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Publications of David Aers    :chronological  combined  bibtex listing:

Books

  1. Aers, D, Beyond reformation?: An essay on William Langland's Piers Plowman and the end of Constantinian Christianity (January, 2015), pp. 1-270, ISBN 9780268020460  [abs]
  2. Aers, D, Chaucer (1985), Harvester
  3. Aers, D, Chaucer, langland, and the creative imagination (November, 2017), pp. 1-236, Routledge KP, ISBN 9781138552876 [doi]  [abs]
  4. Christianities: Medieval and Early Modern, edited by Aers, D, vol. 27.2 no. 2 (1997) (with preface.)
  5. Aers, D, Community, Gender and Individual Identity in English Writing: 1360-1430 (1988), Routledge
  6. Culture and History: 1350-1600, edited by Aers, D (1992), Harvester Wheatsheaf and Wayne State UP
  7. Aers, D, Desire: Its Subjects, Objects, and Histories, edited by Aers, D; Wharton, A, vol. 27.3 no. 3 (1997)
  8. Aers, D, Faith, Ethics and Church: Writing in England 1360-1409 (2000), Brewer
  9. Beckwith, S, Hermeneutics and Ideology: Reading Medieval and Early Modern Texts, edited by Aers, D; Beckwith, S, vol. 33.1 no. 1 (2003)
  10. Historical Inquiries/Psychoanalytic Criticism/Gender Studies, edited by Aers, D, vol. 26.2 no. 2 (1996) (with preface.)
  11. with Aers, D; Hodge, B; Kress, G, Literature, Language and Society in England, 1580-1680 (1981), Gill and Macmillan, Barnes and Noble
  12. Medieval Literature and Historical Inquiry, edited by Aers, D (2000), Brewer
  13. Medieval Literature: Criticism, Ideology and History, edited by Aers, D (1986), Harvester
  14. Aers, D, Piers Plowman and Christian Allegory (1975), Arnold
  15. with Aers, D; Staley, L, Powers of the Holy: Politics and Devotion, 1350-1409 (1996), Penn State University Press (["The Humanity of Christ" is reprinted in Chaucer to Spenser: A Critical Reader, ed. Derek Pearsall (Blackwell, 1999)].)
  16. Beckwith, S, Reform and Cultural Revolution: Writing English Literary History 1350-1547, edited by Aers, D; Beckwith, S, vol. 35 (2005)
  17. with Aers, D; Cook, J; Punter, D, Romanticism and Ideology (1765-1850) (1981), Routledge KP
  18. Aers, D; Cook, J; Punter, D, Romanticism and ideology: Studies in english writing 1765-1830 (March, 2016), pp. 1-194, ISBN 9781138194410 [doi]  [abs]
  19. Aers, D, Routledge revivals: Community, gender, and individual identity (1988): English writing 1360-1430 (January, 2017), pp. 1-215, ISBN 9781138305670 [doi]  [abs]
  20. Beckwith, S, Sacrifice, edited by Aers, D; Beckwith, S, vol. 31.3 no. 3 (2001)
  21. Aers, D, Salvation and Sin: Augustine, Langland, and Fourteenth-Century Theology (April, 2009), pp. 1-284, Notre Dame University Press
  22. Aers, D, Sanctifying Signs: Making Christian Tradition in Late Medieval England (2004), pp. 284 pages, Notre Dame University Press
  23. Aers, D, Versions of Election From Langland and Aquinas to Calvin and Milton (November, 2020), pp. 324 pages, ISBN 9780268108656  [abs]

Edited

  1. Paradise Lost, Book VII (1974), Cambridge UP
  2. S. Beckwith and J. Simpson, ReFormations, Series of books in trans-Reformation studies (2007-), Notre Dame University Press (Books in series to date: Patricia Badir, "The Maudlin Impression: English Literary Images of Mary Magdalene, 1550–1700"; Robert W. Barrett, Jr., "Against All England: Regional Identity and Cheshire Writing, 1195–1656"; Alice Dailey, "The English Martyr: From Reformation to Revolution"; Clare Costley King'oo, "Miserere Mei: The Penitential Psalms in Late Medieval and Early Modern England"; Lynn Staley, "The Island Garden: England’s Language of Nation from Gildas to Marvell"; Nancy Bradley Warren, "The Embodied Word: Female Spiritualities, Contested Orthodoxies, and English Religious Cultures, 1350–1700".)
