FRONT MATTER

A Note from the Editors - Jennifer L. Holberg and Marcy Taylor

Guest Editors’ Introduction: Teaching Medieval Literature off the Grid - Nathanial B. Smith and Gina Brandolino

ARTICLES

Studying Audiences off the Grid

Medieval Prime Time: Entertaining the Family in Fifteenth-Century England—and Educating Students in Twenty-First-Century America - Myra J. Seaman

Drinking Feasts and Insult Battles: Bringing Anglo-Saxon Pedagogy into the Contemporary Classroom - Harold C. Zimmerman

Critical Pleasure, Visceral Literacy, and the Prik of Conscience - Moira Fitzgibbons

Teaching Innocent’s Legacy: Middle English Texts for Commoners - Gina Brandolino

Off-the-Grid Authors and Traditions

Loading Jewry into the Medieval Canon - Theodore L. Steinberg

The Languages of British Literature and the Stakes of Anthologies - Matthieu Boyd

Teaching off the Literary Grid with Hildegard of Bingen’s Physica - Andreea Boboc

Thomas Hoccleve’s Particular Appeal - David Watt

Off the Grid for Forty Years: Bringing John Gower into the Classroom - R. F. Yeager

REVIEWS

Re-forming Our Early English Curricula - Katherine Steele Brokaw

Form and Reform: Reading across the Fifteenth Century. Edited by Shannon Gayk and Kathleen Tonry. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2011.

Teaching Pilgrimage through Primary Texts - Damian Fleming

Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages: A Reader. Edited by Brett Edward Whalen. Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures 16. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011.

More Than Something on the Side: Teaching Medieval Romance - Alex Mueller

A Companion to Medieval Popular Romance. Edited by Raluca L. Radulescu and Cory James Rushton. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2009.

“We therefore ben tawht of that was write tho”: Teaching Gower in the Classroom - Conrad van Dijk

Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of John Gower. Edited by R. F. Yeager and Brian W. Gastle. New York: Modern Language Association, 2011.

Teachable Henryson, Accessible Middle Scots - Julie Orlemanski

Robert Henryson: The Complete Works. Edited by David J. Parkinson. TEAMS Middle English Texts Series. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications,2010.

De-centering Chaucer, Emphasizing His Contemporaries - Nathanial B. Smith

A Companion to Chaucer and His Contemporaries: Texts and Contexts. Edited by Laurel Amtower and Jacqueline Vanhoutte. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2009.

John Lydgate’s “Noble Devices” - Corey Sparks

John Lydgate: Mummings and Entertainments. Edited by Claire Sponsler. TEAMS Middle English Text Series. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2010.

Interlocking Genres: A New Approach to Surveys of Anglo-Saxon Literature - Eric R. Carlson

The Cambridge Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Literature. By Hugh Magennis.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Handling Medieval Literature - Thomas H. Crofts

The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English. Edited by Elaine Treharne and Greg Walker. Oxford: Oxford

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