Publications: Articles

  • “Visualizing Susanna: Another Look at ‘The Pistel of Swete Susan’ and Later Imagery in the Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries,” in English Poets and Scribes in the Fourteenth and early Fifteenth Century: Manuscripts and Meaning. A Festschrift for Susanna Fein, ed. by Kathryn Kerby-Fulton and Michael Johnston (DeGruyter, 2023), pp. 17–46.

  • “The Schoolroom in Early English Illustration,” Vernacular Books and Their Readers in the Early Age of Print (c. 1450–1600), Intersections, vol. 85, ed. by Anna Dlabačová, Andrea van Leerdam, and John Thompson (Brill, 2023), pp. 173–193. https://brill.com/edcollchap-oa/book/9789004520158/BP000017.xml

  • “Women’s Learning and Lore: Magic, Recipes, and Folk Belief,” Women and Medieval Literary Culture From the Early Middle Ages to the Fifteenth Century, ed. by Corinne Saunders and Diane Watt (Cambridge University Press, 2023), pp. 179–205.

  • "Chaucer the Mage: A Brief Exploration of Magic in The Squire’s Tale, The Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale, and The Franklin’s Tale,” Interpreting Middle English Literature and Manuscripts: Essays in Memory of Derek Pearsall. The Chaucer Review. 58. 3-4 (2023): 389–402.

  • “Pilgrim Portraits,” The Chaucer Encyclopedia, 4 vols., ed. by Richard Newhauser, Vincent Gillespie, Jessica Rosenfeld, Katie Walter (Wiley-Blackwell, 2023), volume 3, pp. 1464—1465.

  • “Mandeville in the Twenty-First Century,” Medieval Travel, Proceedings of the 2021 Harlaxton Conference, ed. by Martha Carlin and Caroline Barron (Donington, UK: Shaun Tyas, 2023), pp. 303—319.

  • “How English Is It?” Scribal Cultures in Late Medieval England: A Festschrift Honoring Linne Mooney, ed. by Holly James-Maddocks, Derek Pearsall, and Margaret Connolly (York Medieval Press, Boydell and Brewer, 2022), pp. 22—42.

  • “There and Back Again: Manuscripts after Printing,” Middle English Manuscripts and their Legacies: A Volume in Honour of Ian Doyle. Library of the Written Word 102, vol. 14, ed. by Corinne Saunders, Richard Lawrie (forthcoming February, Leiden: Brill, 2022), pp. 155—188.

  • Margery Kempe, The New Historia, online publication sponsored by the New School, available at https://www.thenewhistoria.org/schema/margery-kempe/ (2022).

  • Elizabeth Pickering, The New Historia, online publication sponsored by the New School, available at https://www.thenewhistoria.org/schema/elizabeth-pickering/ (2022).

  • “English Manuscript Rolls (and Banderoles) in the Morgan Library” in The Medieval Book as Object, Idea and Symbol, Harlaxton Symposium, ed. Julian Luxford (Donington, UK: Shaun Tyas Publishing, October 2021), pp. 259—271. 

  • “Medieval Women Writers and What They Read, ca. 1100 to ca. 1500,” The Edinburgh History of Reading: A World Survey from Antiquity to the Present, edited by Mary Hammond and Jonathan Rose (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020). pp. 54—73. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edinburgh-history-of-reading-hb-19564.html

  • “Morgan M.126: A Reminiscence,” Vatican Library, St Louis University, May 2020.

    https://www.slu.edu/arts-and-sciences/medieval-renaissance-studies/pdfs/momm30.pdf 

  • “John Gower and the Artists of M.126,” in Studies in the Age of Gower, A Festschrift in Honour of R. F. Yeager, ed. by Susannah Mary Chewning (Cambridge: Boydell, 2020), pp. 99—115. 

  • “The Mind of a Collector,” Poetica, vols. 91-92 (December, 2019): 43-59.

  • “The Curious Case of a De Worde Edition in the Morgan Library & Museum,” Poetica 89—90 (2018): 41—58.

  • Revisiting Nychodemus Gospell," Middle English Texts: Editing and Interpretation: Essays in Honour of William Marx, ed. Margaret Connolly and Raluca Radelescu (Turnhout: Brepols, 2018), pp. 285—316. 

  • “Printing,” The Encyclopedia of British Medieval Literature, ed. Siân Echard and Robert Rouse (New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017): 1546-1554. 

