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GCMS – Publications

Reading Medieval Studies

ISSN 0950 3129

The GCMS publishes a multi-disciplinary, peer-reviewed journal, Reading Medieval Studies. One issue is published annually. Guest editors are welcomed for either special or regular issues.

See the Table of Contents for details of current and past issues.

The journal was launched in 1975. Book reviews now appear as the E-journal Reading Medieval Reviews, edited by Anne Lawrence ().

You may order back copies of Reading Medieval Studies from .

Annual subscription: £15.00 payable on receipt of journal.

Contact:

Dr Catherine Léglu,

Department of French Studies,

University of Reading,

Whiteknights,

PO Box 218,

Reading, RG6 6AA

United Kingdom.

Email:

Guidelines for submissions:

Reading Medieval Studies welcomes articles that are longer than standard length. Your paper should be no longer than 10,000 words (including notes and bibliography).

You may submit your article either in hard copy or as an email attachment (see contact details below). For electronic copies, Microsoft Word is preferred to WordPerfect.

Articles are normally published in English.

The editors are committed to giving feedback on every submitted article within a delay of 8 weeks.

Style

Articles should be submitted in a standard font (e.g. Times New Roman), double-spaced, 12 point.

You should follow the MHRA Style Guide – download here: http://www.mhra.org.uk/Downloads/index.html.

However, as Reading Medieval Studies is a pluridisciplinary journal, there is some flexibility in order to take account of the conventions of different fields of research.

Please note that short quotations should be enclosed within single quotation marks and run on with the main text; longer quotations and lines of verse should be separated from the preceding and subsequent text and should be indented. Quotation marks are not required for these.

Quotations of medieval texts or in any language other than English should be translated, either in a note or (in the case of primary sources) immediately after the quotation.

All bibliographical references should appear in the notes. Unless specifically instructed otherwise, do not include a ‘Works cited’ section. Notes should appear as endnotes, not footnotes.

Bibliographical references

Books

First reference:

E. Ronsjö, La Vie de saint Nicolas par Wace, poème religieux du XIIe siècle publié d’apres tous les manuscrits, Etudes romanes de Lund 5 (Lund, Gleerup; Copenhagen, Munksgaard, 1942).

William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum Anglorum. The History of the English Kings. William of Malmesbury, ed. and trans. R. A. B. Mynors, R. A. Thomson and W. Winterbottom, 2 vols. (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1998-99), Book ii. 178.

Articles

a) in books, first reference:

E. M. C. van Houts, ‘The Adaptation of the Gesta Normannorum Ducum by Wace and Benoît’, in Non nova sed nove: Mélanges de civilisation médiévale dédiés à Willem Noomen, ed. M. Gosman and J. van Os (Groningen, Bouma’s Boekhuis, 1984), pp. 115-24 (for full article) or 115-24 (120) for reference to a particular point.

b) in journals, first reference:

Jean Blacker-Knight, ‘Wace’s craft and his audience: historical truth, bias and patronage in the Roman de Rou’, Kentucky Romance Quarterly, 31 (1984): 355-62 (for full article) or 355-62 (356-7) for reference to a particular point.

Subsequent references:

Ronsjö, p. 68.

Ronsjö, Nicolas, p. 68. (if more than one work by Ronsjö has been cited in the article)

William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum, Book ii. 178.

van Houts, p. 120.

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Forthcoming, Volume XXXV, 2009:

Contents of current and past issues:

Volume XXXIV, 2008

Medieval History Discourses: Essays in Honour of Professor Peter S. Noble, edited by Marianne J. Ailes, Anne Lawrence-Mathers and Françoise Le Saux

Marianne J. Ailes, ‘Ambroise’s Estoire de la Guerre Sainte and the development of a genre,’ 1-20

Peter Ainsworth, ‘Technologies nouvelles, manuscrits virtuels: La Guerre de Cent Ans à travers les Chroniques de Jean Froissart.’ 21-34

Malcolm Barber, ‘Was the Holy Land betrayed in 1291?’ 35-52

Philip E. Bennett, ‘Rhetoric, Poetics and History: Machaut’s Prise d’Alexandrie and the anonymous Geste des Ducs de Bourgogne,’ 53-76

Anne Curry, ‘The Battle Speeches of Henry V,’ 77-98

Phillipa Hardman, ‘Speaking of Roland: The Middle English Roland Fragment in MS Lansdowne 388,’ 99-122

Tony Hunt, ‘An Old French Crusade Proposal,’ 123-136

Catherine Léglu, ‘Rebuilding the Tower of Babel in Girart de Roussillon,’ 137-152

Linda M. Paterson, ‘Writing the Present: Boniface II of Montferrat and Frederick II Hohenstaufen,’ 153-168

