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Textual Situations: Three Medieval Manuscripts and Their Readers. University of Pennsylvania Press. 2002. 285 pp.

Books edited

The Canterbury Tales. Ed. Robert Boenig and Andrew Taylor. Broadview, 2008. (Seven of the tales from this edition appear in the Broadview Anthology of British Literature, 2006).

The Future of the Page. Ed. Peter Stoicheff and Andrew Taylor. University of Toronto Press, 2004.

The Idea of the Vernacular: An Anthology of Late Middle English Literary Theory, 1280-1520. Edited with Ruth Evans, Nicholas Watson, and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. 506 pp.

The Tongue of the Fathers: Gender and Ideology in Medieval Latin. Edited with David Townsend. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. 211 pp.

Chapters and Articles

"From Heraldry to History: The Death of Gilles d'Argentan." Langage Cleir Illumynate: Scottish Poetry from Barbour to Drummond, 1375-1630. Ed. Nicola Royan. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007. 25-41.

“Bodleian MS Ashmole 48 and the Ballad Press.” English Manuscript Studies, 1100-1700  14 (2008): 219-43.

"Editing Sung Objects: The Challenge of Digby 23." The Book Unbound: New Directions In Editing and Reading Medieval Books and Texts. Ed. Siân Echard and Stephen B. Partridge. Toronto. University of Toronto Press, 2003: 78-104.

"Manual to Miscellany: Stages in the Commercial Copying of Vernacular Literature in England." Yearbook of English Studies, 33 (2003): 1-17. 

"Was Grosseteste the Father of English Literature?" Revista Canaraia de Estudios Ingleses 47 (2003).

"‘Mult bien lisoit et parloit le franchois,’or Did Richard II Read with a Picard Accent?" Vernacularity: The Politics of Language and Style. Ed. Fiona Somerset and Nicholas Watson. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003: 132-44.

"The Dates of the Reading Calendar and the Summer Canon." With Alan Coates. Notes and Queries, 243 (New Series 45), No. 1. March 1998: 22-24.

"A Second Ajax: Peter Abelard and the Violence of Dialectic." The Tongue of the Fathers. Ed. David Townsend and Andrew Taylor: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998: 14-34.

"Songs of Praise and Blame and the Repertoire of the Gestour." The Entertainer in Medieval and Traditional Culture. Ed. Flemming Andersen,Thomas Pettitt, and Rheinhold Schröder. Odense University Press, 1997: 47-72.

"Anne of Bohemia and the Making of Chaucer." Studies in the Age of Chaucer 19 (1997): 95-119.

"The Harper Richard Sheale and the Stanley Poem." Leeds Studies in English New Series 28 (1997): 1-23.

"Into His Secret Chamber: Reading and Privacy in Late Medieval England." The Practice and Representation of Reading in England. Ed. James Raven, Helen Small, and Naomi Tadmor. Cambridge University Press, 1996: 41-61.

"Reading the Dirty Bits." Desire and Discipline: Sex and Sexuality in the Pre-Modern West. Ed. Konrad Eisenbichler and Jacqueline Murray. University of Toronto Press, 1996: 280-95.

"Playing on the Margins of the Book: Bakhtin and the Smithfield Decretals." Medieval Voices: Bakhtin and Medieval Literature. Ed. Thomas Farrell. University of Florida Press, 1995: 2-25.

"Reading the Body in the Le Livre de Seyntz Medecines." Essays in Medieval Studies 11 (The Body in Medieval Art, History, and Literature). Proceedings of the Illinois Medieval Association, 1994. Ed. Allen J. Frantzen and David A. Robertson: 103-18.

"Chaucer Our Derridean Contemporary?" Exemplaria 5 (1993): 471-86.

"The Sounds of Chivalry: Lute Song and Harp Song for Sir Henry Lee." Journal of the Lute Society of America 25 (1992): 1-24.

"Fragmentation, Corruption, and Minstrel Narration: The Question of the Middle English Romances." The Yearbook of English Studies 22 (1992): 38-62.