  • “Caxton, William,” The Encyclopedia of British Medieval Literature, ed. Siân Echard and Robert Rouse (New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017): 390-399.  

  • “More Light on Ricardus Franciscus: Looking Again at Morgan M. 126,” South Atlantic Review 34.79 (October 2015): 20-35.

  • “‘Until the Dragon Comes’: Literature, Language, and the Hobbit,” in The Hobbit and History, ed. Janice Liedl and Nancy R. Reagin (New York: Wiley, 2014): 207-226.

  • “Derek Pearsall Secret Shakespearean?” in New Directions in Medieval Manuscript Studies and Reading Practices: Essays in Honour of Derek Pearsall’s 80th Birthday, ed. Kathy Kerby-Fulton and John Thompson with Sarah Baechle and Amanda Bohne (University of Notre Dame Press, 2014), pp. 55-71.

  • “Beowulf and New Media,” in Teaching Beowulf in the Twenty-First Century, ed. Allen J. Frantzen, H.D. Chickering, and R.F. Yeager, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies (Tempe: Arizona State University Press, 2014), pp. 45-53.

  • “Public Chaucer: Multimedia Approaches to Teaching Chaucer in Middle English,” in Approaches to Teaching Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, ed. Francis Grady and Peter W. Travis (NY: MLA Publications, 2014), pp. 185-188.

  • “Woodcuts and Decorative Techniques,” in A Companion to the Early Printed Book in Britain (1476-1558), ed. Vincent Gillespie and Susan Powell (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2014), pp. 95-123.

  •  “Pageants Reconsidered” in Makers and Users of Medieval Books: Essays in Honour of A. S.G. Edwards, ed. Carol M. Meale and Derek Pearsall (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2014), pp. 34-47. 

  • “By Me Elysabeth Pykeryng’: Women and Book Production in the Early Tudor Period,” in Manuscripts and Printed Books in Europe 1350-1550: Packaging, Presentation and Consumption, ed. Emma Cayley and Susan Powell (Liverpool: University of Liverpool Press, 2013).

  •  “Poetry as Prayer: John Audelay’s ‘Salutation to St Bridget’,” in Middle English Religious Writing in Practice, ed. Nicole Rice (Turnhout: Brepols, 2013), pp. 91-114.

  • "Preaching in Pictures from Manuscript to Print," in Preaching the Word in Manuscript and Print in Late Medieval England: Essays in Honour of Susan Powell, ed. Martha W. Driver and Veronica O’Mara (Turnhout: Brepols, 2013), pp. 235-258.

  • “Making Medievalism: Teaching the Middle Ages through Film,” in The Medieval Python: The Purposive and Provocative Work of Terry Jones, ed. R.F. Yeager and Toshiyuki Takamiya (NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. 151-166. 

  •  “Decorating and illustrating the page,” with Michael Orr, in The Production of Books in England 1350-1550, ed. Alexandra Gillespie and Daniel Wakelin (Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp. 104-128.

  •  “Classical Themes in Medieval Art,” in The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art, ed. Colum Hourihane (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011).

  • “Conjuring Gower in Pericles,” in John Gower, Trilingual Poet, Language, Translation, and Tradition, ed. Elisabeth Dutton with John Hines and R.F. Yeager (Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2010), pp. 315-325.

  • “‘Me fault faire’: French Makers of Manuscripts for English Patrons,” in Language and Culture in Medieval Britain: The French of England, c. 1100-c. 1500, ed. Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, et al. (Woodbridge: Boydell for Westfield Medieval Studies, 2009), pp. 422-433.

  • “John Audelay and the Bridgettines,” in My Wyl and My Wrytyng: Essays on John the Blind Audelay, ed. Susanna Fein (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2009), pp. 191-217. 

  • “Medieval Literature and Multimedia: The Pleasures and Perils of Internet Pedagogy,” in Teaching Literature and Language Online, ed. Ian Lancashire (New York: Modern Language Association Publications, 2009): 243-253.

  • “Women Readers and Pierpont Morgan MS M.126,” John Gower: Manuscripts, Readers and Contexts, ed. Malte Urban and Georgiana Donavin (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols,  2009), pp. 67-83.

  • “Reading A Midsummer Night's Dream through Middle English Romance,” Shakespeare and the Middle Ages, ed. Martha W. Driver and Sid Ray (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009), pp. 140-160.

