Publications

A sample selection of recent publications from Virginia’s medievalists.

Podcasts

Elizabeth Fowler, professor of medieval and Renaissance literature at the University of Virginia, can he heard discussing Gawain and the Green Knight and the recent translation of Simon Armitage on NPR here.

Books

G. Heldt, The Pursuit of Harmony: Poety and Power in Late Heian Japan (Cornell East Asia Series, 2009).

D. Osheim, Sharon Dale, Alison Williams , eds Chronicling History: Choniclers and Historians in Medieval and Renaissance Italy (University Park PA, 2008).

B. Holsinger, Neomedievalism, Neoconservatism, and the War on Terror (Prickly Paradigm/University of Chicago Press, 2007).

A. Thompson, Cities of God: The Religion of the Italian Communes, 1125-1325. (University Park PA, 2005). 

Articles

• P. Baker, ‘The Old English Language’, in R. North and J. Allard, eds, Beowulf and Other Stories (London, 2007), pp. 272–300.
• P. Baker, “Typing in Old English Since 1967: A Brief History,” Old English Newsletter 40.1 (2007). Online here.
• G. Hays, ‘Further Notes on Fulgentius’, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 103 (2007), pp. 483-498.
• B. Holsinger, ‘The Parable of Caedmon’s Hymn: Liturgical Invention and Literary Tradition’, Journal of English and Germanic Philology 106 (2007), pp. 149-70.
• B. Holsinger, ‘Liturgy’, in P. Strohm, ed., 21st-Century Approaches to Literature: Middle English  (Oxford, 2007).
• P. J. E. Kershaw, ‘English History and Irish Readers in the Frankish World’, in D. Ganz and P. Fouracre, eds, Frankland. The Franks and the World of Early Medieval Europe (Manchester, 2008), pp. 126-51.
• P. J. E. Kershaw, ‘Eberhard of Friuli, a Carolingian Lay Intellectual’, in P. Wormald and J. L. Nelsom, eds, Lay Intellectuals in the Carolingian World (Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 77-105.
• M.B. McKinley, ‘Iconoclasm in Lyon (1562): Three Contemporary Chroniclers’, in Silvana Sydel Menchi and Robert Pierce, eds, Ritratti: La dimensione individuale nella storia (secoli xv-xx). Festschrift for Anne Jacobson Schutte (Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2008), pp. 225-247.   
• C. Kinney, ‘Chaucer’s Dialogic Imagination: Teaching the Multiple Discourses of Troilus and Criseyde’, in A. Weisl and T. Pugh, eds, Approaches to Teaching Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde and the Shorter Poems (Modern Languages Association, 2007).
• D. Osheim, ‘Chonicles and Civic Live in Giovanni Sercambi's Lucca’, in Chronicling History: Chroniclers and Historians in Medieval and Renaissance Italy.
• A. C. Spearing, ‘Marguerite Porete: Courtliness and Transcendence in The Mirror of Simple Souls’, in C. Muessig and A. Putter, eds, Envisaging Heaven in the Middle Ages, (Routledge, 2007), pp. 120-36.