Karen Pratt, ‘The Genre of Gautier d’Arras’ Eracle: A twelfth-century French ‘History’ of a Byzantine Emperor,’ 169-90

Françoise H. M. Le Saux, ‘La Geste des Trois Fils Guillaume? Henry I in Wace’s Roman de Rou,’ 191-208

Neil E. Thomas, ‘The History of a Talisman: The Quest for the Holy Lance from Chrétien de Troyes to Richard Wagner,’ 223-232

Volume XXXIII, 2007

Thomas Asbridge, ‘The Holy Lance of Antioch: Power, Devotion and Memory on the First Crusade,’ 3-36

Anthea Harris, ‘”Let Streams of Living Water Flow”: The Archaeology of a Secular Settlement in a Monastic Landscape,’ 37-68

Amanda Holton, ‘Chaucer and Pronominatio,’ 69-86

Anne Lawrence-Mathers, ‘The Problem of Magic in Early Anglo-Saxon England,’ 87-104

Penny Simons, ‘Literary and Historical Contexts: Possible Tools for Dating Joufroi de Poitiers,’ 105-132

Volume XXXII, 2006/7

Incipient Globalization? Long-distance contacts in the 6th century, edited by Anthea Harris. [Issued separately as British Archaeological Reports, International Series 1644 (Oxford: ArchaeoPress, 2007). ISBN 9781407300788.]

Anthea Harris, Introduction

Ken Dark, ‘Globalizing Late Antiquity: Models, metaphors and the realities of long-distance trade and diplomacy’

Charlotte Behr, ‘Using bracteates as evidence for long-distance contacts’

Mei Ling Chen, ‘The Importation of Byzantine and Sasanian Glass into China during the fourth to sixth centuries’

Susanne Bangert, ‘Menas ampullae: a case study of long-distance contacts’

Niall Finneran, ‘Ethiopian Christian material culture: the international context. Aksum, the Mediterranean and the Syriac worlds in the fifth to seventh centuries’

Kate da Costa, ‘The limits of long-distance exchange: evidence from sixth-century Palaestina/Arabia’

Jörg Drauschke, ‘‘Byzantine’ and ‘oriental’ imports in the Merovingian Empire from the second half of the fifth to the beginning of the eighth century’

Anthea Harris, ‘Archaeological methodology and long-distance contacts in the sixth century: Britain and China at opposite ends of the world’

Volume XXXI, 2005

C. Bratu, ‘The Æsthetics of the Chroniclers of the Fourth Crusade and the Gothic-Scholastic Episteme’, pp. 3-26

J. Kostenec, ‘Observations on the Great Palace at Constantinople’, pp. 27-56

J. Spence, ‘The Identity of Rauf de Boun, Author of the Petit Bruit’, pp. 57-76

A. Truelove, ‘Linguistic Diversity in the Fifteenth-Century Stonor Letters’, pp. 77-95

Volume XXX, 2004

Ferudun Özgümüs, 'A Byzantine church at Sirkeci in Istanbul'

Julian Luxford, 'The Tomb of King Henry I at Reading Abbey: New Evidence Concerning its Appearance and the Date of its Effigy'

Liz Herbert McAvoy, ''...The fend set him in my throte': Sexuality and the Fiendish Encounter in Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love'

Peter S. Noble, 'Women in the Vulgate Cycle: From Saints to Sorceresses'

Natasha Romanova, 'Female Doubling in Galeran de Bretagne'

Volume XXIX, 2003

Jane Chedzey, ‘Manuscript Production in Medieval Winchester,’ 1-18

Catherine A.M. Clarke, ‘Overhearing Complaint and the Dialectic of Consolation in Chaucer’s Verse,’ 19-30

Ken R. Dark, ‘Large-Scale Population Movements into and from Britain south of Hadrian’s Wall in the fourth to sixth centuries AD,’ 31-50

Helen Phillips, ‘“This Mystique Snow”: Dryden and The Flower and the Leaf,’ 51-70

Volume XXVIII, 2002

Marianne J. Ailes, ‘Fierabras and the Chanson de Roland: An Intertextual Dyptich,’ 3-22

Leslie C. Brook, ‘Demons and Angels: Female Portrayal in Escanor,’ 23-38

Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa, ‘Margery Kempe’s Mystical Marriage and Roman Sojourn: Influence of St Bridget of Sweden,’ 39-58

Robert L. Schichler, ‘From “Whale-Road” to “Gannet’s Bath”: Images of Foreign Relations of Exchange in Beowulf,’ 59-86

K. S. Whetter, ‘The Stanzaic Morte Arthur and Medieval Tragedy,’ 87-112

Volume XXVII, 2001

Current Trends in Dante Studies, edited by Claire E. Honess.

