Introduction: The Form of Thought
Jennifer Jahner (Caltech) and Ingrid Nelson (Amherst College)
Part 1: Form and Knowing
- Chaucerian Insomnia and the Hospitality of Sleeplessness in Late Medieval Dream Visions
Jamie Taylor (Bryn Mawr College)
- Cloudy Thoughts: Cognition and Affect in Troilus and Criseyde
Stephanie Trigg (University of Melbourne)
- Voluntarism and the Self in Piers Plowman
Robert Pasnau (University of Colorado, Boulder)
- Margery Kempe and the Paradoxical Presence of God
Kate Crassons (Lehigh University)
Part 2: Material Poetics
- Both ‘Gostly Sense’ and ‘Amerouse Sentensce’: The Nightingale’s Resurrection as Hybrid Text
Amy N. Vines (University of North Carolina, Greensboro)
- Middle English Verse Acrostics: A Survey
Julia Boffey (Queen Mary University) and A.S.G. Edwards (University of Kent)
- The Landscapes of Pearl: Poetry and Theology
Ad Putter (University of Bristol)
Part 3: Historicizing Gender
- Disrupting Medieval Marriage in Anglo-Norman Women’s Writing: Clemence Barking’s Vie de Sainte Catherine, Marie’s Life of Saint Audrey and Marie de France’s Eliduc
Roberta Krueger (Hamilton College)
- Three Medieval Visitors to Rome and the Women They Found There
C. David Benson (University of Connecticut, Storrs, emeritus) and Pamela J. Benson (University of Connecticut, Storrs, emerita)
- The Anagogic Wife of Bath
James Simpson (Harvard University)