Vernacular Aesthetics in the Later Middle Ages: Politics, Performativity, and Reception from Literat

Introduction. 1-23

Section I. The Peasants' RebellioN As SENSORY event.

Chapter 1,

"The Weight of Experience: John Gower and the Peasants' Revolt"

Joel D. Anderson .........................................................................................................

Chapter 2,

"'Stonde Manlyche togedyr in Trewthe': Lyric and Rebellion Among Late Medieval Men"

Chapter 3, "On Bells and Rebellion: The Auditory Imagination and Social Reform, Medieval and Modern"

Adin Lears.

Section II. AESTHETIC RECEPTION: Music and the Multimodal manuscript..

Chapter 4,

 "High or Low?: Medieval English Carols as Part of Vernacular Culture, 1380-1450"

Chapter 5,

"Rethinking the Passion Lyric: Verbal Devotion, Narrative Variation, and the Poetics of Comfort in Middle English Poetry"

Barbara Zimbalist....................................................................................................

Chapter 6,

"Multimodality and Memory in the Mise-en-page of Guillaume de Machaut's Mass"

Kate Maxwell.

Chapter 1, Introduction: Past Vernaculars: The Aesthetic and the Everyday

 Katherine W. Jager

SECTION I: THE PEASANTS' REBELLION AS SENSORY EVENT

Chapter 2, 

"The Weight of Experience: John Gower and the Peasants' Revolt"

Joel D. Anderson 

Chapter 3,

"'Stonde Manlyche togedyr in Trewthe': Lyric and Rebellion Among Late Medieval Men"

Katharine W. Jager

Chapter 4, "On Bells and Rebellion: The Auditory Imagination and Social Reform, Medieval and Modern"

Adin Lears

Section II. AESTHETIC RECEPTION: Music and the Multimodal manuscript.

Chapter 5,

 "High or Low?: Medieval English Carols as Part of Vernacular Culture, 1380-1450"

Lisa Colton and Louise Mcinnes

Chapter 6,

"Rethinking the Passion Lyric: Verbal Devotion, Narrative Variation, and the Poetics of Comfort in Middle English Poetry"

Barbara Zimbalist....................................................................................................

Chapter 7,

"Multimodality and Memory in the Mise-en-page of Guillaume de Machaut's Mass"

Kate Maxwell

Section III. Vernacular Practice: Alchemy, Aesthetics, Affect

Chapter 8,

"Alchemical Language: Latin and the Vernacular in the Poetry of Thomas Norton and John Gower"

David Hadbawnik

Chapter 9,

"Vernacular 'Makynge,' Jack Upland, and the Aesthetics of Antfraternalism

Noëlle Phillips

Chapter 10,

"Read It and Weep: Affective and Literate Engagement in Richard Rolle's Meditations and The Book of Margery Kempe"

Jessica Barr