Jennifer Jahner is professor of English at Caltech.Ingrid Nelson is associate professor of English at Amherst College.

While celebrating Elizabeth Robertson’s long and distinguished body of scholarship, this volume affirms that debts to another’s critical arguments can in the best circumstances lead to new and refreshing insights. With considerations of acrostics and ballads, and in treatments that include authors such as John Clanvowe, Margery Kempe, and Marie de France, chapters show how form enables different kinds of embodiment, and how gender conditions expectations for various genres and/or authors. For its intellectual originality and critical generosity, this volume will be a mainstay of late Middle English literary studies.

• Introduction: The Form of ThoughtJennifer Jahner (Caltech) and Ingrid Nelson (Amherst College)Part 1: Form and Knowing1.Chaucerian Insomnia and the Hospitality of Sleeplessness in Late Medieval Dream Visions Jamie Taylor (Bryn Mawr College) 2.Cloudy Thoughts: Cognition and Affect in Troilus and CriseydeStephanie Trigg (University of Melbourne)3.Voluntarism and the Self in Piers PlowmanRobert Pasnau (University of Colorado, Boulder) 4.Margery Kempe and the Paradoxical Presence of GodKate Crassons (Lehigh University) Part 2: Material Poetics5.Both ‘Gostly Sense’ and ‘Amerouse Sentensce’: The Nightingale’s Resurrection as Hybrid TextAmy N. Vines (University of North Carolina, Greensboro) 6.Middle English Verse Acrostics: A SurveyJulia Boffey (Queen Mary University) and A.S.G. Edwards (University of Kent) 7.The Landscapes of Pearl: Poetry and TheologyAd Putter (University of Bristol) Part 3: Historicizing Gender8.Disrupting Medieval Marriage in Anglo-Norman Women’s Wr

Jennifer Jahner is professor of English at Caltech.Ingrid Nelson is associate professor of English at Amherst College.

While celebrating Elizabeth Robertson’s long and distinguished body of scholarship, this volume affirms that debts to another’s critical arguments can in the best circumstances lead to new and refreshing insights. With considerations of acrostics and ballads, and in treatments that include authors such as John Clanvowe, Margery Kempe, and Marie de France, chapters show how form enables different kinds of embodiment, and how gender conditions expectations for various genres and/or authors. For its intellectual originality and critical generosity, this volume will be a mainstay of late Middle English literary studies.

• Introduction: The Form of ThoughtJennifer Jahner (Caltech) and Ingrid Nelson (Amherst College)Part 1: Form and Knowing1.Chaucerian Insomnia and the Hospitality of Sleeplessness in Late Medieval Dream Visions Jamie Taylor (Bryn Mawr College) 2.Cloudy Thoughts: Cognition and Affect in Troilus and CriseydeStephanie Trigg (University of Melbourne)3.Voluntarism and the Self in Piers PlowmanRobert Pasnau (University of Colorado, Boulder) 4.Margery Kempe and the Paradoxical Presence of GodKate Crassons (Lehigh University) Part 2: Material Poetics5.Both ‘Gostly Sense’ and ‘Amerouse Sentensce’: The Nightingale’s Resurrection as Hybrid TextAmy N. Vines (University of North Carolina, Greensboro) 6.Middle English Verse Acrostics: A SurveyJulia Boffey (Queen Mary University) and A.S.G. Edwards (University of Kent) 7.The Landscapes of Pearl: Poetry and TheologyAd Putter (University of Bristol) Part 3: Historicizing Gender8.Disrupting Medieval Marriage in Anglo-Norman Women’s Wr

Jennifer Jahner is professor of English at Caltech.Ingrid Nelson is associate professor of English at Amherst College.

While celebrating Elizabeth Robertson’s long and distinguished body of scholarship, this volume affirms that debts to another’s critical arguments can in the best circumstances lead to new and refreshing insights. With considerations of acrostics and ballads, and in treatments that include authors such as John Clanvowe, Margery Kempe, and Marie de France, chapters show how form enables different kinds of embodiment, and how gender conditions expectations for various genres and/or authors. For its intellectual originality and critical generosity, this volume will be a mainstay of late Middle English literary studies.

• Introduction: The Form of ThoughtJennifer Jahner (Caltech) and Ingrid Nelson (Amherst College)Part 1: Form and Knowing1.Chaucerian Insomnia and the Hospitality of Sleeplessness in Late Medieval Dream Visions Jamie Taylor (Bryn Mawr College) 2.Cloudy Thoughts: Cognition and Affect in Troilus and CriseydeStephanie Trigg (University of Melbourne)3.Voluntarism and the Self in Piers PlowmanRobert Pasnau (University of Colorado, Boulder) 4.Margery Kempe and the Paradoxical Presence of GodKate Crassons (Lehigh University) Part 2: Material Poetics5.Both ‘Gostly Sense’ and ‘Amerouse Sentensce’: The Nightingale’s Resurrection as Hybrid TextAmy N. Vines (University of North Carolina, Greensboro) 6.Middle English Verse Acrostics: A SurveyJulia Boffey (Queen Mary University) and A.S.G. Edwards (University of Kent) 7.The Landscapes of Pearl: Poetry and TheologyAd Putter (University of Bristol) Part 3: Historicizing Gender8.Disrupting Medieval Marriage in Anglo-Norman Women’s Wr