Heart: Empowerment and Ancrene Wisse.” In Gendering the Master Narrative: Women and Power in the Middle Ages, ed. Mary C. Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003. pp. 52-70.
  • “Julian of Norwich.” In A Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women’s Writing, ed. Carolyn Dinshaw and David Wallace (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003). pp. 80-100.
  • “Ancrene Wisse, Religious Reform, and the Late Middle Ages.” In A Companion to “Ancrene Wisse,” ed. Yoko Wada (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2003). pp. 197-226.
  • “Vernacular Apocalyptic: On The Lanterne of Light.” Revista Canaria de estudios Ingleses 47 (2003), Sección Monográfica, Medieval Literacy: Linguistic Evidence and Literary Achievement. pp. 115-28.

2004

  • “Introduction: King Solomon’s Tablets.” In The Vulgar Tongue (see Books, 2004). pp. 1-18.
  • “The French of England: the Compileison, Ancrene Wisse, and the Idea of Anglo-Norman,” with Jocelyn Wogan-Browne. Journal of Romance Studies 4 (2004). pp. 35-59.

2005

  • “Chaucer’s Public Christianity.” Religion and Literature 37 (2005). pp. 1-18.
  • “The Making of The Book of Margery Kempe.” In Voices in Dialogue: Reading Women in the Middle Ages, ed. Linda Olson and Kathryn Kerby-Fulton (Notre-Dame: University of Notre-Dame Press, 2005). pp. 395-434 (with response by Felicity Riddy and co-written afterword, pp. 454-58).

2006

  • “Cultural Changes.” English Language Notes 44 (2006), “The Religious Turn,” edited by Bruce Holsinger. pp. 127-37 (Response to special cluster of articles discussing “Censorship and Cultural Change” (1995), ed. Elizabeth Robertson).
  • Two essays, “Richard Rolle” and “Medieval Devotional Prose,” for The Oxford Encyclopedia of English Literature (New York: Oxford University Press 2006).

2007

  • “Chaucer and Langland.” In The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature, ed. Andrew Hass, David Jasper, and Elisabeth Jay (Blackwell: Oxford University Press, 2007). pp. 363-89.
  • “Piers Plowman, Pastoral Theology, and Spiritual Perfectionism: Hawkyn’s Coat and Patience’s Pater Noster.” Yearbook of Langland Studies 21 (2007). pp. 83-118.

2008

  • “Medieval Translation in Theory.” In The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English, vol. 1, ed. Roger Ellis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). 2007. pp. 71-92.
  • “Partial Truths: Julian of Norwich as a Vernacular Intellectual.” In Thou Sittest At Another Boke: English Studies in Honour of Domenico Pezzini, ed. Giovanna Imaratino, et al. (Milano: Polimetrica, 2008). pp. 263-88.
  • “Towards A History of Tolerance.” Benall Lectures in Christian Theology. Online at (http://www.ucalgary.ca/christchair/files/christchair/Towards%20a%20Histo...) 2008. pp. 1-18.

2009

  • “Lollardy: the Anglo-Norman Heresy?” in Language and Culture in Medieval Britain: The French of England, c.1100-c.1500, ed. Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2009). pp. 334-46.
  • “Middle English Versions and Audiences of Edmund of Abingdon’s Speculum religiosorum.” In Texts and Traditions of Medieval Pastoral Care: Essays In Honour of Bella Millett, ed. Kate Gunn and Catherine Innes-Parker, York Medieval Publications (Cambridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2009). pp. 115-31.
  • “Afterword: On Eise.” In The Milieu and the Context of the Wooing Group, ed. Susannah Chewning, Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages (Aberystwyth: University of Wales Press, 2009). pp. 131-51.

2010

  • “Despair.” In Cultural Reformations: Medieval and Renaissance, ed. Brian Cummings and James Simpson, Twenty-First Century Approaches 2 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010). pp. 342-60.
  • “The Phantasmal Past: Time, History, and the Recombinative Imagination.” Studies in the Age of Chaucer 32 (2010). pp. 1-37.

