Bøger af Kathryn Kerby-Fulton

The first study of the poetics of vocational crisis in Langland, Hoccleve, and Audelay, and many unattributed works, The Clerical Proletariat and the Resurgence of Medieval English Poetry discusses class, meritocracy, the gig economy, precarity, and the breaking of intellectual elites, speaking to both past and present employment urgencies.

This deeply informed and lavishly illustrated book is a comprehensive introduction to the modern study of Middle English manuscripts.

Examines the censorship issues that propelled the major writers of the period toward their massive use of visionary genres. This book examines controversial ideas as diverse as the early experimental humanism of Chaucer, censured beatific vision theology and the breakdown of Langland's A Text, and Julian's authorial suppression of her gender.