MLA Commons | LLC Middle English | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/ Activity feed for the group, LLC Middle English. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:27:03 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 834164ebffdea594bbe6c18bd750b9dd Ruen-chuan Ma started the topic Middle English Forum MLA 2027 Call-for-Papers in the forum LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/middle-english-forum-mla-2027-call-for-papers/ Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:30:27 -0500 The Middle English LLC executive committee invites submissions (due Monday, March 23, 2026) for the following sessions at MLA 2027 (Jan 7-10) in Los Angeles:

Centering New Discoveries
This roundtable invites short presentations (~8 minutes) centering under-discussed or unusual Middle English texts and texts relevant to research in Middle English.…[Read more]

]]> 0 c220504c8692d6573fd0571e7c8052e1 Ruen-chuan Ma started the topic Call for Candidates: Delegate to the MLA Assembly (2028-30) in the forum LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/call-for-candidates-delegate-to-the-mla-assembly-2028-30/ Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:16:05 -0500 The Executive Committee of the Middle English Forum welcomes nominations (including self-nominations) to serve as the forum delegate and represent the Forum at the MLA Delegate Assembly. Our forum will hold an election for its next delegate in Fall 2026, and an outline of delegate responsibilities can be found here. The delegate would serve a term…[Read more]

]]> 0 824aacc4a6b3121c5e73b6177ac5ecc7 Ruen-chuan Ma started the topic CFPs for MLA 2026 Middle English Forum sessions in the forum LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/cfps-for-mla-2026-middle-english-forum-sessions/ Sun, 09 Mar 2025 14:19:31 -0400 The Middle English LLC executive committee invites your submissions (due Friday, March 21, 2025) for the following sessions at MLA 2026 (Jan 8-11) in Toronto:

The Premodern Anthropocene (sponsored session)
The Middle English Forum proposes a panel considering human impacts upon the natural world in Medieval English literature. Potential topics…[Read more]

]]> 0 c65953aed23ae08144852197c4a289c6 Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic Middle English Sessions at MLA 2025 in the forum LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/middle-english-sessions-at-mla-2025/ Thu, 09 Jan 2025 17:00:41 -0500 Here are the two Middle English Forum sessions at this year’s MLA Convention:

167 – Unauthoring Middle English (LLC Middle English)

Thursday, 9 January 2025

7:00 PM – 8:15 PM

Hilton New Orleans Riverside – Port (Riverside Complex)

https://mla.confex.com/mla/2025/meetingapp.cgi/Session/20689

 

571 – Recovery and Cultures of Care in Middle…[Read more]

]]> 0 32adba8324f016087fa23fc548007dba Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic Nominations for Middle English Forum Executive Committee -- send them today! in the forum LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/nominations-for-middle-english-forum-executive-committee-send-them-today/ Thu, 09 Jan 2025 16:49:14 -0500 <span style=”font-family: ‘Times New Roman’,serif;”>The Executive Committee of the Middle English Forum would like to invite members of this forum to submit nominations for a new appointee to the forum EC! The term is five years, from January 2026 to January 2031. Only current MLA members are eligible for appointment. Candidates cannot already be…[Read more]

]]> 0 37536d2920b85a686807eaecedf4dd2c Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic Join the tabula gratulatoria for a festschrift for Karla Taylor! in the forum LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/join-the-tabula-gratulatoria-for-a-festschrift-for-karla-taylor/ Thu, 24 Oct 2024 20:26:39 -0400 Passing this along from Cathy Sanok and Elizabeth Allen:

We are delighted to announce that a festschrift honoring Karla Taylor as a scholar and teacher, Language, Linguistics and Middle English Literature, is forthcoming from Boydell and Brewer in March 2025. The essays explore and exemplify language-focused methods for studying medieval…[Read more]

]]> 0 ca3cc0293bf92c3c97099d336b3b6bb9 Martha Dana Rust started the topic CfP: Divergence and Interconnectivity: Premodernity in Five Objects in the forum LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/cfp-divergence-and-interconnectivity-premodernity-in-five-objects-4/ Fri, 23 Aug 2024 19:35:57 -0400 Medieval and Renaissance Center
New York University

Call for papers: New York University’s Medieval and Renaissance Center invites proposals for ten-minute papers for its annual conference to be held May 1-2 2025.

