New Medieval Literatures is an annual containing the best new interdisciplinary work in medieval textual cultures. Volume 3 combines important work by established scholars with the results of the editors' quest for major new voices, including the prize-winning essay in their first competition for younger scholars. The themes of the volume are the production of knowledge and text, cultural change and exchange, from early medieval China to fifteenth-century England. There are also paired and contrasting essays on Dante and on Langland. The volume ends with Sarah Kay's important survey of modern medievalist scholarship, the New Philology.

David Lawton is Professor of English Literature, Washington University, St Louis

• Introduction: Production, Place, and Fantasy


• Dante in Somerset: Ghosts, Historiography, Periodization


• The Four Last Things in Dante and Chaucer: Ugolino in the House of Rumour


• Another Country: AElfric and the Production of English Identity


• Forgery at the University of Cambridge


• Rivalry and Reciprocity in Lydgate's Troy Book


• Reading Caxton: Transformations in Capital, Authority, Prints, and Persona in the Late Fifteenth Century


• 'Studying' in the Middle Ages-and in Piers Plowman


• School and Scorn: Gender in Piers Plowman


• Dirty Stories: Abjection in the Fabliaux


• Panoptican in her Bedroom: Voyeurism and the Concept of Space in the Love Lyrics of Early Medieval China


• Analytical Survery 3: The New Philology


• Index