  • “Looking Forward to Look Backward: Technology and King Arthur,” with Jennifer D.E. Thomas, Jean F. Coppola and Barbara A. Thomas, Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education Journal 16.4 (2009): 367-383.

  • “Teaching & Learning Guide: The Middle Ages on Film,” History Compass (Spring 2008): 1000-1009.

  • "Teaching the Middle Ages on Film: Visual Narrative and the Historical
    Record," History Compass, 5/1 (2007): 146-161 (published simultaneously in the Europe and World issues of this online journal published by Blackwell). Accessible:  HYPERLINK "http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/history/section_home?section=hico-world"http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/history/section_home?section=hico-world

  • “Garland of Laurel,” “To Mistress Jane Hasset,” “To Mistress Isabell Pennel,” “To Mistress Margarete Hussey,” “To Mistress Margery Wentworthe,” in Companion to Pre-1600 British Poetry, ed. Michelle M. Sauer (New York: Facts on File, 2008), pp. 199-202.

  • “‘In her owne persone semly and bewteus’: Representing Women in Stories of Guy of Warwick,” in Icon and Ancestor: The Medieval and Renaissance Guy of Warwick, ed. Alison Wiggins and Rosalind Field (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2007), pp. 133-153.

  • “Inventing Visual History: Re-presenting the Legends of Warwickshire,” Essays in Manuscript Geography: Vernacular Manuscripts of the English West Midlands from the 

  • Conquest to the Sixteenth Century, Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe 10, ed. Wendy Scase (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2007), pp. 161-202.

  • “Romancing the Rose: the readings of Chaucer and Christine,” Writings on Love in the English Middle Ages, Studies in Arthurian and Courtly Cultures, ed. Helen Cooney (New York: Palgrave New Middle Ages Series, 2006), pp. 228-248.

  • “‘We Band of Brothers’: Rousing Speeches from Robin Hood to Black Knight,” Medieval Cultural Studies: Essays in Honour of Stephen Knight, ed. Ruth Evans, Helen Fulton and David Matthews (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2006), pp. 91-106. 

  •  “’Yet Another Part of the Very Expensive Forest’: A (Brief) Meditation on Medieval Studies and Popular Culture,” Medieval Academy News (Winter 2005): 9. Accessible at <http://www.medievalacademy.org/medacnews.news_driver.htm>.

  • “Early Book Society.” “Picturing Creation and its Creatures in MSS and / or Early Printed Books,” “Sequences of MS and Book Production” [ed.] AVISTA Forum Journal: Medieval Science, Technology & Art 15, no. 1 (fall 2005): 57-60.

  • “Morgan MS M. 956 and an Important Early Collector,” The Medieval Book and a Modern Collector: Essays in Honour of Toshiyuki Takamiya, ed. Takami Matsuda, Richard A. Linenthal and John Scahill (Cambridge and Tokyo: D.S. Brewer & Yushodo Press Ltd, 2004), pp. 381-404. 

  • “Stow’s Books Bequeathed: Some Notes on William Browne (1591-c. 1643) and Peter Le Neve (1661-1729),” John Stow (1525-1605) and the Making of the English Past: Studies in Early Modern Culture and the History of the Book, ed. Ian Anders Gadd and Alexandra Gillespie (London: British Library Publications, 2004), pp. 135-143. 

  • “John Gower in New York: Looking Again at the Morgan MSS,” abstract, JGN [John Gower Newsletter] 23, no. 1 (April 2004): 12.  

  • “Picturing the Apocalypse in the Printed Book of Hours,” Prophecy, Apocalypse and the Day of Doom, Proceedings of the 2000 Harlaxton Symposium, Harlaxton Medieval Studies XII, ed. Nigel Morgan (Stamford, Lincs.: Paul Watkins Publishing, 2004): 52-67.

  • “Reading Images of Reading,” The Ricardian. Journal of the Richard III Society: Essays in Honour of Anne F. Sutton, ed. Livia Visser-Fuchs, vol. XIII (March 2003): 186-202. 

  •  “When is a miscellany not miscellaneous? Making sense of the Kalendar of Shepherds,” The Yearbook of English Studies 33, ed. Phillipa Hardman, Modern Humanities Research Association (2003): 199-214.

