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Publications of David Aers    :chronological  alphabetical  combined  bibtex listing:

Books

  1. Aers, D. Community, Gender, and Individual Identity: English Writing 1360-1430. Routledge, January, 2024. 1-215 pp. [doi]  [abs]
  2. Aers, D. Versions of Election From Langland and Aquinas to Calvin and Milton. November, 2020. 324 pages pp.  [abs]
  3. Aers, D. Chaucer, langland, and the creative imagination. Routledge KP, November, 2017. 1-236 pp. [doi]  [abs]
  4. Aers, D. Routledge revivals: Community, gender, and individual identity (1988): English writing 1360-1430. January, 2017. 1-215 pp. [doi]  [abs]
  5. Aers, D; Cook, J; Punter, D. Romanticism and ideology: Studies in english writing 1765-1830. March, 2016. 1-194 pp. [doi]  [abs]
  6. Aers, D. Beyond reformation?: An essay on William Langland's Piers Plowman and the end of Constantinian Christianity. January, 2015. 1-270 pp.  [abs]
  7. Aers, D. Salvation and Sin: Augustine, Langland, and Fourteenth-Century Theology. Notre Dame University Press, April, 2009. 1-284 pp.
  8. Beckwith, S. Reform and Cultural Revolution: Writing English Literary History 1350-1547. Edited by Aers, D; Beckwith, S.35  2005.
  9. Aers, D. Sanctifying Signs: Making Christian Tradition in Late Medieval England. Notre Dame University Press, 2004. 284 pages pp.
  10. Beckwith, S. Hermeneutics and Ideology: Reading Medieval and Early Modern Texts. Edited by Aers, D; Beckwith, S.33.1.1 2003.
  11. Beckwith, S. Sacrifice. Edited by Aers, D; Beckwith, S.31.3.3 2001.
  12. Aers, D. Faith, Ethics and Church: Writing in England 1360-1409. Brewer, 2000.
  13.  Medieval Literature and Historical Inquiry. Edited by Aers, D. Brewer, 2000.
  14. Aers, D. Desire: Its Subjects, Objects, and Histories. Edited by Aers, D; Wharton, A.27.3.3 1997.
  15.  Christianities: Medieval and Early Modern. Edited by Aers, D.27.2.2 1997. (with preface)
  16. with Aers, D; Staley, L. Powers of the Holy: Politics and Devotion, 1350-1409. Penn State University Press, 1996. (["The Humanity of Christ" is reprinted in Chaucer to Spenser: A Critical Reader, ed. Derek Pearsall (Blackwell, 1999)])
  17.  Historical Inquiries/Psychoanalytic Criticism/Gender Studies. Edited by Aers, D.26.2.2 1996. (with preface)
  18.  Culture and History: 1350-1600. Edited by Aers, D. Harvester Wheatsheaf and Wayne State UP, 1992.
  19.  Medieval Literature: Criticism, Ideology and History. Edited by Aers, D. Harvester, 1986.
  20. Aers, D. Chaucer. Harvester, 1985.
  21. with Aers, D; Hodge, B; Kress, G. Literature, Language and Society in England, 1580-1680. Gill and Macmillan, Barnes and Noble, 1981.
  22. with Aers, D; Cook, J; Punter, D. Romanticism and Ideology (1765-1850). Routledge KP, 1981.
  23. Aers, D. Piers Plowman and Christian Allegory. Arnold, 1975.

Edited

  1. S. Beckwith and J. Simpson. ReFormations. Series of books in trans-Reformation studies,  Notre Dame University Press, 2007-  (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")
  2. Aers, D. Review of G. Margherita, The Romance of Origins: language and sexual difference in Middle English Literature. Speculum 70  (1995): 933-36.
  3.  Paradise Lost, Book VII.  Cambridge UP, 1974.

Essays/Articles/Chapters in Books

  1. Aers, D. "The Letter Kills but the Spirit Gives Life (2 Corinthians 3:6): Or, What Happened to Enemy Love?." Form and Power in Medieval and Early Modern Literature.  2024. 275-292.