Divergence and Interconnectivity: Global Premodernity in Five Objects

Keynote speaker

Lia Markey, Director of the Center for R…[Read more]

]]> 0 5d543e2fb9d8fece20061fe121d214d3 Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic Info for MLA 2025 Middle English Forum Session "Unauthoring Middle English" in the discussion LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/info-for-mla-2025-middle-english-forum-session-unauthoring-middle-english/ Sat, 29 Jun 2024 17:22:11 -0400 This session addresses the following questions: What new perspectives and interpretive possibilities emerge if we embrace the anonymity of most Middle English manuscripts? What might be the critical utility of deferring recourse to an author? Panelists consider drama, lyric, narrative poetry, manuscript compilations, and their critical receptions.…[Read more]

]]> 0 65bb001ef913e15a3e8e7567305d37ff Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic CFPs for MLA 2025 Middle English Forum sessions in the discussion LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/cfps-for-mla-2025-middle-english-forum-sessions/ Fri, 23 Feb 2024 04:53:49 -0500 The Middle English LLC executive committee invites your submissions for the following two sponsored sessions at MLA 2025 in New Orleans:

Session 1: Recovery and Cultures of Care in Middle English Literature

This paper panel proposes to examine connections between ideas of recovery in Middle English literature, broadly speaking, and our current…[Read more]

]]> 0 df89fb2bcbddb3aa298e40c449ec93f5 Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic Call For Nominations for Middle English Forum Executive Committee, 2025-2030 in the discussion LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/call-for-nominations-for-middle-english-forum-executive-committee-2025-2030/ Mon, 18 Dec 2023 23:55:14 -0500 Dear MLA Middle English Forum members,

The Executive Committee of the Middle English Forum would like to invite members of the forum to submit nominations for a new appointee to the forum EC. The term is five years, from January 2025 to January 2030.  Only current MLA members are eligible for appointment. Candidates cannot already be serving on a…[Read more]

]]> 0 cd1c024b36befbcc0ad5f6c2b6dc4a01 Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic CFPs for MLA 2024 Middle English Forum sessions in the discussion LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/cfps-for-mla-2024-middle-english-forum-sessions/ Sat, 04 Feb 2023 22:34:33 -0500 Here are the CFPs for the Middle English Forum’s two sessions, along with a third that’s a collaborative session with the Chaucer Forum.

Adapting Middle English Literature

Organizers: Susan Nakley and Ruen-chuan Ma

This session invites us to consider how contemporary adaptations of Middle English literature contribute to the projects of…[Read more]

]]> 0 d382ebff75f06c07d7d8f88be9c712c4 Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic MLA 2023 Middle English Forum Convention Sessions and Call for Nominations in the discussion LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/mla-2023-middle-english-forum-convention-sessions-and-call-for-nominations/ Mon, 12 Dec 2022 02:46:40 -0500 Dear Middle English Forum members,

Below is the information for the three sessions that our forum is sponsoring or cosponsoring, with links to session abstracts.

We are also seeking nominations, including self-nominations, for appointment to the Middle English Forum Executive Committee. The term will be for five years, from January 2024 through…[Read more]

]]> 0 ecf4d1b1a62871bccfb90066ff8b6bf1 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2023-forum-delegate-election-19/ Mon, 21 Nov 2022 19:50:26 -0500 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

]]> 0 b78a06c344dea0bffe7038574992d01b Robert J. Meyer-Lee edited the doc Abstracts for 2023 MLA Session on Old English, Middle English, and Contemporary Trans Studies in the group LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1787806/ Tue, 19 Jul 2022 17:38:59 -0400 0 bf3e457d24983c73b2401cabc02979f8 Robert J. Meyer-Lee edited the doc Abstracts for 2023 MLA Session on Old English, Middle English, and Contemporary Trans Studies in the group LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1787591/ Mon, 18 Jul 2022 15:47:10 -0400 0 efcc78af451e73c0416e51f58a2469bd Robert J. Meyer-Lee edited the doc Abstracts for 2023 MLA Session on Middle English Encounters with Islamicate and Persianate Culture in the group LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1787576/ Mon, 18 Jul 2022 15:21:16 -0400 0 a3dbb3a4b8f405ed8b02dc8980d55e9f Martha Dana Rust started the topic CFP: Leaving Home, November 3-4 2022 (NYU) in the discussion LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/cfp-leaving-home-november-3-4-2022-nyu/ Tue, 21 Jun 2022 18:47:01 -0400 Medieval and Renaissance Center
New York University