  3. Aers, D, Review of G. Margherita, The Romance of Origins: language and sexual difference in Middle English Literature, Speculum, vol. 70 (1995), pp. 933-36

Essays/Articles/Chapters in Books

  1. Aers, D, A Response [to K. Biddick, "Becoming Ethnographic"], Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 2 (1995), pp. 38-41
  2. Beckwith, S, Absent Presences: Resurrection Theatre in York, in Festschrift for Derek Pearsall, edited by Aers, D; Woodbridge, B; Brewer, (2000)
  3. Aers, D, Altars of Power: Reflections on Eamon Duffy's The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England 1400-1580, LITERATURE & HISTORY-THIRD SERIES, vol. 3 no. 2 (1994), pp. 90-105, SAGE Publications, ISSN 0306-1973 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  4. Aers, D, Authority - Chaucer’s Dream Poetry, Essays in Criticism, vol. 27 (1977), pp. 159-62
  5. Aers, D, Blake and the Dialectics of Sex, ELH, vol. 44 (1977), pp. 500-14
  6. Aers, D, Blake: Sex, society and ideology, in Romanticism and Ideology: Studies in English Writing 1765-1830 (March, 2016), pp. 27-43, ISBN 9781138194410  [abs]
  7. Aers, D, Calvinist Versions of God: A Revolution in Medieval Tradition, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, vol. 52 no. 3 (September, 2022), pp. 445-482 [doi]
  8. Aers, D, Chaucer: A European Life, by Marion TurnerHistorians on Chaucer: The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, ed. Stephen H. Rigby with Alastair J. Minnis, The English Historical Review, vol. 135 no. 575 (November, 2020), pp. 999-1003, Oxford University Press (OUP) [doi]
  9. Aers, D, Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess, Durham Univ. Journal, vol. 69 (1977), pp. 201-210
  10. Aers, D, Chaucer’s Creseyde, Woman in Society, Woman in Love, in Critical Essays on British Literature (reprinted from original 1980 article), edited by Stillinger, T (1980), (Simon and Schuster, 1998)
  11. Aers, D, Chaucer’s Representations of Marriage and Sexual Relations, in Critical Essays on Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (1991), pp. 205-13, Open University/Toronto UP
  12. Aers, D, Chaucer’s Tale of Melebee: Whose Virtues?, in Medieval Literature and Historical Inquiry: Essays in Honor of Derek Pearsall, edited by Aers, D (2000), Brewer
  13. Aers, D, Christianity for Courtly Subjects: Reflections on the Gawain-poet, in A Companion to the Gawain-Poet, edited by Brewer, D (January, 1997), Brewer
  14. Aers, D, Class, Gender, Medieval Criticism and Piers Plowman, in Class and Gender in Early English Literature, edited by Harwood, BJ; Overing, GR (1994), Indiana UP
  15. Aers, D, Coleridge and the egg that Burke laid: ideological collusion and opposition in the 1790's, Literature and History, vol. 9 no. 2 (1983), pp. 152-163, Manchester University Press, ISSN 0306-1973 [Gateway.cgi]
  16. Aers, D; Cook, J; Punter, D, Coleridge: Individual, community and social agency, in Romanticism and Ideology: Studies in English Writing 1765-1830 (March, 2016), pp. 82-102, ISBN 9781138194410  [abs]
  17. Aers, D, Community and morality: Towards reading Jane Austen, in Romanticism and Ideology: Studies in English Writing 1765-1830 (March, 2016), pp. 118-136, ISBN 9781138194410  [abs]
  18. Aers, D; Beckwith, S, Conversions, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, vol. 48 no. 3 (September, 2018), pp. 433-434, Duke University Press [doi]