  2. Aers, D. "What is Synne?: Exploring Julian of Norwich’s Question." New Directions in Medieval Mystical and Devotional Literature: Essays in Honor of Denise N. Baker. LeHigh University Press, 2023. 11-28.
  3. Aers, D. "Calvinist Versions of God: A Revolution in Medieval Tradition." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 52.3 (September, 2022): 445-482. [doi]
  4. Aers, D; Beckwith, S. "Imagining the Virtues: Medieval and Early Modern Histories." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 52.3 (September, 2022): 407-413. [doi]
  5. Aers, D; Pfau, T. "Exploring Christian Literature in the Contemporary and Secular University." Christianity and Literature 70.3 (September, 2021): 263-275. [doi]  [abs]
  6. 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 135.575Oxford University Press (OUP), (November, 2020): 999-1003. [doi]
  7. Aers, D. "Historians on Chaucer: The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales." ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW 135.575 (2020): 999-1003.
  8. Aers, D. "What is charity? William Langland’s answers with some diachronic questions." Religions 10.8 (August, 2019) [doi]  [abs]
  9. Aers, D; Beckwith, S. "Conversions." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 48.3Duke University Press, (September, 2018): 433-434. [doi]
  10. Aers, D; Leo, R. "Unintended Reformations?." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 46.3Duke University Press, (September, 2016): 455-483. [doi]
  11. Aers, D; Cook, J; Punter, D. "Introduction." Romanticism and Ideology: Studies in English Writing 1765-1830.  2016. 1-6.  [abs]
  12. Aers, D. "Blake: Sex, society and ideology." Romanticism and Ideology: Studies in English Writing 1765-1830.  2016. 27-43.  [abs]
  13. Aers, D. "Community and morality: Towards reading Jane Austen." Romanticism and Ideology: Studies in English Writing 1765-1830.  2016. 118-136.  [abs]
  14. Aers, D; Cook, J; Punter, D. "Coleridge: Individual, community and social agency." Romanticism and Ideology: Studies in English Writing 1765-1830.  2016. 82-102.  [abs]
  15. Aers, D. "Wordsworth's model of man in 'The Prelude'." Romanticism and Ideology: Studies in English Writing 1765-1830.  2016. 64-81. [doi]  [abs]
  16. Aers, D. "Langland on the church and the end of the cardinal virtues." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 42.1Duke University Press, (December, 2012): 59-81. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs]
  17. Aers, D; Beckwith, S. "The Eucharist." Cultural Reformations. Ed. Simpson, J; Cummings, B. Oxford University Press, 2011. 
  18. Aers, D; Smith, N. "English reformations." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 40.3Duke University Press, (September, 2010): 425-438. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs]
  19. Aers, D; Smith, N. "English Reformations: Historiography, Theology, and Narrative." JMEMS Ed. Aers, D; Smith, N. 40Princeton University Press, (2010)
  20. 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 60.2Cambridge University Press (CUP), (April, 2009): 368-368. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  21. Aers, D. "Salvation and sin: Augustine, Langland, and fourteenth-century theology." Salvation and Sin: Augustine, Langland, and Fourteenth-Century Theology  (2009): 1-284.  [abs]
  22. Aers, D; Beckwith, S. "Discerning the Body." Collection on Medieval and ReformationCulture. Ed. Cummings, B; Simpson, J. Oxford UP, 2008. 
  23. Aers, D. "The Laborer’s Two Bodies." Yearbook of Langland Studies. 19 2007. 226-236.
  24. Aers, D. "Langland." Oxford University Press Encyclopaedia on Medieval Literature.  2006. 
  25. Aers, D; Beckwith, S. "Reform and cultural revolution: Introduction." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 35.1Duke University Press, (January, 2005): 3-12. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  26. Aers, D. "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. Arcy, AMD; Fletcher, AJ. Four Courts Press, LTD., 2005. 21-34.