Annual Conference
November 3-4 2022

Leaving Home

Keynote speakers
Daniel Jütte, NYU Department of History
Olenka Pevny: Cambridge University Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages

Call for papers: NYU’s Medieval and Renaissance Center invites proposals for papers for its annual conference to…[Read more]

]]> 0 54abaf88720a0864e6eed0e2e74242c2 Robert J. Meyer-Lee edited the doc Abstracts for 2023 MLA Session on Medieval Rebellion and Modern Insurrectionism in the group LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1776663/ Fri, 01 Apr 2022 16:55:44 -0400 0 bdd2d78b7676036b3fb60cacf39166f0 Robert J. Meyer-Lee created the doc Abstracts for 2023 MLA Session on Old English, Middle English, and Contemporary Trans Studies in the group LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1776621/ Fri, 01 Apr 2022 05:51:47 -0400 0 e5677239164402ce029683da6a234a58 Robert J. Meyer-Lee created the doc Abstracts for 2023 MLA Session on Medieval Rebellion and Modern Insurrectionism in the group LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1776618/ Fri, 01 Apr 2022 04:57:48 -0400 0 593dc15f442040772ed6012b8a4dbf1a Robert J. Meyer-Lee created the doc Abstracts for 2023 MLA Session on Middle English Encounters with Islamicate and Persianate Culture in the group LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1776440/ Thu, 31 Mar 2022 03:22:58 -0400 0 dcad5fef41fd57d42eb97877d5660c12 Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic CFP MLA 2023: Medieval Rebellion and Modern Insurrectionism in the discussion LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2023-medieval-rebellion-and-modern-insurrectionism/ Mon, 07 Mar 2022 18:18:32 -0500 Paul Megna’s paper for the Middle English Forum at MLA 2022 invoked a Public Books piece by Irina Dumitrescu in order to prompt contemporary medievalists to ponder the events of 1/6/2021. How might 1/6/2021 cause us to reconsider the scholarly lenses through which we have typically interpreted the events of Rising of 1381 and their literary ma…[Read more]

]]> 0 c43eb62bd58a8c5be0897094480b8e0b Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic CFP MLA 2023: Old English, Middle English, and Contemporary Trans Studies in the discussion LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2023-old-english-middle-english-and-contemporary-trans-studies/ Mon, 07 Mar 2022 18:11:55 -0500 Medieval studies is in a moment in which it is re-examining the long-held categories that have traditionally defined its boundaries. As this reconceptualization of the field progresses, Trans Studies offers a number of scholarly methodologies and insights that are changing the way medievalists consider their field and, more specifically, Trans…[Read more]

]]> 0 a1bd50a16c2c3b869b279e9ce119dee6 Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic CFP MLA 2023: Middle English Encounters with Islamicate and Persianate Cultures in the discussion LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2023-middle-english-encounters-with-islamicate-and-persianate-cultures/ Mon, 07 Mar 2022 18:07:19 -0500 This session seeks to build upon the growing appreciation for the complex and multifarious discursive engagements between late medieval English literary texts and Islamicate or Persianate culture, society, language, or literature. Recognizing that such engagements include much more than direct literary representations of the individual Islamicate…[Read more]

]]> 0 9b0a506ca41bcc28b06a45b9fbdc5233 Alex Mueller deposited Digitizing Chaucerian Debate in the group LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1760311/ Thu, 02 Dec 2021 02:26:38 -0500 To encourage classroom dialectic I often turn to the “quitting” structure of “The Canterbury Tales,” within which pilgrims offer requitals of previous tales that range from exuberant acclamations to
raucous attacks. Within these extremes lie productive forms of correction that emerge as subtle critiques, opposing arguments, and timely (or…[Read more]

]]> 0 f41352d51d18b44875d2a1795647fc0f Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic Bodleian Library Research Fellowships in the discussion LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/bodleian-library-research-fellowships/ Fri, 12 Nov 2021 02:42:01 -0500 In collaboration with the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford, the New Chaucer Society will support one or two one month (30 day) research visits by an early career scholar who is a member of the New Chaucer Society to the Special Collections of the Bodleian Library in the University of Oxford. Details here:…[Read more]