  19. Aers, D, Criseyde: Woman in Medieval Society, Chaucer Review: a journal of medieval studies and literary criticism, vol. 13 no. 3 (1979), pp. 177-200, Penn State University Press, ISSN 1528-4204 [Gateway.cgi]
  20. Aers, D; Beckwith, S, Discerning the Body, in Collection on Medieval and ReformationCulture, edited by Cummings, B; Simpson, J (2008), Oxford UP
  21. Aers, D; Smith, N, English reformations, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, vol. 40 no. 3 (September, 2010), pp. 425-438, Duke University Press, ISSN 1082-9636 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs]
  22. Aers, D; Smith, N, English Reformations: Historiography, Theology, and Narrative, edited by Aers, D; Smith, N, JMEMS, vol. 40 (2010), Princeton University Press
  23. Aers, D; Pfau, T, Exploring Christian Literature in the Contemporary and Secular University, Christianity and Literature, vol. 70 no. 3 (September, 2021), pp. 263-275  [abs]
  24. Aers, D, Faith, ethics, and community: Reflections on reading late medieval English writing, JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN STUDIES, vol. 28 no. 2 (1998), pp. 341-369, ISSN 1082-9636 [Gateway.cgi]
  25. Aers, D, Figuring forth the Body of Christ: Devotion and Politics, vol. 2 (1995), pp. 1-14
  26. Aers, D, Historians on Chaucer: The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW, vol. 135 no. 575 (2020), pp. 999-1003
  27. Aers, D; Kress, G, Historical Process, Individual and Communities in Milton’s Early Prose, in 1642: Literature and Power in the 17th Century, edited by Barker, F (1981), University of Essex
  28. Aers, D, Humanism Historicized, Essays in Criticism, vol. 38 (1988), pp. 325-334
  29. Aers, D, Imagination and Ideology in 'Piers Plowman', Literature and History, vol. 7 no. 7 (1978), pp. 2-19, Manchester University Press, ISSN 0306-1973 [Gateway.cgi]
  30. Aers, D; Beckwith, S, Imagining the Virtues: Medieval and Early Modern Histories, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, vol. 52 no. 3 (September, 2022), pp. 407-413 [doi]
  31. Aers, D, Interpreting Dreams: Reflections on Freud, Milton and Chaucer, in Reading Dreams: The Interpretation of Dreams from Chaucer to Shakespeare, edited by Brown, P (1999), Oxford UP
  32. Aers, D; Cook, J; Punter, D, Introduction, in Romanticism and Ideology: Studies in English Writing 1765-1830 (March, 2016), pp. 1-6, ISBN 9781138194410  [abs]
  33. Aers, D; Beckwith, S, Introduction, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, vol. 31 no. 3 (September, 2001), pp. 443-444, Duke University Press, ISSN 1082-9636 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  34. Aers, D, Introduction and A Whisper in the Ear of Early Modernists, in Culture and History, edited by Aers, D (1992)
  35. Aers, D, Justice and wage-labor after the Black Death: some perpexities for William Langland, in The Work of Work: Servitude, Slavery and Labor in Medieval England, edited by Frantzen, AJ; Moffat, D (1994), Cruithre Press
  36. Aers, D, Langland, in Oxford University Press Encyclopaedia on Medieval Literature (2006)
  37. Aers, D, Langland on the church and the end of the cardinal virtues, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, vol. 42 no. 1 (December, 2012), pp. 59-81, Duke University Press, ISSN 1082-9636 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs]
  38. Aers, D, Medievalists and Deconstruction: An exemplum, in From Medieval to Medievalism, edited by Simons, J (1992), Macmillan
