Books

2022

Balaam’s Ass: Vernacular Theology Before the English Reformation, Volume 1: Frameworks, Arguments, English to 1250. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. xxiv + 588 pp.

What Kind of a Thing is a Middle English Lyric?, with Cristina Maria Cervone. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. xiv + 526 pp., with 29 figures and plates.

The Practics and Politics of Reading, 650-1500, with Daniel Donoghue, James Simpson, and Anna Wilson. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2022. xiv + 339 pp., with twelve figures and plates.

2015

John of Morigny, Liber florum celestis doctrine / The Flowers of Heavenly Teaching: An Edition and Commentary, with Claire Fanger. Studies and Texts 199. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2015. xxii, 632 pp., plus 8 colour plates.

2014

Truth and Tales: Cultural Mobility and Medieval Media, with Fiona Somerset. Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2014. xiv + 292 pp.

2011

Studies in Middle English Literature in Honor of David Benson, with Daniel Donoghue, Susanna Fein, David Raybin, and James Simpson. Special issue of Chaucer Review: A Journal of Literary Criticism. University Park: Penn State Press, 2011. x + 327 pp.

2009

The Morton W. Bloomfield Lectures, 1989-2005, with Daniel Donoghue and James Simpson. Kalamazoo, MI: Western Michigan University Press, 2009. x + 273 pp.

2006

The Writings of Julian of Norwich: “A Vision Showed to a Devout Woman” and “A Revelation of Love,” with Jacqueline Jenkins. University Park: Penn State Press/ Brepols: Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts, 2006. xi + 476 pp.

2004

The Vulgar Tongue: Medieval and Postmedieval Vernacularities, with Fiona Somerset. University Park: Penn State Press, 2004. xvi + 277 pp.

1999

The Idea of the Vernacular: An Anthology of Literary Theory, 1280-1530, with Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Ruth Evans, Andrew Taylor. University Park: Penn State Press; Exeter: Exeter University Press, 1999. xviii + 506 pp.

1995

Richard Rolle: Emendatio vitae, Orationes ad honorem nominis Ihesu. Toronto Medieval Latin Texts 21. Toronto: Centre for Medieval Studies/ Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1995. viii + 88 pp.

1991

Richard Rolle and the Invention of Authority. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 13. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xiii + 358 pp.

Anchoritic Spirituality: Ancrene Wisse and Associated Texts, with Anne Savage. The Classics of Western Spirituality. Mahwah, N.J.: Paulist Press, 1991. xi + 487 pp.