]]> 0 47d15d52d2c235e94f21b9d1e60bd3cd Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic MLA 2022 CFP: Remote Middle English 2: Present Negotiations with the Past in the discussion LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/mla-2022-cfp-remote-middle-english-2-present-negotiations-with-the-past/ Fri, 19 Feb 2021 15:49:44 -0500 Sequestered away from our institutions, colleagues, and students, and yet continuing to seek connections with them, many medievalists have no doubt registered the uncanny resemblance between the newly remote experiences of our work and the already pervasive perceptions of that work as remote, both within and without academe. On the one hand, we…[Read more]

]]> 0 6adcc2d051346a23f553af6ff8034de9 Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic New Chaucer Society: Call for Future Forward Session for summer Expo 2021 in the discussion LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/new-chaucer-society-call-for-future-forward-session-for-summer-expo-2021/ Thu, 21 Jan 2021 02:57:08 -0500 NCS Expo, Future Forward Call for Nominees, #NCSExpo2021

Organisers: Seeta Chaganti; Bobby Meyer-Lee; Emily Steiner.

Whether in the context of long-term social justice commitments or in response to shifts in global politics over the last few years, medievalists have found themselves facing questions about the relation – or lack thereof – betw…[Read more]

]]> 0 037031d3ea305deca733632f769260a5 Lisa H. Cooper replied to the topic Middle English Forum Sessions at MLA 2021 in the discussion LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/middle-english-forum-sessions-at-mla-2021/#post-1025332 Fri, 13 Nov 2020 16:49:34 -0500 For Session 660: Poetry and Pandemic: Medieval English Perspectives, please see the attached abstracts.

]]> 0 8079c1f0fddf87634ada97dce85e34e2 Lisa H. Cooper replied to the topic Middle English Forum Sessions at MLA 2021 in the discussion LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/middle-english-forum-sessions-at-mla-2021/#post-1025331 Fri, 13 Nov 2020 16:42:19 -0500 ABSTRACTS FOR: 660. Poetry and Pandemic: Medieval English Perspectives, Sunday, 10 January, 3:30-4:45 pm (jointly sponsored with GS Poetry and Poetics); Presider: Lisa H. Cooper, U of Wisconsin, Madison

1. “Plague and Post-trauma in Chaucer’s ‘First Fragment,’” David Coley, Simon Fraser U

Critics have long discerned what we might call post-tr…[Read more]

]]> 0 b8289d1f5101076d36620e4b327c8580 Lisa H. Cooper replied to the topic Middle English Forum Sessions at MLA 2021 in the discussion LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/middle-english-forum-sessions-at-mla-2021/#post-1025330 Fri, 13 Nov 2020 16:39:55 -0500 ABSTRACTS FOR: 660. Poetry and Pandemic: Medieval English Perspectives, Sunday, 10 January, 3:30-4:45 pm (jointly sponsored with GS Poetry and Poetics); Presider: Lisa H. Cooper, U of Wisconsin, Madison

1. “Plague and Post-trauma in Chaucer’s ‘First Fragment,’” David Coley, Simon Fraser U

Critics have long discerned what we might call post-tr…[Read more]

]]> 0 1a8cb38e62bfd382e1fe9fce469daf0e Lisa H. Cooper started the topic Middle English Forum Sessions at MLA 2021 in the discussion LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/middle-english-forum-sessions-at-mla-2021/ Fri, 13 Nov 2020 16:29:28 -0500 Please take note of the following sessions sponsored by the Middle English Forum at virtual MLA 2021!

205. Medieval Abstraction, Friday, 8 January, 10:15-11:30 am

Presider: Julie Orlemanski, U of Chicago

Speakers: Danielle Allor, Rutgers U, New Brunswick; Clint Morrison, Ohio State U, Columbus; Matthew Boyd Goldie, Rider U; Kellie Robertson, U…[Read more]

]]> 0 a95917fbd1ec2b43fa9360c61c39861b Eric Weiskott deposited Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350-1650 in the group LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1703161/ Tue, 28 Jul 2020 02:33:28 -0400 What would English literary history look like if the unit of measure were not the political reign but the poetic tradition? The earliest poems in English were written in alliterative verse, the meter of Beowulf. Alliterative meter preceded tetrameter, which first appeared in the twelfth century, and tetrameter in turn preceded pentameter, the…[Read more]