  39. Aers, D, Of propre kynde, English (1986), pp. 268-73
  40. Aers, D, Piers Plowman and Problems in the Perception of Poverty: a Culture in Transition, Leeds Studies in English, vol. 14 (1983), pp. 5-25
  41. Aers, D, Piers Plowman e le tradizioni di protesta sociale e religiosa, in STORIA DELLA CIVILTA LETTERARIA INGLESE, edited by Medieval Literature (1986)
  42. Aers, D, Practices of growing old in the Middle Ages, in The Christian Practice of Growing Old, edited by Hauerwas, S (2003), Eerdmans
  43. Aers, D, Preface + From medieval Christianities to the Reformations, JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN STUDIES, vol. 27 no. 2 (1997), pp. 139-143, ISSN 1082-9636 [Gateway.cgi]
  44. Aers, D, Preface to special issue on Historical Inquiries/Psychoanalytic Criticism/Gender Studies, JMEMS, vol. 26 (1996), pp. 199-208
  45. Aers, D, Preface to special issue: From Medieval Christianities to the Reformation, JMEMS, vol. 27 (1997), pp. 139-143
  46. Aers, D; Hodge, R, Rational Burning: Milton on Love, Sex and Marriage, Milton Studies, vol. 13 (1979), pp. 3-33, [to be reprinted in the New Casebook on Paradise Lost, ed. W. Zunder (Macmillan)]
  47. Aers, D, Reading Piers Plowman: Literature History and Criticism, Literature and History, vol. 1 no. 1 (1990), pp. 4-23, Manchester University Press, ISSN 0306-1973 [Gateway.cgi]
  48. Aers, D, Reflections on Current Histories of the Subject, Literature and History, vol. 2 no. 2 (1991), pp. 20-34, Manchester University Press, ISSN 0306-1973 [Gateway.cgi]
  49. Aers, D, Reflections on Gower as ’Sapiens in Ethics and Politics, in Re-Visioning Gower, edited by Yeager, RF (1998), Pegasus
  50. Aers, D, Reflections on the Allegory of the Theologians, Ideology and Piers Plowman, in Medieval Literature, edited by Aers, D (1986)
  51. Aers, D; Beckwith, S, Reform and cultural revolution: Introduction, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, vol. 35 no. 1 (January, 2005), pp. 3-12, Duke University Press, ISSN 1082-9636 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  52. Aers, D; Hauerwas, S, Reformation is Sin., Perspectives, vol. 11 no. 8 (October, 1996), pp. 10-11, ISSN 0888-5281 [login.aspx]
  53. Aers, D, Representations of Revolution: from the French Revolution to The Four Zoas, in Critical Paths: Blake and the Argument of Method, edited by Miller, D; Bracher, M; Ault, D (1987), Duke University Press
  54. Aers, D, Representations of the Third Estate: Social Conflict and its Milieu around 1381, Southern Review, vol. 16 no. 3 (1983), pp. 335-349, ISSN 0038-4526 [Gateway.cgi]
  55. Aers, D, Representing the humanity of Christ: devotion and politics in Piers Plowman, Yearbook of Langland Studies, vol. 8 (1995), pp. 107-125
  56. Aers, D, Review of 'Piers Plowman' and the Problem of Belief by B. Harwood, MEDIUM AEVUM, vol. 62 no. 2 (1993), pp. 321-322, ISSN 0025-8385 [Gateway.cgi]
  57. Aers, D, Review of 'The Canterbury Tales' (Oxford Guides to Chaucer) by Helen Cooper, Medium Aevum, vol. 60 no. 1 (1991), pp. 116-118, ISSN 0025-8385 [Gateway.cgi]
  58. Aers, D, Review of 'The Canterbury Tales' by Pearsall, English, vol. 35 no. 153 (1986), pp. 268-273, ISSN 0013-8215 [Gateway.cgi]
  59. Aers, D, Review of An Ars Legendi for Chaucer's Canterbury Tales by Dolores Warwick Freese, Medium Aevum, vol. 61 no. 2 (1992), pp. 318-319, ISSN 0025-8385 [Gateway.cgi]