2011

  • “Introduction.” In The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Mysticism, ed. Samuel Fanous and Vincent Gillespie (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011). pp. 1-28.
  • “Response: ‘A Clerk Shulde Have it of Kinde to Kepe Counsell.” In After Arundel: Religious Writing in Fifteenth-Century England, ed. Vincent Gillespie and Kantik Ghosh (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2011). pp. 475-500 (Essays in response to “Censorship and Cultural Change” (1995).
  • “Merchant Religiosity in Fifteenth-Century London: The Case of William Litchfield,” with Amy Appleford. Chaucer Review 46 (2011)/ Studies in Middle English Literature (see Books, 2011). pp. 203-22.

2012

  • “The Idea of Latinity.” In The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Latin Literature, ed. Ralph Hexter and David Townsend (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012). pp. 124-48.

2014

2017

  • “William Langland reads Robert Grosseteste.” In The French of Medieval England: Essays in Honor of Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, ed. Thelma Fenster and Carlyn Collette (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2017). pp. 140-56.

2018

  • “Piers Plowman as Theology: Pedagogy, Politics, Pastness.” In Approaches to Teaching Piers Plowman, ed. Thomas Goodman, PMLA publications (New York: PMLA, 2018). pp. 79-87.
  • “John of Morigny,” with Claire Fanger. In The Ashgate Research Companion to Medieval Magic, ed. Sophie Page and Catherine Rider (Ashgate: Farnham, 2018). pp. 212-24.

2019

  • “The Original Audience and Institutional Setting of Edmund Rich’s Mirror of Holy Church: The Case for the Salisbury Canons.” In Medieval and Early Modern Religious Culture: Essays Honouring Vincent Gillespie on his 65th Birthday, ed. Laura Ashe and Ralph Hanna (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2019). pp. 21-42.
  • “Religion.” In A New Companion to Chaucer Studies, ed. Peter Brown (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2019), pp. 344-58 (revised version of “Christian Ideologies,” 2000).

2020

  • “The Visions, Experiments, and Operations of Bridget of Autruy (fl. 1305–15).” In Women Intellectuals and Leaders in the Middle Ages, ed. Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Kate Anne-Marie Bugyis and John Van Engen (Cambridge: D. S Brewer, 2020). pp. 191-212.
  • “Preface to Part IV: Methodological Innovations for the Study of Women’s Authorship and Agency.” In ibid. pp. 213-16.

2021

  • “The Terminology and Ethos of Vernacular Compilation.” In Late Medieval Devotional Compilations in England, ed. Mareen Cré, Diana Denissen, and Denis Renevey (Turnhout: Brepols, 2021), pp. 435-55.

2022

  • “Introduction. Why stonde we? why go we noȝt?” with Cristina Maria Cervone. In What Kind of A Thing? (Books, 2022). pp. 1-30.
  • “Introduction,” with Daniel Donoghue, James Simpson, and Anna Wilson. In Practices and Politics (see Books, 2022). pp. 1-20.
  • “‘Latin’ and ‘Vernacular’: Early European Language Politics.” PMLA 137.5 (2022), cluster on Monolingualism and Its Discontents, ed. Christopher Cannon and Susan Koshy. pp. 861-70.

         In Progress

  • “English Pastoral Theology Around the Fourth Lateran Council.” For High Medieval: Literary Cultures in England, ed. Elizabeth Tyler and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne. Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches. 7000 words.
  • “Afterword: The Nightingale and the Cuckoo.” Cluster on Richard Rolle, edited by Andrew Albin and Andrew Kraebel. Speculum, 2023.
  • “‘Sixteen Shewinges’: The Composition of Julian of Norwich’s Revelation of Love Revisited.” For a festschrift volume. Brepols, 2023.
  • “Vernacular Textuality in Thirteenth-Century England: the Ancrene Wisse Group Revisited.” For a festschrift volume. D. S. Brewer, 2023.
  • Further essays on Middle English Sermons, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, and the Peines de Purgatorie.