New Medieval Literatures : Volume VII

New Medieval Literatures is an annual containing the best new interdisciplinary work in medieval textual studies. Volume 7 includes essays on Chaucer and Virginia Woolf, Margery Kempe, Caxton's Dialogues in French and English, and William Worcester.

New Medieval Literatures Volume 7 spotlights methodologies and practices in medieval textual studies. Ten challenging new essays together explore contemporary medievalist practices in and beyond the academy; review and critique disciplinary cultures in medieval studies past and present; and experiment with new paradigms. As usual, the volume showcases work by leading scholars together with work by striking new voices. In this volume''s analytical survey ''Actually existing Anglo-Saxon Studies'', Clare Lees imagines alternatives to current disciplinary culture. Other essays are Wendy Scase, ''The Medievalist''s Tale'' (introduction); Stephanie Trigg, ''Walking through Cathedrals: Scholars, Pilgrims, and Medieval Tourists''; Steve Ellis, ''Framing the Father: Chaucer and Virginia Woolf''; Daniel Wakelin, ''William Worcester writes a History of his Reading''; Mishtooni Bose, ''Vernacular Philosophy and the Making of Orthodoxy in the Fifteenth Century''; Melissa Raine, ''"Fals Flesch": Food and the Embodied Piety of Margery Kempe''; Lisa H. Cooper, ''Urban Utterances: Merchants, Artisans, and the Alphabet in Caxton''s Dialogues in French and English''; Seeta Chaganti, ''"A Form as Grecian Goldsmiths make": Enshrining Narrative in Chrétien de Troyes''s Cligés and the Stavelot Triptych''; and Christopher Cannon, ''Between the Old and the Middle of English''.