Martha Rust is a member of New York University’s English Department, where she specializes in late medieval English literature and manuscript culture. She is the author of Imaginary Worlds in Medieval Books: Exploring the Manuscript Matrix (2007) and co-editor of The Faces of Charisma: Image, Text, Object in Byzantium and the Medieval West (2018).

• Introduction: The Metaphysics of a List and the Culture of Reckoning — Chapter 1: Turning and Dwelling in the Time of a Schedule — Chapter 2: Ten, Five, and Seven: The Rule of the Cardinal Number in the List Form — Chapter 3: From Here to Infinity: The Extensible Poetics of the List Form — Epilogue: Item: Toward a Listology

Martha Rust is a member of New York University’s English Department, where she specializes in late medieval English literature and manuscript culture. She is the author of Imaginary Worlds in Medieval Books: Exploring the Manuscript Matrix (2007) and co-editor of The Faces of Charisma: Image, Text, Object in Byzantium and the Medieval West (2018).

• Introduction: The Metaphysics of a List and the Culture of Reckoning — Chapter 1: Turning and Dwelling in the Time of a Schedule — Chapter 2: Ten, Five, and Seven: The Rule of the Cardinal Number in the List Form — Chapter 3: From Here to Infinity: The Extensible Poetics of the List Form — Epilogue: Item: Toward a Listology

Martha Rust is a member of New York University’s English Department, where she specializes in late medieval English literature and manuscript culture. She is the author of Imaginary Worlds in Medieval Books: Exploring the Manuscript Matrix (2007) and co-editor of The Faces of Charisma: Image, Text, Object in Byzantium and the Medieval West (2018).

• Introduction: The Metaphysics of a List and the Culture of Reckoning — Chapter 1: Turning and Dwelling in the Time of a Schedule — Chapter 2: Ten, Five, and Seven: The Rule of the Cardinal Number in the List Form — Chapter 3: From Here to Infinity: The Extensible Poetics of the List Form — Epilogue: Item: Toward a Listology