An invigorating annual for those who are interested in medieval textual cultures and open to ways in which diverse post-modern methodologies may be applied to them. Alcuin Blamires, Review of English StudiesNew Medieval Literatures is an annual of work on medieval textual cultures, aiming to engage with intellectual and cultural pluralism in the Middle Ages and now. Its scope is inclusive of work across the theoretical, archival, philological, and historicist methodologies associated with medieval literary studies, and embraces both the British Isles and Europe. Essays in this volume engage with the relations between humans and nonhumans; the power of inanimate objects to animate humans and texts; literary deployments of medical, aesthetic, and economic discourses; the language of friendship; and the surprising value of early readers' casual annotations. Texts discussed include Beowulf, works by Rolle, Chaucer, Langland, Gower, and Lydgate; lyrics of the Occitan troubadour Marcabru and the French poet Richard de Fournival; and the Anglo-Saxon versions of Boethius's De Consolatione Philosophiae and Augustine's Soliloquia. Wendy Scase is Geoffrey Shepherd Professor of Medieval English Literature at the University of Birmingham; David Lawton is Professor of English at Washington University, StLouis; Laura Ashe is Associate Professor of English at Worcester College, Oxford. Contributors: Diane Cady, Aaron Hostetter, Boyda Johnstone, R. Jacob McDonie, Michael Raby, Joe Stadolnik, Spencer Strub, Eliza Zingesser,

The Lives of Nytenu: Imagining the Animal in the Old English Boethius and Soliloquies - Michael RabyDisruptive Things in Beowulf - Aaron HostetterPidgin Poetics: Bird Talk in Medieval France and Occitania - Eliza ZingesserPerforming Friendship in Richard Rolle's Incendium Amoris - Robert Jacob McDonieDamaged Goods: Merchandise, Stories, and Gender in Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale - Diane CadyGower's Bedside Manner - Joseph StadolnikVitreous Visions: Stained Glass and Affective Engagement in John Lydgate's The Temple of Glass - Boyda JohnstoneThe Idle Readers of Piers Plowman in Print - Spencer Strub