  60. Aers, D, Review of Changing the Signs: The 15th Century Breakthrough by A. Cook, Word and Image, vol. 2 no. 4 (1986), pp. 390-391, ISSN 1943-2178 [Gateway.cgi]
  61. Aers, D, Review of Chaucerian Belief: The Poetics of Reverence and Delight by JM Hill, Medium Aevum, vol. 61 no. 1 (1992), pp. 126-128, ISSN 0025-8385 [Gateway.cgi]
  62. Aers, D, Review of Gender and Romance in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales by Susan Crane, Medium Aevum, vol. 64 no. 2 (1995), pp. 316-318, ISSN 0025-8385 [Gateway.cgi]
  63. Aers, D, Review of Hochon's Arrow: The Social Imagination of 14th Century Texts by Paul Strohm, MEDIUM AEVUM, vol. 62 no. 2 (1993), pp. 332-334, ISSN 0025-8385 [Gateway.cgi]
  64. Aers, D, Review of Medieval Dream Poetry by A.C. Spearling, Essays in Criticism: a quarterly journal of literary criticism, vol. 27 no. 2 (1977), pp. 157-162, Oxford University Press (OUP), ISSN 1471-6852 [Gateway.cgi]
  65. Aers, D, Review of Milton, a Structural Reading by DF Bouchard, Journal of European Studies (Chalfont Saint Giles), vol. 5 no. 2 (1975), pp. 195-196, ISSN 1740-2379 [Gateway.cgi]
  66. Aers, D, Review of Negotiating the Past: The Historical Understanding of Medieval Literature by L. Patterson, Essays in Criticism: a quarterly journal of literary criticism, vol. 38 no. 4 (October, 1988), pp. 325-334, Oxford University Press (OUP), ISSN 1471-6852 [Gateway.cgi]
  67. Aers, D, Review of Re-Reading English by P Widdowson, Literature and History, vol. 9 no. 2 (1983), pp. 256-257, Manchester University Press, ISSN 0306-1973 [Gateway.cgi]
  68. Aers, D, Review of The Age of Saturn: Literature and History in The Canterbury Tales by P. Brown and A. Butcher, Medium Aevum, vol. 61 no. 2 (1992), pp. 318-319, ISSN 0025-8385 [Gateway.cgi]
  69. Aers, D, Review of The Language of Chaucer by D. Burnley, Literature and History, vol. 1 no. 2 (1990), pp. 88-89, Manchester University Press, ISSN 0306-1973 [Gateway.cgi]
  70. Aers, D, Review of The Poor In The Middle Ages: An Essay in Social History by M. Mollatt, Science & Society, vol. 52 no. 2 (1988), pp. 243-246, ISSN 0036-8237 [Gateway.cgi]
  71. Aers, D, Review of The Poor in the Middle Ages: An Essay in Social History [Les Pauvres au Moyen Age, Hachette, 1978] by Michel Mollat; Arthur Goldhammer, Science & Society, vol. 52 (July, 1988), pp. 243-246, ISSN 0036-8237 [40402878]
  72. Aers, D, Review of Truth and Textuality in Chaucer Poetry by LJ Kiser, Medium Aevum, vol. 61 no. 1 (1992), pp. 126-128, ISSN 0025-8385 [Gateway.cgi]
  73. Aers, D, Rewriting the Middle Ages, Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, vol. 18 (1988), pp. 221-40
  74. Aers, D, Rewriting the Middle Ages, Some Suggestions, Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, vol. 18 no. 2 (1988), pp. 221-240 [Gateway.cgi]
  75. Beckwith, S, Sacrifice: Medieval and Early Modern, edited by Aers, D; Beckwith, S, JMEMS, vol. 31 (2001)
  76. Aers, D, Salvation and sin: Augustine, Langland, and fourteenth-century theology, Salvation and Sin: Augustine, Langland, and Fourteenth-Century Theology (2009), pp. 1-284  [abs]
  77. Aers, D, Strategies for Representing Revolution, in 1789: Reading, Writing, Revolution, edited by Barker, F (1982), University of Essex  [author's comments]
  78. Aers, D; Beckwith, S, The Eucharist, in Cultural Reformations, edited by Simpson, J; Cummings, B (2011), Oxford University Press
  79. Aers, D, The Good Shepherds of Medieval Criticism, Southern Review, vol. 20 (1987), pp. 168-189