"The Myth of the Minstrel Manuscript." Speculum 66 (1991): 43-73.  (This article may be consulted at the archive Journal Storage by clicking here)

"To Pleye a Pagyn of the Devyl": Turpiloquium and the Scurrae in Early Drama." Medieval English Theatre 11 (1989): 162-74.

Forthcoming

 “Courage and Sexual Anxiety in Sir Thomas Gray’s Scalacronica.”  The Hero Recovered: Essays on Medieval Heroism in Honor of George Clark. Ed. James Weldon and Robin Waugh. Medieval Institute Publications, University of Western Michigan. Forthcoming in 2008. Awaiting proofs.

Recent Papers Read  

« La chanson d’Aspremont en Angleterre. » Disputatio McGillensis, 7eme colloque de la Société des études médiévales du Québec, McGill, 5 April 2008.

« Une anthologie chevaleresque et ses lecteurs : John Talbot, Marguerite d’Anjou et le manuscrit BL 15 E VI. » Conférence avant l’assemblée générale de la Société des études médiévales du Québec, UQAM, 28 November 2007.

“The Time of an Anthology: British Library MS Royal 15 E. VI and the Commemoration of Chivalric Culture.” Collections in Context”: The Organization of Knowledge and Community in Europe (14th-17th centuries). University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 14 September 2007.

“Have We Been Here Before? The Turn to Written Record in Medieval England and Some Possible Contemporary Parallels.” Session on Equal; Footing and Delgamuukw for Canadian Historical Association. Saskatoon. 30 May 2007.

 “The French Self-Fashioning of an English Mastiff: John Talbot’s Book of Chivalry.” The Society of Canadian Medievalists at the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities. Saskatoon. 27 May 2007.

“Qe  vous n’oubliez pas le François: The Shrewsbury Book and the Circulation of French Chivalric Material in Fifteenth-Century England.” The French of England: Multilingualism in Practice, 100-15000. Fordham, New York. 1 April 2007.

“Can an Englishman Read a Chanson de Geste?” Conceptualizing Multilingualism in England, 800-1250. York, England. 16 July 2006.

“The Leisure Reading of the Canons of Oseney.” The Society of Canadian Medievalists at the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities. York. 29 May 2006.

“The Enigma of Chaucer’s Glosses.” Plenary Address. Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies, Ohio State University. October 2005.

“From Prayer Stall to Coffee-Table: Bibliophilia and the Fate of Medieval Liturgical Manuscripts.”  Scattered Leaves (conference on MSS of Otto Ege). University of Saskatchewan. 13 June 2005.

“The Sword of Roland at Rocamadour: A Lost Tale from the Camino.” Popular lecture for A Gathering of Pilgrims. Toronto. 14 May 2005.

“Writing and Glossing: The Construction of Authority in the Ellesmere Chaucer.” Queen’s University. 8 March 2005.

“Touching St Margaret’s Foot.” Fourteenth Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society. Glasgow. 16 July 2004.

“The Book He Never Gave: Froissart and the English in 1381.” International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds. 14 July 2004.

“Driving the Night Away: Early Chapters in the History of Reading.” Plenary address. The Canadian Society of Medievalists at the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities. Winnipeg. 31 May 2004.

16. “The Fascination of the Parchment and the Poetics of the Mirror.” Recovering Reading: Reception Histories and Medieval Texts – Methodological and Theoretical Considerations. Queen’s University, Belfast. 14 April 2004.

17. “Semblance or Shamanism: Reading Middle English Aloud.” Medieval Academy. Seattle. 3 April 2004.

"Lying about Fear: What Can Medieval Minstrels Teach Us about Modern Violence?" Symposium on the Psychological Interpretation of War. New York. 29 January 2004.

"Are Minstrels Necessarily Damned? Loyola University, Chicago. 22 September 2003.

"'The whether the trowthe may shewe': The Mercers' Petition and the Rise of Standard English." The Society of Canadian Medievalists at the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities.  Halifax. 30 May 2003.

