Occupying Space in Medieval and Early Modern Britain and Ireland

Gregory Hulsman holds a PhD in English from Trinity College Dublin. His research focuses on the compilation of Lollard anthologies in late fourteenth- and early fifteenth-century England.Caoimhe Whelan holds a PhD in History from Trinity College Dublin. Her work examines the transmission and reception of texts with a particular focus on the dissemination of historical texts in late medieval and early modern Ireland.

• Contents: Gregory Hulsman/Caoimhe Whelan: Preface – Clare Fletcher: The Wife of Bath in the Saddle: A Rereading of ‘Upon an amblere esily she sat’ (General Prologue, I 469) – Edel Mulcahy: ‘He purveyyd hym bothe scryp and pyke and made hym a palmer lyke’: The Role of Pilgrim Clothing in Medieval Narratives – Emma Martin: Portraits of Envy: The Green Clothed Monster in Late Medieval Material and Literary Culture – Johanna M. E. Green: Textuality in Transition: Digital Manuscripts as Cultural Artefacts – Diane Scott: Filling the Void: The Development of Punctuation in a Silent Reading Culture – Joel Grossman: Games at Court: Space in Early Tudor Manuscripts – Margaret Tedford: ‘Enta geweorc’: Locating Memory in Landscape in Anglo-Saxon Poetry – Duncan L. Berryman: Welcome to the Occupation: Patterns in the Management of the Fourteenth-Century English Landscape – Sonya Cronin: ‘Spaces of Retir’d Integritie’: The Relocation of Home in the Royalist Poetry of Katherine Philips – Stephen Hand: ‘Them which possess the places erected by our ancestors’: Sacred Space and Conflict in Ireland (1603–1633) – Lyndsey Smith: The Tactile Account of Anglo-Saxon Ivory (550–1066): Image, Status, Materiality and Economics – Richard Wragg: A Civic Relationship: The Guild Book of the Barbers and Surgeons of York as an Expression of Professional Status and City Authority.