  • “Mapping Chaucer: John Speed and the later Portraits,” The Chaucer Review, vol. 36, no.3 (2002): 228-249.

  • “Medieval Manuscripts and Electronic Media:  Observations on Future Possibilities,” New Directions in Later Manuscript Studies, ed. Derek Pearsall (Woodbridge: Boydell for York Medieval Press, 2001), pp. 53-64. 

  • “Engaging students in literature and composition using Web research and student-constructed Web projects,” with Jeanine Meyer, academic. writing http://aw.colostate.edu/ March, 2000.

  • “A False Imprint in Chaucer’s Workes:  Protestant Printers in London (and Zurich?),” Sources, Exemplars, and Copy-Texts: Influence and Transmission, Essays from the Lampeter Conference of the Early Book Society 1997, ed. William Marx, Trivium 31 (Fall 1999): 131-154.

  • “Web Research and Hypermedia: Tools for Engaged Learning,” with Linda Anstendig and Jeanine Meyer, Journal on Excellence in College Teaching 9 (1998): 69-91.

  • “Beowulf to Lear: Text, Image and Hypertext,” with Jeanine Meyer, Literary and Linguistic Computing, Oxford University Press (June 1999): 223-243.

  • "Women Printers and the Page, 1477-1541," Gutenberg-Jahrbuch (1998): 139-153.

  • "Medievalizing the Classical Past in Morgan M 876," Middle English Poetry: Texts and Traditions in Honour of Derek Pearsall, ed. AJ Minnis, York Medieval Press with Boydell and Brewer, Ltd (2001):  211-239.

  • "Printing the Confessio Amantis: Caxton's Edition in Context," Revisioning Gower: New Essays, ed. RF Yeager, Pegasus Press (1998): 269-303.

  • "Christine de Pisan and Robert Wyer: The .C. Hystoryes of Troye, or L'Epistre d'Othea Englished." Gutenberg-Jahrbuch (1997): 125-139.

  • "Teaching About Women With Multimedia," with Deborah McGrady, Medieval Feminist Newsletter, 25 (Spring 1997): 21-23.

  • "Mirrors of a Collective Past: Re-Considering Images of Medieval Women," in Women and the Book: Assessing the Pictorial Evidence, ed. Lesley Smith and Jane Taylor, British Museum Publications (1997), 75-93.

  • "Ideas of Order: Wynkyn de Worde and the Title Page," in Texts and Their Contexts: Papers from the Early Book Society, ed. Julia Boffey and VJ Scattergood, Four Courts Press (1997), 87-149.  

  • “The Illustrated de Worde: An Overview," Studies in Iconography, Medieval Institute Publications, 17 (1996): 349-403. 

  • "Bridgettine Woodcuts in Printed Books Produced for the English Market," in Art into Life: Papers from the Kresge Art Museum Symposium, fifth anniversary volume, Michigan State University Press (1995), 237-267.

  • "The Image Redux: Pictures in Block-books and What Becomes of Them," in Blockbücher des Mittelalters, exhibition catalogue, Gutenberg-Museum, Mainz (July 1991), 341-352.

  • "Late Fifteenth- and Early Sixteenth-Century English Religious Books for Lay Readers: Illustration and Layout," in De Cella in Seculum, edited by Michael G.  Sargent (Boydell & Brewer, 1989), 229-244.

  • "Illustration in Early English Books," in Books at Brown 33 (1987): 1-57.

  • 'Sweet as Honey':  Albrecht Dürer as Protestant Propagandist," American Book Collector (March 1986): 3-10.

  • "The Illustrated Instrument:  Early Surgical Manuals," American Book Collector (July 1985). 

  • "Censorship:  500 Years of Conflict,"catalogue research and picture captions for New York Public Library exhibition (May 1984).

  • "Medical Illustration:  Early Surgical Instruments and Procedures," in Research for Life: Journal of the American-Italian Foundation for Cancer Research (December, 1984).

  • "Richard Pynson," Dictionary of the Middle Ages, American Council of Learned Societies, 1982.

  • "Gloss," Dictionary of the Middle Ages, American Council of Learned Societies (1981): 564-565.

  • "The Wise Book of Philosophy and Astronomy" and "How men that ben in hele sholde visite sike folk" transcribed and edited from fourteenth-century manuscripts for The World of Piers Plowman, Jeanne Krochalis and Edward Peters, general editors.