"Untouchable Treasures, Invisible Beauties, and the Digital Lure of Froissart's Chronicles."  Newberry Library, Chicago. 7 February 2003.

"Ghostly Chivalry and Rivers’s Marco Polo." Harvard Medieval Colloquium. 17 October 2002.

"Was Grosseteste the Father of English Literature?" 37th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University. 2 May 2002.

"The Singer of Battles." Continuing Education Symposium on Medieval Warfare: Technology and Social Change. St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto. 13 April 2002.

"Seduction, Social Climbing, and a Thirteenth-Century Private Reader." Discovery Lecture Series. University of Ottawa. 19 March 2002.

"The Shame of the Speaking Body: Vows and Death Speeches in the Border Wars." Modern Language Association. New Orleans. December 2001.

"'Go, Litel Bok! or, Why Didn't Chaucer Publish in the French Fashion?" Modern Language Association. Washington 28 December 2000.

"The Ethics of Virtual Pilgrimage: Margaret of York and Beinecke MS 639." Twelfth Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society. London. 14 July 2000.

"Envisioning Information for the Beauchamp/Berkeley Circle or Did Elizabeth Berkeley Publish John Walton?" 35th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University. 3 May 2000. With Edison del Canto, Apex Graphics.

"Editing Sung Objects: Acoustic Architecture and Digby 23." The Book Unbound: Manuscript Studies and Editorial Theory for the Twenty-first Century. University of British Columbia. 18 September 1999.

"From Heraldry to History: Barbour and Robert le Roy, King of Heralds." 9th International Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Language and Literature, University of St Andrews, 8 August 1999.

"Mult bien lisoit et parloit le franchois, or did Richard II Read with a Picard Accent?" Vernacularity: The Politics of Language and Style, University of Western Ontario, Medieval and Renaissance Seminar. 4 March 1999.

"Harley 4431 and the Dangers of Writing." New Chaucer Society. Sorbonne (Paris IV). Paris. 18 July 1998.

"Private Reading and Musical Collaboration: How did William of Winchester Use Harley 978?" International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds. 15 July 1998.

"Is Bibl. Nat. fr. 831 Really King Richard's Book? - And Why Should it Matter?" With Jon Bath. Cultural Studies, Medieval Studies, and Disciplinary Debate. University of Saskatchewan. 13 March 1998. A version of this paper was also delivered at the meeting of the Society of Canadian Medievalists at the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities. Ottawa University. 30 May, 1998.

"Silent Reading, Private Reading, and the Thirteenth-Century Manuals." Medieval Academy. Stanford University. 26 March, 1998.

"Warenne's Sword: Quo Warranto and Equal Footing in Delgammukw v. British Columbia."   Cultural Studies, Medieval Studies, and Disciplinary Debate. University of Saskatchewan. 13 March 1998.

"The Dark Ages Return: Apocalyptic Narratives of the End of Reading." Endings and Transformations: Cultural studies and the Millennium. Trent University. 20 August 1997.

"Anti-Translation, Censorship, Authorship, and the Lost Works of Bishop Reginald Pecock." The Politics of Translation in The Middle Ages and the Renaissance. University of Pittsburgh. 11 April 1997.

"The Song of Roland, the Book of Roland, and Master Henry Langley." University of Western Ontario. 7 March 1997. "Privacy on Display: Margaret of York and the Depiction of Late Medieval Devotional Reading." International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo. May 8, 1996.

"Master Henry of Langley Reads the Oxford Roland." The Medieval Association of the Midwest, Twelfth Annual Conference. 12 October 1996.

"Harley 978 and the Development of Leisure Reading." Oxford Seminar on the Book to 1500. Oxford. 12 July 1996.

"Bodleian Digby MS 23 and the Fetish of Origins." Modern Language Association. Chicago. 27 December 1995.

"Was There a Song of Roland?" Department of Folklore, University of Copenhagen. 23 November 1994; Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto. 23 October 1995.