Medieval poetics and social practice : responding to the work of Penn R. Szittya / edited by Seeta Chaganti.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-241) and index.

Introduction / Seeta Chaganti -- Visual translation in fifteenth-century English manuscripts / Richard K. Emmerson -- Barn of unity or the devil's church? Salvation and ecclesiology in Langland and the Wycliffites / J. Patrick Hornbeck II -- Christian poetics and orthodox practice : meaning and implication in six carols by James Ryman, O.F.M. / John C. Hirsh -- Enabled and disabled "myndes" in The prick of conscience / Moira Fitzgibbons -- The ideal of public poetry in Lydgatean religious verse : authority and the common voice in devotional literature / John T. Sebastian -- Nature's yerde and ward : authority and choice in Chaucer's Parliament of fowls / Nick Havely -- Fabulous women, fables of patronage : Metham's Amoryus and Cleopes and BL MS Additional 10304 / Kara Doyle -- Dowel, the proverbial, and the vernacular : some versions of pastoralia / Anne Middleton -- List of published works by Penn R. Szittya -- Penn R. Szittya as scholar and teacher / Jo Ann Hoeppner Moran Cruz -- The desire to write things down : a poetic palimpsest on certain remarks by Penn Szittya / Mark McMorris.