Publisher's Synopsis
An annual volume containing important new work, notes and reviews by scholars working in the field. This volume features an illustrated monograph by Kathleen Scott on Bodleian Library MS Douce 104, the only "Piers Plowman" manuscript to contain a complete illustrative programme. The issue also includes articles on "Piers" and the 14th-century agricultural crisis, and the relation of "Richard the Redeless" to "Mum and the Sothsegger". There are also four extended notes.;Contributors are Kathleen Scott, Robert Worth Frank Jr, Helen Barr, Alan Fletcher, J.A.Burrow, Ralph Hanna III, Kathleen Hewett-Smith, John Bowers, Hugh White, Andrew Galloway, David Lawton, Carol Meale and Vincent DiMarco.