  27. Aers, D. "Practices of growing old in the Middle Ages." The Christian Practice of Growing Old. Ed. Hauerwas, S. Eerdmans, 2003. 
  28. Aers, D. "Wyclif, Poverty and the Poor." Yearbook of Langland Studies 17 (2003): 55-72.
  29. Aers, D. "Walter Brut’s Theology of the Sacrament of the Altar." Lollards and Their Influence in Late Medieval England. Ed. Somerset, F; Havens, J; Pitard, D. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2003. 115-126.
  30. Aers, D. "The Sacrament of the Altar in Piers Plowman and the Late Medieval Church in England." Images, Idolatry, and Iconoclasm in Late Medieval England. Ed. Dimmick, J; Simpson, J; Zeeman, N. Oxford UP, 2002. 
  31. Aers, D; Beckwith, S. "Introduction." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 31.3Duke University Press, (September, 2001): 443-444. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  32. Beckwith, S. "Sacrifice: Medieval and Early Modern." JMEMS Ed. Aers, D; Beckwith, S. 31 (2001)
  33. Aers, D. "Visionary Eschatology: Piers Plowman." Modern Theology 16.1WILEY, (January, 2000): 3-17. [doi]  [abs]
  34. Aers, D. "Chaucer’s Tale of Melebee: Whose Virtues?." Medieval Literature and Historical Inquiry: Essays in Honor of Derek Pearsall. Ed. Aers, D. Brewer, 2000. 
  35. Beckwith, S. "Absent Presences: Resurrection Theatre in York." Festschrift for Derek Pearsall. Ed. Aers, D; Woodbridge, B; Brewer,.  2000. 
  36. Aers, D. "Vox Populi and the Literature of 1381." Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature. Ed. Wallace, D. Cambridge UP, 1999. 
  37. Aers, D. "Interpreting Dreams: Reflections on Freud, Milton and Chaucer." Reading Dreams: The Interpretation of Dreams from Chaucer to Shakespeare. Ed. Brown, P. Oxford UP, 1999. 
  38. Aers, D. "Reflections on Gower as ’Sapiens in Ethics and Politics." Re-Visioning Gower. Ed. Yeager, RF. Pegasus, 1998. 
  39. Aers, D. "Written Work: Review Essay." YLS 12 (1998): 207-217.
  40. Aers, D. "Faith, ethics, and community: Reflections on reading late medieval English writing." JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN STUDIES 28.2 (1998): 341-369. [Gateway.cgi]
  41. Aers, D. "Christianity for Courtly Subjects: Reflections on the Gawain-poet." A Companion to the Gawain-Poet. Ed. Brewer, D. Brewer, 1997. 
  42. Aers, D. "Preface to special issue: From Medieval Christianities to the Reformation." JMEMS 27 (1997): 139-143.
  43. Aers, D. "Preface + From medieval Christianities to the Reformations." JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN STUDIES 27.2 (1997): 139-143. [Gateway.cgi]
  44. Aers, D; Hauerwas, S. "Reformation is Sin.." Perspectives 11.8 (October, 1996): 10-11. [login.aspx]
  45. Aers, D. "Preface to special issue on Historical Inquiries/Psychoanalytic Criticism/Gender Studies." JMEMS 26 (1996): 199-208.
  46. Aers, D. "Figuring forth the Body of Christ: Devotion and Politics."  2
  47. Aers, D. "Representing the humanity of Christ: devotion and politics in Piers Plowman." Yearbook of Langland Studies 8 (1995): 107-125.
  48. Aers, D. "A Response [to K. Biddick, "Becoming Ethnographic"]." Essays in Medieval Studies 2 (1995): 38-41.
  49. Aers, D. "Review of Gender and Romance in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales by Susan Crane." Medium Aevum 64.2 (1995): 316-318. [Gateway.cgi]
  50. Aers, D. "’Darke texts need notes’: Versions of Self in Donne’s verse Epistles." Critical Essays on John Donne. Ed. Marotti, AF. 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]
  51. Aers, D. "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. Frantzen, AJ; Moffat, D. Cruithre Press, 1994. 
  52. Aers, D. "Class, Gender, Medieval Criticism and Piers Plowman." Class and Gender in Early English Literature. Ed. Harwood, BJ; Overing, GR. Indiana UP, 1994. 
