STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE TEACHING
(SMART)
CURRENT ISSUE INFORMATION
The Spring 2014 Issue 1 of Volume 21 of Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching presents a small collection of articles on teaching William Langland’s Piers Plowman. Like Chaucer, Langland addressed perplexing societal problems, yet his work is not taught as often as Chaucer’s. Langland’s position as one of the most important of medieval English writers raises several questions: Should Langland be taught to undergraduates? If so, in what contexts should he be taught? How can Langland be made relevant for current under-graduates? These papers, originally delivered at a session of the 2008 International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, attempt to answer these questions.
This issue of SMART also offers several other fine articles on a variety of topics—teaching Percy’sReliques of Ancient English Poetry, understanding Beowulf through a modern contrast, teaching medieval literature at a Hispanic-serving institution, employing the Crusades as a tool to discuss the relationship between Islam and the West, using anachronistic movies to successfully teach medieval history, and editing and teaching medieval drama. The volume is rounded out with some excellent book reviews.
TEACHING PIERS PLOWMAN
(collection guest edited by Theodore L. Steinberg)
THEODORE L. STEINBERG Introduction: Teaching Piers Plowman
THOMAS GOODMANN Why Not Teach Langland?
THEODORE L. STEINBERG I’m Dreaming of Piers Plowman
LOUISE BISHOP Piers Plowman: Text and Context
ADAM H. KITZES Canonicity, Literary History, and the Survey of English Literature: Teaching Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry to Undergraduates
MEGAN HARTMAN Beowulf Then and Now: Understanding the Medieval Hero through a Modern Contrast
R. JACOB MCDONIE Teaching Medieval Literature at a Hispanic-Serving Institution
MERIEM PAGES The Crusades as a Tool to Discuss the Relationship between Islam and the West in Medieval Europe
JULIE ELB Knights! Camera! Action! Using Anachronistic Movies to Successfully Teach Medieval History
CLAIRE SPONSLOR Is There a Play in This Book? Editing and Teaching Medieval Drama
SUSAN KENDRICK Book Review: The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare’s Comedies,
by Penny Gay
by Penny Gay
E. L. RISDEN Book Review: The Chronica Maiora of Thomas Walsingham (1376–1422),
translated by David Preest, with introduction and notes by James G. Clark
translated by David Preest, with introduction and notes by James G. Clark
GWENDOLYN MORGAN Book Review: European Sexualities, 1400–1800, by Katherine Crawford
BRIGITTE ROUSSEL Book Review: Communal Discord, Child Abduction, and Rape in the Later Middle Ages, by Jeremy Goldberg
LESLEY A. COOTE Book Review: Allegory and Sexual Ethics in the High Middle Ages, by Noah D. Guynn
CHRISTINA FRANCIS Book Review: Brueghel’s Heavy Dancers: Transgressive Clothing, Class, & Culture in the Late Middle Age, by John Block Friedman
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