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This volume by Arc Humanities Press, doubling as a special issue of the journal Early Middle English, honours the long and prolific career of scholar and poet Carter Revard (1931–2022). The volume includes contributions by Keith Busby, Susanna Fein, Thomas Goodmann, Richard Firth Green, Steven Justice, Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Nancy P. Pope, and Suzanne M. Yeager, along with Revard's unpublished edition and translation of a thirteenth-century Anglo-French parlour game (edited by Susanna Fein and David Raybin). In recognition of Revard's deep interest in early Middle English and Anglo-French literature, these essays offer new research that reflects his “sleuthing” for the scribe of Harley 2253 as well as topics in medieval social history and literary codicology. Taken together, the essays deepen our understanding of the intricate social and political contexts of literary transmission, and of manuscript production and reception.

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Author:   Susanna Fein (Kent State University) ,  Thomas Goodmann (University of Miami)
Publisher:   Arc Humanities Press
Imprint:   Arc Humanities Press
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9781802702859

ISBN 10:   1802702857
Pages:   242
Publication Date:   30 November 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements by Susanna Fein and Thomas Goodmann Preface by Susanna Fein ""Introduction"" by Thomas Goodmann ""Interdisciplinary Carter Revard"" by Nancy P. Pope ""Documents of Pilgrimage: Harley 2253 and the Palmers’ Guild of Ludlow"" by Susanna Fein ""Harley 2253 and the Languages of the Law"" by Keith Busby ""A Taste for Complex Narrators: The Self-Satirizing Poet’s Voice in Lyrics from Harley 2253 and Harley 913"" by Kathryn Kerby-Fulton ""Medieval Foremothers and Female Audiences: Women’s Crusader Identities and the Cultural Contexts of The King of Tars"" by Suzanne M. Yeager ""The Two Franciscans of Piers Plowman B 8 (C 10, A 9)"" by Steven Justice ""Chester’s Minstrel Army: A Revisionary History"" by Richard Firth Green ""Gentle Readers? A Naughty Parlour Game in Digby 86"" by ⸶Carter Revard, edited by Susanna Fein and David Raybin

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Susanna Fein edited and translated the contents of British Library, MS Harley 2253 (3 vols., 2014–2015) and also produced Studies in the Harley Manuscript (2000), home of Carter Revard’s landmark essay on the Harley scribe. She is the editor of The Chaucer Review and a scholar of medieval manuscripts and poetry. Thomas Goodmann edited Approaches to Teaching Langland’s “Piers Plowman” (2018), and has served as executive director of the New Chaucer Society, and president of TEAMS: Teaching Association for Medieval Studies. He taught at Washington University and the University of Miami.

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