  53. 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 3.2SAGE Publications, (1994): 90-105. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  54. Aers, D. "Review of 'Piers Plowman' and the Problem of Belief by B. Harwood." MEDIUM AEVUM 62.2 (1993): 321-322. [Gateway.cgi]
  55. Aers, D. "Review of Hochon's Arrow: The Social Imagination of 14th Century Texts by Paul Strohm." MEDIUM AEVUM 62.2 (1993): 332-334. [Gateway.cgi]
  56. Aers, D. "The Self-Mourning: Reflections on Pearl." Speculum: a Journal of Medieval Studies 68 (1993): 54-73.
  57. Aers, D. "Medievalists and Deconstruction: An exemplum." From Medieval to Medievalism. Ed. Simons, J. Macmillan, 1992. 
  58. Aers, D. "Introduction and A Whisper in the Ear of Early Modernists." Culture and History. Ed. Aers, D.  1992. 
  59. Aers, D. "Review of Chaucerian Belief: The Poetics of Reverence and Delight by JM Hill." Medium Aevum 61.1 (1992): 126-128. [Gateway.cgi]
  60. Aers, D. "Review of An Ars Legendi for Chaucer's Canterbury Tales by Dolores Warwick Freese." Medium Aevum 61.2 (1992): 318-319. [Gateway.cgi]
  61. Aers, D. "Review of The Age of Saturn: Literature and History in The Canterbury Tales by P. Brown and A. Butcher." Medium Aevum 61.2 (1992): 318-319. [Gateway.cgi]
  62. Aers, D. "Review of Truth and Textuality in Chaucer Poetry by LJ Kiser." Medium Aevum 61.1 (1992): 126-128. [Gateway.cgi]
  63. Aers, D. "Chaucer’s Representations of Marriage and Sexual Relations." Critical Essays on Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Open University/Toronto UP, 1991. 205-13.
  64. Aers, D. "Reflections on Current Histories of the Subject." Literature and History 2.2Manchester University Press, (1991): 20-34. [Gateway.cgi]
  65. Aers, D. "Review of 'The Canterbury Tales' (Oxford Guides to Chaucer) by Helen Cooper." Medium Aevum 60.1 (1991): 116-118. [Gateway.cgi]
  66. Aers, D. "Reading Piers Plowman: Literature History and Criticism." Literature and History 1.1Manchester University Press, (1990): 4-23. [Gateway.cgi]
  67. Aers, D. "Review of The Language of Chaucer by D. Burnley." Literature and History 1.2Manchester University Press, (1990): 88-89. [Gateway.cgi]
  68. 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 38.4Oxford University Press (OUP), (October, 1988): 325-334. [Gateway.cgi]
  69. 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 52 (July, 1988): 243-246. [40402878]
  70. Aers, D. "Review of The Poor In The Middle Ages: An Essay in Social History by M. Mollatt." Science & Society 52.2 (1988): 243-246. [Gateway.cgi]
  71. Aers, D. "Rewriting the Middle Ages, Some Suggestions." Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 18.2 (1988): 221-240. [Gateway.cgi]
  72. Aers, D. "Rewriting the Middle Ages." Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 18 (1988): 221-40.
  73. Aers, D. "Humanism Historicized." Essays in Criticism 38 (1988): 325-334.
  74. Aers, D. "Representations of Revolution: from the French Revolution to The Four Zoas." Critical Paths: Blake and the Argument of Method. Ed. Miller, D; Bracher, M; Ault, D. Duke University Press, 1987. 
