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. . . to the intellectual and scholarly roots of a professor emeritus of English. Over fifty years ago, I entered college, majoring in English with a romantic attachment to Medieval Studies that I had begun to cultivate during high school. By the time I was a senior, my interest had narrowed to the Middle
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. . . if not a name. Thanks to the skilled, diligent, and ingenious scholarship of the late Carter Revard, we know where (Ludlow and Hereford) and when (1314-1349) the Harley scribe was working (see in Fein, ed. [2000], pp. 21-109). Most Middle English MSS and their texts are anonymous, and usually only through internal
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Would it be more illuminating in understanding the Harley lyrics to shift the terms of thematic analysis from vernacular spirituality to indigenous spirituality? The term vernacular spirituality came to my attention through a special issue of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (which I’ve misplaced, and the JMEMS online presence only goes as
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Might a method from social sciences embracing both qualitative and quantitative collection and analysis of evidence be useful for medieval literary and cultural studies in our “post-theory” age? Grounded theory, an inductive method that eschews a priori theoretical frameworks in favor of a contingent, recursive, and comprehensive process in which the result is a theory
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BL MS Harley 2253 