Books by Alison (Ganze) Langdon
The essays in this interdisciplinary volume explore language, broadly construed, as part of the c... more The essays in this interdisciplinary volume explore language, broadly construed, as part of the continued interrogation of the boundaries of human and nonhuman animals in the Middle Ages. Uniting a diverse set of emerging and established scholars, Animal Languages questions the assumed medieval distinction between humans and other animals. The chapters point to the wealth of non-human communicative and discursive forms through which animals function both as vehicles for human meaning and as agents of their own, demonstrating the significance of human and non-human interaction in medieval texts, particularly for engaging with the Other. The book ultimately considers the ramifications of deconstructing the medieval anthropocentric view of language for the broader question of human singularity.
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More than a quarter century after its publication in English, Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose" remains a popular novel among medievalists and non-medievalists alike. Its riveting account of a series of murders at a wealthy Italian abbey during the papacy of John XXII, amidst the tensions of the Franciscan Spiritualist controversy, serves as an excellent point of entry to the cultural, philosophical, and theological milieu of fourteenth-century Europe. This collection of essays approaches the novel as a primary text in medieval studies courses and seeks to provide ways of integrating it into such courses effectively. Part One of the collection consists of essays addressing the pedagogical advantages and pitfalls of teaching "The Name of the Rose" in a variety of medieval courses, including literature, cultural studies, history, religious studies, art history, and manuscript studies. Serving as a bridge between the explicitly pedagogical essays that precede it and the critical essays that follow, Part Two of the volume explores the relationship between Eco's novel and Jean-Jacques Annaud's 1986 film version. The volume concludes with a selection of scholarly essays dealing with major medieval historical figures, movements, and cultural phenomena as they pertain to the novel, including fourteenth-century apocalyptic traditions, reflections on medieval language and sign theories, and the search for Aristotle's lost second book of Poetics. While each essay in the collection stresses its own disciplinary contexts and concerns, together they enrich each other, providing a valuable addition to the relatively small canon of texts on medieval pedagogy
Articles by Alison (Ganze) Langdon
Medieval Feminist Forum, 2018
Conventional humanist readings of Bisclavret approach the lai from an anthropocentric perspective... more Conventional humanist readings of Bisclavret approach the lai from an anthropocentric perspective, in which animal nature is merely an allegory for human nature. In such a reading, the werewolf protagonist is a foil for his much more beastly if wholly human wife, with the underlying assumption being that animal nature is something to be rejected. That the marker of Lady Bisclavret's bestial nature—her noselessness—is transmitted through the generations of only female descendants seems to echo medieval antifeminist truisms about female perfidy. However, approaching the lai from a critical animal studies perspective can help dismantle conventional assumptions about the privileged status of the human as well as assumptions regarding gender. I argue that Marie's lai resists not only the human/animal binary but also universalizing antifeminist readings of the wife.
Society & Animals, 2018
Medieval unease with human animality manifests itself strongly in attitudes toward and proscripti... more Medieval unease with human animality manifests itself strongly in attitudes toward and proscriptions concerning food sharing. This is particularly true with dogs, the nonhuman animals with whom humans most intimately share both the procurement and consumption of food and who are routinely figured as embodying many of the best and worst characteristics associated with humans. Through a range of late medieval texts this paper will probe the precarious boundary between human and nonhuman animals in the medieval imagination by considering the significance of food sharing in the portrait of Chaucer’s Prioress and her lapdogs in The Canterbury Tales, depictions of dogs in the hunt in medieval romance, and the strange tale of Sir Gowther, whose penance is to eat only what he receives from the mouth of a dog. Rather than supporting claims for an essential difference between human and animal, such examples further emphasize the fluidity of the two categories.
Enarratio 18 (2013)
A dog is in general sagacious, but particularly with respect to his master; for when he has for s... more A dog is in general sagacious, but particularly with respect to his master; for when he has for some time lost him in a crowd, he depends more upon his nose than upon his eyes; and, in endeavouring to find him, he first looks about, and then applies his nose, for greater certainty, to his clothes, as if nature had placed all the powers of infallibility in that feature.
Old English Newsletter 45.3 , 2015
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The Explicator 71.3 (2013), 21-24
Year's Work in Medievalism 27 (2012): 2-9
Enarratio 17 (2010): 61-76
Romance Notes, 2009
Erotic language in “Na Maria” has elicited interpretations ranging from arguments that the poem i... more Erotic language in “Na Maria” has elicited interpretations ranging from arguments that the poem is an expression of same-sex desire to outright denials of female authorship altogether. Understanding the poem within the context of the feudal exchange of service and reward offers another means by which to reconcile a female author with a female object of courtly devotion.