  75. Aers, D. "The Good Shepherds of Medieval Criticism." Southern Review 20 (1987): 168-189.
  76. Aers, D. "Reflections on the Allegory of the Theologians, Ideology and Piers Plowman." Medieval Literature. Ed. Aers, D.  1986. 
  77. Aers, D. "Piers Plowman e le tradizioni di protesta sociale e religiosa." STORIA DELLA CIVILTA LETTERARIA INGLESE. Ed. Medieval Literature.  1986. 
  78. Aers, D. "Of propre kynde." English  (1986): 268-73.
  79. Aers, D. "Review of Changing the Signs: The 15th Century Breakthrough by A. Cook." Word and Image 2.4 (1986): 390-391. [Gateway.cgi]
  80. Aers, D. "Review of 'The Canterbury Tales' by Pearsall." English 35.153 (1986): 268-273. [Gateway.cgi]
  81. Aers, D. "Piers Plowman and Problems in the Perception of Poverty: a Culture in Transition." Leeds Studies in English 14 (1983): 5-25.
  82. Aers, D. "Representations of the Third Estate: Social Conflict and its Milieu around 1381." Southern Review 16.3 (1983): 335-349. [Gateway.cgi]
  83. Aers, D. "Coleridge and the egg that Burke laid: ideological collusion and opposition in the 1790's." Literature and History 9.2Manchester University Press, (1983): 152-163. [Gateway.cgi]
  84. Aers, D. "Review of Re-Reading English by P Widdowson." Literature and History 9.2Manchester University Press, (1983): 256-257. [Gateway.cgi]
  85. Aers, D. "Strategies for Representing Revolution." 1789: Reading, Writing, Revolution. Ed. Barker, F. University of Essex, 1982.   [author's comments]
  86. Aers, D; Kress, G. "The Politics of Style: Discourses of Law and Authority in Measure for Measure." Style 16.1 (1982): 22-37. [Gateway.cgi]  [author's comments]
  87. Aers, D; Kress, G. "Historical Process, Individual and Communities in Milton’s Early Prose." 1642: Literature and Power in the 17th Century. Ed. Barker, F. University of Essex, 1981. 
  88. Aers, D. "The Parliament of Fowls: Authority, the knower and the known." Chaucer Review: a journal of medieval studies and literary criticism 16.1Penn State University Press, (1981): 1-17. [Gateway.cgi]
  89. Aers, D. "Chaucer’s Creseyde, Woman in Society, Woman in Love." Critical Essays on British Literature (reprinted from original 1980 article). Ed. Stillinger, T. (Simon and Schuster, 1998), 1980. 
  90. Aers, D; Hodge, R. "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.
  91. Aers, D. "Criseyde: Woman in Medieval Society." Chaucer Review: a journal of medieval studies and literary criticism 13.3Penn State University Press, (1979): 177-200. [Gateway.cgi]
  92. Aers, D. "’Darke texts need notes’: Versions of the Self in Donne’s Verse Epistles." Literature and History 8 (1978): 2-19.
  93. Aers, D. "Imagination and Ideology in 'Piers Plowman'." Literature and History 7.7Manchester University Press, (1978): 2-19. [Gateway.cgi]
  94. Aers, D. "Authority - Chaucer’s Dream Poetry." Essays in Criticism 27 (1977): 159-62.
  95. Aers, D. "Blake and the Dialectics of Sex." ELH 44 (1977): 500-14.
  96. Aers, D. "Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess." Durham Univ. Journal 69 (1977): 201-210.
  97. Aers, D. "Review of Medieval Dream Poetry by A.C. Spearling." Essays in Criticism: a quarterly journal of literary criticism 27.2Oxford University Press (OUP), (1977): 157-162. [Gateway.cgi]
  98. Aers, D. "William Blake and the Dialectics of Sex." ELH: English Literary History 44.3Johns Hopkins University Press, (1977): 500-514. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  99. Aers, D. "Review of Milton, a Structural Reading by DF Bouchard." Journal of European Studies (Chalfont Saint Giles) 5.2 (1975): 195-196. [Gateway.cgi]
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