]]> 0 3880fd3056c8cf179b05880dd1a6be1f Lisa H. Cooper started the topic Call for Papers - Women & Language (Journal) in the discussion LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/call-for-papers-women-language-journal-3/ Wed, 27 May 2020 19:26:55 -0400 Dear colleagues, (apologies for previous multiple posts; a website glitch, now fixed), I have been asked to share this call for papers. You can also see it here: https://www.womenandlanguage.org/submissions

Call for Papers | Women & Language

Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University            

Women & Language, an internation…[Read more]

]]> 0 e1003912d50558a2a2dca59695995a4a Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2020 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2020-forum-delegate-election-21/ Thu, 19 Sep 2019 15:28:06 -0400 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2020, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2020 convention in Seattle. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]

]]> 0 2ad8322fdff719a142863f120b8c3a3f Melissa Ridley Elmes deposited Using Medieval-Themed Video Games and RPGs to Jumpstart Research-based and Student-centered Assignments in the group LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1634970/ Wed, 13 Mar 2019 03:52:18 -0400 A description of how I employ video games and RPGs, especially open-world online games, to harness student curiosity and foster an interest in research-based assignments in literature and humanities courses. Talk was presented to a K-16 audience with emphasis on K-12 teaching, but assignments work well at 9-12 and undergraduate university levels.

]]> 0 295cd3ac538934a39dcd81b8c91574fa Eric Weiskott deposited The Shapes of Early English Poetry: Style, Form, History in the group LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1634832/ Mon, 11 Mar 2019 16:31:41 -0400 This volume contributes to the study of early English poetics. In these essays, several related approaches and fields of study radiate outward from poetics, including stylistics, literary history, word studies, gender studies, metrics, and textual criticism. By combining and redirecting these traditional scholarly methods, as well as exploring…[Read more]

]]> 0 2a749debfda0684f57cf06c281e75e7f Susan M. Nakley deposited "Rowned She a Pistel": National Institutions and Identities According to Chaucer's Wife of Bath in the group LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1622019/ Thu, 25 Oct 2018 03:54:28 -0400 This article analyzes the politics of anachronism in Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Tale. It argues that the Wife of Bath counters the Man of Law’s descending model of sovereignty and regulation of feminine agency with a powerful heroine who wields ascending sovereignty. The Old Wife lives in her Arthurian present and its English future simul…[Read more]

]]> 0 13259da7625885d8111ec2cfd360a285 Susan M. Nakley started the topic MLA Committee Elections: LLC Middle English in the discussion LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/mla-committee-elections-llc-middle-english/ Wed, 24 Oct 2018 17:13:37 -0400 Hello, fellow Middle English Forum members! My name is Susan Nakley, and I am both honored and thrilled to be nominated for election to our forum’s executive committee. Currently, I am an Associate Professor and the Associate Chairperson in the English Department at St. Joseph’s College, New York, where I began teaching after defending my dis…[Read more]

]]> 0 837e3c41d466c6de39026ab9a9c13b5c Susan M. Nakley deposited On the Unruly Power of Pain in Middle English Drama in the group LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1621950/ Wed, 24 Oct 2018 16:32:02 -0400 Late medieval culture tends to value pain highly and positively. Accordingly, much medievalist scholarship links pain with fear and emphasizes their usefulness in the period’s philosophy, literature, visual art, and drama. Yet, key moments in The York Play of the Crucifixion, The Second Shepherds’ Play, and The Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge tro…[Read more]

]]> 0 b571b968442ec2e54f08d4cbfb7bd01e Tom White deposited Paper and Digital Ecologies in the Glastonbury Miscellany (Cambridge, Trinity College MS O.9.38) in the group LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1619310/ Thu, 27 Sep 2018 03:48:43 -0400 One of a number of leaves in the manuscript to have been badly damaged in the sixteenth century, folio 89 of the Glastonbury Miscellany reminds its modern readers of the fragmentary nature of the medieval textual record. Work began on this paper manuscript in the middle of the fifteenth century at Glastonbury Abbey. Transported to London in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 4fd9a6d516ea030b825deb2867a638ff Tom White deposited Written in Trees in the group LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1617016/ Thu, 30 Aug 2018 03:51:19 -0400 Seminar paper for ‘Translating the Nonhuman’, organised by Liam Lewis (University of Warwick) and Haylie Swenson (The George Washington University)

Seminar Abstract — This seminar invites participants to consider the connections created by translations of the nonhuman into human languages. To what extent is language the domain of the human,…[Read more]

]]> 0 675e027e8738b9f24b2d0e80fba506a7 Ian Cornelius deposited Reconstructing Alliterative Verse: The Pursuit of a Medieval Meter [abstract] in the group LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1598850/ Mon, 29 Jan 2018 03:51:19 -0500 A two-page abstract of the book.