The Explicator 64.2 (Winter 2006), 86-89
Book Chapters by Alison (Ganze) Langdon
Postscript to the Middle Ages: Teaching Medieval Studies through The Name of the Rose (Syracuse University Press), 2009
Journal Issues by Alison (Ganze) Langdon
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 22.1 (2015)
Contents:
ALISON LANGDON AND DAVID SPRUNGER Introduction: Innovative Approaches To Teaching Ch... more Contents:
ALISON LANGDON AND DAVID SPRUNGER Introduction: Innovative Approaches To Teaching Chaucer
GLENN STEINBERG Teaching Chaucer through Chaucer’s Bookshelf
CANDACE BARRINGTON Teaching Chaucer in Middle English: A Fundamental Approach
MICHAEL MURPHY Chaucer: The Text and the Teaching Text
ROBERTA MILLIKEN Using Rap Music to Teach an Appreciation of Chaucer’s Language in the British Literature Survey Class
SARAH POWRIE Lost and Found in Translation: Updating Chaucer’s Status with the Millennial Generation
REBECCA BRACKMANN To Caunterbury They Tweete: Twitter in the Chaucer Classroom
MELISSA RIDLEY ELMES Prdn Me? Text Speak, Middle English, and Chaucer’s Pardoner’s Tale
Book Reviews by Alison (Ganze) Langdon
Medieval Feminist Forum 33 (Spring 2002), 55
eds. Arthurian Literature byWomen. New York and London: Garland, 1999.Pp. xiii + 382. This is a t... more eds. Arthurian Literature byWomen. New York and London: Garland, 1999.Pp. xiii + 382. This is a timely volume, given the surge in scholarly and popular interest in women's voices in the Arthurian tradition. The explicit purpose of this anthology is to explore the "rich and forgotten tradition" of women writers' contributions to the corpus of Arthurian literature, sketching a female lineage of literary descent that traces "certain traditions common to women writing on Arthurian themes" (xi, 4). While the foreword provides an overview of more familiar women authors such as Rosemary Sutcliffe, Mary Stewart, and Persia Wooley, in their selections of works to anthologize Lupack and Lupack choose to focus on lesser-known texts that are out of print or otherwise not easily accessible to most readers-a laudable decision, and the works collected here would bring much to a course on women and Arthuriana or a general Arthurian literature survey. For manageability the editors limit themselves primarily to poems and short stories, though they also include three longer texts-a novella, excerpts from a collection of linked stories, and a play. Beginning with a brief foray into the Middle Ages with two lais by Marie de France, newly translated by Norris Lacy, the anthology then moves to the early nineteenth century and proceeds through the 1990s. Concluding the volume are two very useful bibliographies of Arthurian literature by women, one devoted to fiction and the other to poetry and drama.
Call for Papers by Alison (Ganze) Langdon
Enarratio publishes articles on all fields of medieval studies, including but not limited to arch... more Enarratio publishes articles on all fields of medieval studies, including but not limited to archaeology, art, bibliography, history, language, literature, music, philosophy, religion, and science. Enarratio is published annually and is available by print subscription as well as open-access via Ohio State University Library’s Knowledge Bank platform.
Accepted articles generally range from 5000-9000 words. Authors are held to high standards of accuracy, currency, and relevance to the field. All papers are judged by at least two peer reviewers.
Contributors to Enarratio should follow the conventions of the Chicago Manual of Style with footnotes. Images in JPEG or TIF format are acceptable. Discursive notes should be held to a minimum to facilitate an easily readable text. Papers should be submitted blind, without the author's name appearing and without embedded comments from other reviewers. Electronic submissions are preferred. Contributors are expected to join MAM ($25) upon acceptance of an article.
Submissions may be addressed to either of the co-editors:
Alison Langdon, Department of English, Western Kentucky University
[email protected]
Kristin Bovaird-Abbo, Department of English, University of Northern Colorado
[email protected]
Books on subjects germane to medieval studies are welcome for review. If you have a book you would like reviewed or would like to write a review of a book, please contact the book review editor:
Audrey Becker, Department of English, Marygrove College
[email protected]
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Books by Alison (Ganze) Langdon
More than a quarter century after its publication in English, Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose" remains a popular novel among medievalists and non-medievalists alike. Its riveting account of a series of murders at a wealthy Italian abbey during the papacy of John XXII, amidst the tensions of the Franciscan Spiritualist controversy, serves as an excellent point of entry to the cultural, philosophical, and theological milieu of fourteenth-century Europe. This collection of essays approaches the novel as a primary text in medieval studies courses and seeks to provide ways of integrating it into such courses effectively. Part One of the collection consists of essays addressing the pedagogical advantages and pitfalls of teaching "The Name of the Rose" in a variety of medieval courses, including literature, cultural studies, history, religious studies, art history, and manuscript studies. Serving as a bridge between the explicitly pedagogical essays that precede it and the critical essays that follow, Part Two of the volume explores the relationship between Eco's novel and Jean-Jacques Annaud's 1986 film version. The volume concludes with a selection of scholarly essays dealing with major medieval historical figures, movements, and cultural phenomena as they pertain to the novel, including fourteenth-century apocalyptic traditions, reflections on medieval language and sign theories, and the search for Aristotle's lost second book of Poetics. While each essay in the collection stresses its own disciplinary contexts and concerns, together they enrich each other, providing a valuable addition to the relatively small canon of texts on medieval pedagogy
Articles by Alison (Ganze) Langdon
Book Chapters by Alison (Ganze) Langdon
Journal Issues by Alison (Ganze) Langdon
ALISON LANGDON AND DAVID SPRUNGER Introduction: Innovative Approaches To Teaching Chaucer
GLENN STEINBERG Teaching Chaucer through Chaucer’s Bookshelf
CANDACE BARRINGTON Teaching Chaucer in Middle English: A Fundamental Approach
MICHAEL MURPHY Chaucer: The Text and the Teaching Text
ROBERTA MILLIKEN Using Rap Music to Teach an Appreciation of Chaucer’s Language in the British Literature Survey Class
SARAH POWRIE Lost and Found in Translation: Updating Chaucer’s Status with the Millennial Generation
REBECCA BRACKMANN To Caunterbury They Tweete: Twitter in the Chaucer Classroom
MELISSA RIDLEY ELMES Prdn Me? Text Speak, Middle English, and Chaucer’s Pardoner’s Tale
Book Reviews by Alison (Ganze) Langdon
Call for Papers by Alison (Ganze) Langdon
Accepted articles generally range from 5000-9000 words. Authors are held to high standards of accuracy, currency, and relevance to the field. All papers are judged by at least two peer reviewers.
