Katharine W. Jager is a poet and medieval scholar. She is Associate Professor of English at the University of Houston-Downtown, USA, and has published essays on medieval aesthetics, the masculine performativity of chivalric speech acts, onomatopoeia and multimodality in alliterative verse, and aurality in late medieval English poetry, among other subjects.
Introduction. 1-23
Section I. The Peasants' RebellioN As SENSORY event.
Chapter 1,
"The Weight of Experience: John Gower and the Peasants' Revolt"
Joel D. Anderson .........................................................................................................
Chapter 2,
"'Stonde Manlyche togedyr in Trewthe': Lyric and Rebellion Among Late Medieval Men"
Chapter 3, "On Bells and Rebellion: The Auditory Imagination and Social Reform, Medieval and Modern"
Adin Lears.
Section II. AESTHETIC RECEPTION: Music and the Multimodal manuscript..
Chapter 4,
"High or Low?: Medieval English Carols as Part of Vernacular Culture, 1380-1450"
Chapter 5,
"Rethinking the Passion Lyric: Verbal Devotion, Narrative Variation, and the Poetics of Comfort in Middle English Poetry"
Barbara Zimbalist....................................................................................................
Chapter 6,
"Multimodality and Memory in the Mise-en-page of Guillaume de Machaut's Mass"
Kate Maxwell.
Chapter 1, Introduction: Past Vernaculars: The Aesthetic and the Everyday
Katherine W. Jager
SECTION I: THE PEASANTS' REBELLION AS SENSORY EVENT
Chapter 2,
"The Weight of Experience: John Gower and the Peasants' Revolt"
Joel D. Anderson
Chapter 3,
"'Stonde Manlyche togedyr in Trewthe': Lyric and Rebellion Among Late Medieval Men"
Katharine W. Jager
Chapter 4, "On Bells and Rebellion: The Auditory Imagination and Social Reform, Medieval and Modern"
Adin Lears
Section II. AESTHETIC RECEPTION: Music and the Multimodal manuscript.
Chapter 5,
"High or Low?: Medieval English Carols as Part of Vernacular Culture, 1380-1450"
Lisa Colton and Louise Mcinnes
Chapter 6,
"Rethinking the Passion Lyric: Verbal Devotion, Narrative Variation, and the Poetics of Comfort in Middle English Poetry"
Barbara Zimbalist....................................................................................................
Chapter 7,
"Multimodality and Memory in the Mise-en-page of Guillaume de Machaut's Mass"
Kate Maxwell
Section III. Vernacular Practice: Alchemy, Aesthetics, Affect
Chapter 8,
"Alchemical Language: Latin and the Vernacular in the Poetry of Thomas Norton and John Gower"
David Hadbawnik
Chapter 9,
"Vernacular 'Makynge,' Jack Upland, and the Aesthetics of Antfraternalism
Noëlle Phillips
Chapter 10,
"Read It and Weep: Affective and Literate Engagement in Richard Rolle's Meditations and The Book of Margery Kempe"
Jessica Barr