]]> 0 437fb94be4313cee8e0220b9adba7f39 Eric Weiskott deposited English Political Prophecy in the Welsh Marches, 1450-1650 in the group LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1595551/ Mon, 08 Jan 2018 05:55:15 -0500 From the twelfth century to the seventeenth, political prophecy was prominent among English literary genres no less than in English political life. Derived from Welsh poetic tradition via Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Latin History of the Kings of Britain, prophecy reached all social classes. Prophetic texts influenced the decisions of kings, shaped p…[Read more]

]]> 0 d541f1f6db43457e9c43251d7ca6d3e8 Lisa H. Cooper started the topic Abstracts for MLA 2018 Session 247: Medieval Futures (Friday, 1/5, 10:30-11:15) in the discussion Middle English Language and Literature, Excluding Chaucer https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/abstracts-for-mla-2018-session-247-medieval-futures-friday-15-1030-1115/ Mon, 04 Dec 2017 02:16:07 -0500 MLA 2018 Session 247: Medieval Futures
Friday, January 5, 10:15-11:30 am, Murray Hill West, Hilton
Arranged by the forum LLC Middle English
Presiding: Lisa H. Cooper, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1) Fata Morgana Machines, Carolyn Dinshaw, NYU

Among the many curious capabilities of Arthurian enchanter Morgan le Fay is the conjuring of magic…[Read more]

]]> 0 3c758f25a93970bda2e45e093235bf54 Laurie Ringer deposited Excerpt: Concordance B in the group LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1589711/ Sun, 26 Nov 2017 05:38:30 -0500 Excerpt: Concordance B from L. Ringer, ‘A Select Concordance of Some 400 Middle English Texts: A Study of Wycliffite Discourse with Particular Discussion of the Issues of Contemporary Poverty, Pious Practice, Substantive Law, and Anticlerical Style’ (unpub. Ph.D. thesis, University of Hull, 2007, Supervisor: Veronica O’Mara).

]]> 0 45e0edb778198fef9213afe09da3a7cb Laurie Ringer deposited Excerpt: Concordance A in the group LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1589366/ Fri, 24 Nov 2017 05:38:30 -0500 Excerpt: Concordance A from L. Ringer, ‘A Select Concordance of Some 400 Middle English Texts: A Study of Wycliffite Discourse with Particular Discussion of the Issues of Contemporary Poverty, Pious Practice, Substantive Law, and Anticlerical Style’ (unpub. Ph.D. thesis, University of Hull, 2007, Supervisor: Veronica O’Mara).

]]> 0 b3edea9bcb35c296e6e29fcd98f87df1 Laurie Ringer deposited List of Texts for A Select Concordance of Some 400 Middle English Texts: A Study of Wycliffite Discourse in the group LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1586402/ Fri, 03 Nov 2017 00:59:20 -0400 List of Texts for A Select Concordance of Some 400 Middle English Texts: A Study of Wycliffite Discourse with Particular Discussion of the Issues of Contemporary Poverty, Pious Practice, Substantive Law, and Anticlerical Style’ (unpub. Ph.D. thesis, University of Hull, 2007).

]]> 0 f33655525c09913ab9808d712912e300 Thomas GOODMANN posted an update in the group LLC Middle English: I am very glad to be asked to stand as a candidate for the […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1585990/ Sat, 28 Oct 2017 16:31:14 -0400 I am very glad to be asked to stand as a candidate for the executive committee of this forum. A faculty member in English at the University of Miami, I am the editor of Approaches to Teaching Langland’s Piers Plowman (forthcoming from MLA Publications) and am co-hosting with Heather Blatt of Florida International University the 2019 meeting of t…[Read more]

]]> 0 68ad2ab293e7e6ba8687007efa68c05a Alex Mueller deposited The Nun's Priest's Tale: Entertainment versus Education in the group LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1585712/ Wed, 25 Oct 2017 20:14:17 -0400 This essay is part of a collection of open access articles on Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The articles are written for first-time readers of Chaucer and are designed to supplement the teaching of the Canterbury Tales, particularly in university classrooms.

My contribution is focused on the Nun’s Priest’s Tale, providing an…[Read more]

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