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Publications of David Aers    :chronological  combined  bibtex listing:

Books

  1.  Salvation and Sin: Augustine and the Fourteenth Century. Notre Dame University Press, April, 2009.
  2.  Sanctifying Signs: Making Christian Tradition in Late Medieval England. Notre Dame University Press, 2004. 284 pp.
  3.  Faith, Ethics and Church: Writing in England 1360-1409. Brewer, 2000.
  4. with L. Staley. Powers of the Holy: politics and devotion 1350-1409. Penn State UP, 1996. (["The Humanity of Christ" is reprinted in Chaucer to Spenser: A Critical Reader, ed. Derek Pearsall (Blackwell, 1999)])
  5.  Community, Gender and Individual Identity in English Writing: 1360-1430. Routledge, 1988.
  6.  Chaucer. Harvester, 1985.
  7. with J. Cook, and D. Punter. Romanticism and Ideology . . . 1765-1850. Routledge KP, 1981.
  8. with B. Hodge, and G. Kress. Literature, Language and Society in England, 1580-1680. Gill and Macmillan, Barnes and Noble, 1981.
  9.  Chaucer, Langland, and the Creative Imagination. Routledge KP [Chapter one is reprinted in Medieval English Poetry, ed. S. Trigg (Longmans, 1993), 47-83], 1980.
  10.  Piers Plowman and Christian Allegory. Arnold, 1975.

Edited

  1. David Aers and Nigel Smith. english reformations. JMEMS  (2011).  [author's comments]
  2. with Nigel Smith. English Reformations. The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 40.3Duke University Press, (2010).
  3. with S. Beckwith and J. Simpson. Trans-Reformation Studies. Series of books, series entitled: Trans-Reformation Studies,  Notre Dame University Press, 2007
  4. with S. Beckwith. Reform and Cultural Revolution: Writing English Literary History 1350-1547. JMEMS 35.1 (2005).
  5.  Special issue: Hermeneutics and Ideology: Reading Medieval and Early Modern Texts. JMEMS 33.1 (2003).
  6. with S. Beckwith. Special issue: Sacrifice. JMEMS 31.3 (2001).
  7.  Medieval Literature and Historical Inquiry.  Brewer, 2000.
  8.  Special Issue: Christianities - medieval and early modern. JMEMS 27.2 (1997). (with preface)
  9. with A. Wharton. Special Issue: Desire: its subjects, objects and histories. JMEMS 27.3 (1997).
  10.  Special Issue: Historical Inquiries/Psychoanalytic Criticism/Gender Studies: with preface. JMEMS 26.2 (1996).
  11.  Culture and History: 1350-1600.  Harvester Wheatsheaf and Wayne State UP, 1992.
  12.  Medieval Literature: Criticism, Ideology and History.  Harvester, 1986.
  13.  Paradise Lost, Book VII.  Cambridge UP, 1974.