Contributors to Enarratio should follow the conventions of the Chicago Manual of Style with footnotes. Images in JPEG or TIF format are acceptable. Discursive notes should be held to a minimum to facilitate an easily readable text. Papers should be submitted blind, without the author's name appearing and without embedded comments from other reviewers. Electronic submissions are preferred. Contributors are expected to join MAM ($25) upon acceptance of an article.
Submissions may be addressed to either of the co-editors:
Alison Langdon, Department of English, Western Kentucky University
[email protected]
Kristin Bovaird-Abbo, Department of English, University of Northern Colorado
[email protected]
Books on subjects germane to medieval studies are welcome for review. If you have a book you would like reviewed or would like to write a review of a book, please contact the book review editor:
Audrey Becker, Department of English, Marygrove College
[email protected]
More than a quarter century after its publication in English, Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose" remains a popular novel among medievalists and non-medievalists alike. Its riveting account of a series of murders at a wealthy Italian abbey during the papacy of John XXII, amidst the tensions of the Franciscan Spiritualist controversy, serves as an excellent point of entry to the cultural, philosophical, and theological milieu of fourteenth-century Europe. This collection of essays approaches the novel as a primary text in medieval studies courses and seeks to provide ways of integrating it into such courses effectively. Part One of the collection consists of essays addressing the pedagogical advantages and pitfalls of teaching "The Name of the Rose" in a variety of medieval courses, including literature, cultural studies, history, religious studies, art history, and manuscript studies. Serving as a bridge between the explicitly pedagogical essays that precede it and the critical essays that follow, Part Two of the volume explores the relationship between Eco's novel and Jean-Jacques Annaud's 1986 film version. The volume concludes with a selection of scholarly essays dealing with major medieval historical figures, movements, and cultural phenomena as they pertain to the novel, including fourteenth-century apocalyptic traditions, reflections on medieval language and sign theories, and the search for Aristotle's lost second book of Poetics. While each essay in the collection stresses its own disciplinary contexts and concerns, together they enrich each other, providing a valuable addition to the relatively small canon of texts on medieval pedagogy
ALISON LANGDON AND DAVID SPRUNGER Introduction: Innovative Approaches To Teaching Chaucer
GLENN STEINBERG Teaching Chaucer through Chaucer’s Bookshelf
CANDACE BARRINGTON Teaching Chaucer in Middle English: A Fundamental Approach
MICHAEL MURPHY Chaucer: The Text and the Teaching Text
ROBERTA MILLIKEN Using Rap Music to Teach an Appreciation of Chaucer’s Language in the British Literature Survey Class
SARAH POWRIE Lost and Found in Translation: Updating Chaucer’s Status with the Millennial Generation
REBECCA BRACKMANN To Caunterbury They Tweete: Twitter in the Chaucer Classroom
MELISSA RIDLEY ELMES Prdn Me? Text Speak, Middle English, and Chaucer’s Pardoner’s Tale
Accepted articles generally range from 5000-9000 words. Authors are held to high standards of accuracy, currency, and relevance to the field. All papers are judged by at least two peer reviewers.
Contributors to Enarratio should follow the conventions of the Chicago Manual of Style with footnotes. Images in JPEG or TIF format are acceptable. Discursive notes should be held to a minimum to facilitate an easily readable text. Papers should be submitted blind, without the author's name appearing and without embedded comments from other reviewers. Electronic submissions are preferred. Contributors are expected to join MAM ($25) upon acceptance of an article.
Submissions may be addressed to either of the co-editors:
Alison Langdon, Department of English, Western Kentucky University
[email protected]
Kristin Bovaird-Abbo, Department of English, University of Northern Colorado
[email protected]
Books on subjects germane to medieval studies are welcome for review. If you have a book you would like reviewed or would like to write a review of a book, please contact the book review editor:
Audrey Becker, Department of English, Marygrove College
[email protected]