  80. Aers, D, The Laborer’s Two Bodies, in Yearbook of Langland Studies, vol. 19 (2007), pp. 226-236
  81. Aers, D, The Parliament of Fowls: Authority, the knower and the known, Chaucer Review: a journal of medieval studies and literary criticism, vol. 16 no. 1 (1981), pp. 1-17, Penn State University Press, ISSN 1528-4204 [Gateway.cgi]
  82. Aers, D; Kress, G, The Politics of Style: Discourses of Law and Authority in Measure for Measure, Style, vol. 16 no. 1 (1982), pp. 22-37, ISSN 0039-4238 [Gateway.cgi]  [author's comments]
  83. Aers, D, The Sacrament of the Altar in Piers Plowman and the Late Medieval Church in England, in Images, Idolatry, and Iconoclasm in Late Medieval England, edited by Dimmick, J; Simpson, J; Zeeman, N (2002), Oxford UP
  84. Aers, D, The Self-Mourning: Reflections on Pearl, Speculum: a Journal of Medieval Studies, vol. 68 (1993), pp. 54-73
  85. Aers, D, The Testimony of William Thorpe: Reflections on Self, Sin and Salvation, in Studies in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Texts in Honor of John Scattergood, edited by Arcy, AMD; Fletcher, AJ (2005), pp. 21-34, Four Courts Press, LTD.
  86. Aers, D, This is my body. The presence of Christ in Reformation thought. By Thomas J. Davis. Pp. 203 incl. 5 ills. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2008. $24.99 (paper). 978 0 8010 3245 5, The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, vol. 60 no. 2 (April, 2009), pp. 368-368, Cambridge University Press (CUP), ISSN 0022-0469 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  87. Aers, D; Leo, R, Unintended Reformations?, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, vol. 46 no. 3 (September, 2016), pp. 455-483, Duke University Press [doi]
  88. Aers, D, Visionary Eschatology: Piers Plowman, Modern Theology, vol. 16 no. 1 (January, 2000), pp. 3-17, WILEY [doi]  [abs]
  89. Aers, D, Vox Populi and the Literature of 1381, in Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature, edited by Wallace, D (1999), Cambridge UP
  90. Aers, D, Walter Brut’s Theology of the Sacrament of the Altar, in Lollards and Their Influence in Late Medieval England, edited by Somerset, F; Havens, J; Pitard, D (2003), pp. 115-126, Woodbridge: Boydell
  91. Aers, D, What is charity? William Langland’s answers with some diachronic questions, Religions, vol. 10 no. 8 (August, 2019) [doi]  [abs]
  92. Aers, D, William Blake and the Dialectics of Sex, ELH: English Literary History, vol. 44 no. 3 (1977), pp. 500-514, Johns Hopkins University Press, ISSN 1080-6547 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  93. Aers, D, Wordsworth's model of man in 'The Prelude', in Romanticism and Ideology: Studies in English Writing 1765-1830 (March, 2016), pp. 64-81, ISBN 9781138194410  [abs]
  94. Aers, D, Written Work: Review Essay, YLS, vol. 12 (1998), pp. 207-217
  95. Aers, D, Wyclif, Poverty and the Poor, Yearbook of Langland Studies, vol. 17 (2003), pp. 55-72
  96. Aers, D, ’Darke texts need notes’: Versions of Self in Donne’s verse Epistles, in Critical Essays on John Donne, edited by Marotti, AF (1994), pp. 102-22, Hall/MacMillan (This is also to be reprinted in the New Casebooks collection on Donne, ed. A. Mousley (MacMillan, 1999), pp 122-34.)  [author's comments]
  97. Aers, D, ’Darke texts need notes’: Versions of the Self in Donne’s Verse Epistles, Literature and History, vol. 8 (1978), pp. 2-19

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