Essays/Articles/Chapters in Books

  1. with Sarah Beckwith. "The Eucharist." Cultural Reformations. Ed. Brian Cummings.  2010. 153-165.
  2. with Sarah Beckwith. "Discerning the Body." Ed. Brian Cummings and James Simpson. Oxford UP,  Collection on Medieval and Reformation Culture
  3. "The Beauty of the Infinite: A Question From the Margin." Theology Today 64 (2007): 139-149.
  4. "The Laborer's Two Bodies." Yearbook of Langland Studies. 19 2007. 226-236.
  5. "Langland." Oxford University Press Encyclopaedia on Medieval Literature.  forthcoming.
  6. "The Testimony of William Thorpe: Reflections on Self, Sin and Salvation." Studies in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Texts in Honor of John Scattergood. Ed. Anne Marie D'Arcy and Alan J. Fletcher. Four Courts Press, LTD., 2005. 21-34.
  7. "New Historicism and the Eucharist." JMEMS 33.2 (2003): 241-59.
  8. "Walter Brut's Theology of the Sacrament of the Altar." Lollards and Their Influence in Late Medieval England. Ed. Fiona Somerset et al. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2003. 115-126.
  9. "Wyclif, Poverty and the Poor." Yearbook of Langland Studies 17 (2003): 55-72.
  10. "Practices of growing old in the Middle Ages." The Christian Practice of Growing Old. Ed. S. Hauerwas. Eerdmans, 2003. 
  11. "The Sacrament of the Altar in Piers Plowman and the Late Medieval Church in England." Images, Idolatry, and Iconoclasm in Late Medieval England. Ed. J. Dimmick, J. Simpson, N. Zeeman. Oxford UP, 2002. 
  12. "Visionary Eschatology: Piers Plowman." Modern Theology 16 (2000): 3-17.
  13. "Chaucer's Tale of Melebee: Whose Virtues?." Medieval Literature and Historical Inquiry. Ed. D. Aers. Brewer, 2000. 
  14. "Interpreting Dreams: Reflections on Freud, Milton and Chaucer." Reading Dreams: The Interpretation of Dreams from Chaucer to Shakespeare. Ed. P. Brown. Oxford UP, 1999. 
  15. "Vox populi and the literature of 1381." Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature. Ed. D. Wallace. Cambridge UP, 1999. 
  16. "Faith, Ethics and Community: reflections on reading late medieval English writing." JMEMS 28 (1998): 345-75.
  17. "Written Work: Review Essay." YLS 12 (1998): 207-217.
  18. "Reflections on Gower as 'Sapiens in Ethics and Politics." Re-Visioning Gower. Ed. R.F. Yeager. Pegasus, 1998. 
  19. "Christianity for Courtly Subjects: Reflections on the Gawain-poet." A Companion to the Gawain-Poet. Ed. Derek Brewer. Brewer, Jan. 1997.
  20. "Preface to special issue: From Medieval Christianities to the Reformation." JMEMS 27 (1997): 139-143.
  21. "Preface to special issue on Historical Inquiries/Psychoanalytic Criticism/Gender Studies." JMEMS 26 (1996): 199-208.
  22. "Figuring forth the Body of Christ: Devotion and Politics." Essays in Medieval Studies 2 (1995): 1-14.
  23. "A Response [to K. Biddick, "Becoming Ethnographic"]." Essays in Medieval Studies 2 (1995): 38-41.
  24. "Representing the humanity of Christ: devotion and politics in Piers Plowman." Yearbook of Langland Studies 8 (1995): 107-125.
  25. "Altars of Power: Reflections on Eamon Duffy's The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England 1400-1580." Literature and History 3 (1994): 90-105.
  26. "Class, Gender, Medieval Criticism and Piers Plowman." Class and Gender in Early English Literature. Ed. Briton J. Harwood, Gillian R. Overing. Indiana UP, 1994. 
  27. "Justice and wage-labor after the Black Death: some perpexities for William Langland." The Work of Work: Servitude, Slavery and Labor in Medieval England. Ed. Allen J. Frantzen, Douglas Moffat. Cruithre Press, 1994. 
  28. "'Darke texts need notes': Versions of Self in Donne's verse Epistles." Critical Essays on John Donne. Ed. A.F. Marotti. Hall/MacMillan, 1994. 102-22. This is also to be reprinted in the New Casebooks collection on Donne, ed. A. Mousley (MacMillan, 1999), pp 122-34  [author's comments]
  29. "The Self-Mourning: Reflections on Pearl." Speculum: a Journal of Medieval Studies 68 (1993): 54-73.
  30. "Introduction and A Whisper in the Ear of Early Modernists." Culture and History. Ed. D. Aers.  1992. 
  31. "Medievalists and Deconstruction: An exemplum." From Medieval to Medievalism. Ed. John Simons. Macmillan, 1992. 
  32. "Reflections on current histories of the subject." Literature and History, second series 2 (1991): 20-34.
  33. "Chaucer's representations of marriage and sexual relations." Critical Essays on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Open University/Toronto UP, 1991, 1991. 205-13.
  34. "Reading Piers Plowman: Literature History and Criticism." Literature and History, second series 1 (1990): 4-23.
  35. "Humanism Historicized." Essays in Criticism 38 (1988): 325-334.
  36. "Rewriting the Middle Ages." Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 18 (1988): 221-40.
  37. "The Good Shepherds of Medieval Criticism." Southern Review 20 (1987): 168-189.
  38. "Representations of Revolution: from the French Revolution to The Four Zoas." Critical Paths: Blake and the Argument of Method. Ed. D. Miller, M. Bracher, D. Ault. Duke UP [reprinted in William Blake, ed. D. Punter (MacMillan, 1996)], 1987. 
  39. "Of propre kynde." English  (1986): 268-73.
  40. "Piers Plowman e le tradizioni di protesta sociale e religiosa." STORIA DELLA CIVILTA LETTERARIA INGLESE. Ed. Medieval Literature.  1986. 
  41. "Reflections on the Allegory of the Theologians, Ideology and Piers Plowman." Medieval Literature. Ed. D. Aers.  1986. 
  42. "Piers Plowman and Problems in the Perception of Poverty: a Culture in Transition." Leeds Studies in English 14 (1983): 5-25.
  43. "Coleridge and the egg that burke laid: ideological collusion and opposition in the 1790's." Literature and History 9 (1983): 152-63.
  44. "Representations of the Third Estate: Social Conflict and its Milieu around 1381." Southern Review 16 (1983): 335-49.
  45. "Strategies for Representing Revolution." 1789: Reading, Writing, Revolution. Ed. Francis Barker. University of Essex, 1982.   [author's comments]
  46. "The Parliament of Fowls: Authority, the knower and the known." Chaucer Review 16 (1982): 1-17.
  47. "The Politics of Style: Discourses of Law and Authority in Measure for Measure." Style 16 (1982): 22-37.  [author's comments]
  48. with G. Kress. "Historical Process, Individual and Communities in Milton's Early Prose." 1642: Literature and Power in the 17th Century. Ed. Francis Barker. University of Essex, 1981. 
  49. "Chaucer's Creseyde, Woman in Society, Woman in Love." Critical Essays on British Literature (reprinted from original 1980 article). Ed. T. Stillinger. (Simon and Schuster, 1998), 1980. 
  50. "Criseyde: Woman in Medieval Society." Chaucer Review 13reprinted in Critical Essays on Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, ed. C.D. Benson (Open University/Toronto UP, 1991), (1979): 177-200.
  51. with R. Hodge. "Rational Burning: Milton on Love, Sex and Marriage." Milton Studies 13[to be reprinted in the New Casebook on Paradise Lost, ed. W. Zunder (Macmillan)], (1979): 3-33.
  52. "Imagination and Ideology in Piers Plowman." Literature and History 7 (1978): 2-19.
  53. with G. Kress. "'Darke texts need notes': Versions of the Self in Donne's Verse Epistles." Literature and History 8 (1978): 2-19.
  54. "Chaucer's Book of the Duchess." Durham Univ. Journal 69 (1977): 201-210.
  55. "Blake and the Dialectics of Sex." ELH 44 (1977): 500-14.
  56. "Authority - Chaucer's Dream Poetry." Essays in Criticism 27 (1977): 159-62.

Book Reviews

  1.  Review of G. Margherita, The Romance of Origins: language and sexual difference in Middle English Literature.  Speculum 70 (1995): 933-36.
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