Zygmunt G. Baranski, ‘Three Notes on Dante and Horace,’ 5-38

Simon Gilson, ‘Medieval Science and Dante’s Commedia: Past Approaches and Future Directions,’ 39-78

Catherine Keen, ‘The Language of Exile in Dante,’ 79-102

Paola Nasti, ‘The Wise Poet: Solomon in Dante’s Heaven of the Sun,’ 103-137

Guyda Armstrong, ‘Dantean framing Devices in Boccacio’s Corbaccio,’ 139-162

Rachel Owen, ‘Dante’s Reception by fourteenth and fifteenth-century Illustrators of the Commedia,’ 163-226

Volume XXVI, 2000

Rosamund Allen, ‘The Awyntyrs off Arthure: Portraits and Property,’ 3-26

Benjamin Arnold, ‘The End of Territorial Lordship in medieval Germany: Reflections upon an historiographical theory,’ 27-48

Peter Damian-Grint, ‘Apocalyptic Prophecy in Old French: An Overview,’ 49-76

Ken R. Dark, ‘A Famous Arthur in the sixth century? Reconsidering the Origins of the Arthurian Legend,’ 77-96

Penny Eley, ‘The Subversion of Meaning in Hue de Rotelande’s Ipomedon,’ 97-112

Sarah L. Hamilton, ‘Tales of Wonder in the Chronica Maiora of Matthew Paris,’ 113-40

Andrea M.L. Williams, ‘Perspectives on the Grail: Subjectivity of Experience in the Queste del Saint Graal,’ 141-154

Volume XXV, 1999

Leslie C. Brook, ‘Rewards and Punishments in the De Amore and Kindred Texts,’ 3-16

Sally L. Burch, ‘The Lady, the Lords and the Priests: The Making and Unmaking of Marriage in Amadas et Ydoine,’ 17-32

Margaret J. Ehrhart, ‘Machaut’s Allegorical Narratives and the Roman de la Rose,’ 33-58

Philipa Hardman, ‘Dear Enemies: The Motif of the Converted Saracen and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,’ 59-74

Peter S. Noble, ‘Eyewitnesses of the Fourth Crusade: The War against Alexius III,’ 75-90

Robert Penkett, ‘Perceiving the Other: Sensory Phenomena and Experience in the early medieval Other World,’ 91-106

Victoria Thompson, ‘Kingship-in-Death in the Bayeux Tapestry,’ 107-121

Volume XXIV, 1998

Geoffrey Bromiley, ‘Stylistic Aspects of some Proper Names in some late French Arthurian Verse Romances,’ 3-24

Peter Damian-Grint, ‘Learning and Authority in Benoît de Sainte-Maure’s Cosmography,’ 25-52

Bonnie Millar, ‘Richard the Redeles and the Concept of Advice,’ 53-78

Robert Penkett, ‘Discerning the Divine and the Demonic in the Life of Anthony,’ 79-94

Mayumi Taguchi, ‘Cleanness and a hitherto unedited religious text in ms. Pepys 2125,’ 95-112

Rose Walker, ‘Sancha, Urraca and Elvira: The Virtues and Vices of Spanish Royal Women “Dedicated to God”,’ 113-138

Volume XXIII, 1997

Margaret J. Ehrhart, ‘Irony and Audience: What Machaut did not borrow from the Roman de la Rose,’ 3-34

Gillian R. Knight, ‘Uses and Abuses of Amicitia: The Correspondence between Peter the Venerable and Hato of Troyes,’ 35-68

Irina Metzler, ‘Perceptions of Hot Climate in Medieval Cosmography and Travel Literature,’ 69-106

Neil Thomas, ‘Gauvain’s Guilt in L’Âtre Périlleux: The Subtext of Sexual Abuse,’ 107-120

Rod Thomson, ‘William of Malmesbury: Historian of Crusade,’ 121-134

Anne Curry, ‘Review Article: Fifteenth-Century Historical Studies,’ 135-152

Volume XXII, 1996

Finn Sinclair, ‘Defending the Castle: Didactic Literature and the Containment of Female Sexuality’, 5-21

William Sayers, ‘Principled Women, Pressured Men: Nostalgia in Fljótsdœla saga’, 21-62

Catherine Léglu, ‘A Reading of Troubadour Insult Songs: The Comunals Cycle’, 63-84

Patricia Skinner, ‘Disputes and Disparity: Women at Court in Medieval Southern Italy,’ 85-106

Volume XX, 1995

Brian Golding, ‘Gerald of Wales and the Cistercians,’ XX1, 1995, 5-30

Anne Lawrence, ‘Cistercian Decoration: Twelfth-Century Legislation on Illumination and its Interpretation in England,’ 31-52

Neil M. Mancor, ‘Tradition in Bernard of Clairvaux’ Sermons on the Song of Songs,’ 53-67

Karen Pratt, ‘The Cistercians and the Queste del Saint Graal,’ 69-96