Publications

Monographs

2022. Piers Plowman and its Manuscript Tradition, York Manuscript and Early Print Series, 5 (York Medieval Press/Boydell and Brewer)

2012. Conscience and the Composition of Piers Plowman, Oxford English Monographs (Oxford: Oxford University Press)

Critical editions

2013. Richard Morris’s ‘Prick of Conscience’: A Corrected and Amplified Reading Text, ed. by Ralph Hanna and Sarah Wood, Early English Text Society, Original Series 342 (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

Journal articles

2025. ‘John But’s text(s) of Piers Plowman’. Notes and Queries July 2025. DOI: 10.1093/notesj/gjaf072.

2025. ‘“Dilige deum &c”: Acquired meaning and the quotations in Piers Plowman’. Notes and Queries July 2025. DOI: 10.1093/notesj/gjaf071

2025. ‘Two Notes on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: l. 34 “lel letteres” and l. 193 “dok”’. Notes and Queries, 72, 111-15 https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjaf019

2024. ‘“Fire without flint”: Piers Plowman Z.6.71-72, 74’, Medium Aevum, 92 (2023), 374-85.

2023. ‘Leaute and the dreamer: A mis-punctuated dialogue in Piers Plowman C.12.22-40α’. Notes and Queries, 70, 141-45.

2018. ‘A scribal edition of Piers Plowman C in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 293’, Scriptorium, 72, 93-106.

2017. ‘Two annotated Piers Plowman manuscripts from London and the early reception of B and C’, The Chaucer Review, 52.3 (July 2017), 274-97.

2017. ‘Monologic Langland: Contentiousness and the ‘Z Version’ of Piers Plowman’, Review of English Studies, 68 (284): 224-43. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgw138. Selected as the Editor’s Choice for best article on the medieval period for 2017.

2016. ‘Langlandian Loose Leaves and Lost Histories’, The Library, 7th series, 17 (December 2016), 371-98. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/library/17.4.371. Selected as the ‘Editors’ choice’ for the December issue.

2016. ‘Confession and compilation: The seven deadly sins in Huntington Library, MS HM 114’, The Yearbook of Langland Studies, 29 (2015), 117-49.

2015. ‘Non-authorial Piers: C-text Interpolations in the Second Vision of Piers Plowman in Huntington Library, MS HM 114’, Journal of English and Germanic Philology 114.4 (October 2015), 482-503.

2011. ‘A Prose Redaction of The Prick of Conscience Book VI in Bodleian Library, MS Laud misc. 23’, Medium Ævum, 80, 1–17.

2007. ‘“Ecce Rex”: Piers Plowman B.19.1–212 and its contexts,’ The Yearbook of Langland Studies, 21, 31–56.

Chapters in books

2010. ‘Mendicants and the Economies of Piers Plowman’, in The Friars in Medieval Britain: Proceedings of the 2007 Harlaxton Symposium, ed. by Nicholas Rogers, Harlaxton Medieval Studies, 19 (Donington: Tyas), pp. 224–38. Page numbers given here refer to my sole-authored essay, which was published as one of a pair of essays under the same title.

Encyclopaedia entries/reference works

2021. Thorlac Turville-Petre and Sarah Wood, ‘Commentary on The Vision of Piers Plowman’. Bloomsbury Medieval Studies: https://www.bloomsburymedievalstudies.com/home. DOI: 10.5040/9781350934313.004.

2017. ‘The Prick of Conscience’, in Encyclopedia of Medieval British Literature, ed. by Robert Rouse and Sian Echard, 4 vols (Wiley-Blackwell), IV, 1544-56.

Book reviews

2024. Alastair Bennett, Preaching and Narrative in Piers Plowman. Review of English Studies. https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgae064

2021. Arvind Thomas, Piers Plowman and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Late Middle Ages. Digital Philology 10, 162-65.

2018. Curtis Greunler, Piers Plowman and the Poetics of Enigma, The Medieval Review, 8th November 2018 https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/25929

2017. Rebecca Davis, Piers Plowman and the Books of Nature, Modern Philology, 115, 245-46.

2017. Eric Weiskott, English Alliterative Verse: Poetic Tradition and Literary History, Review of English Studies, 68 (issue 287), 988-90. https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgx053

2017. David Aers, Beyond Reformation? An Essay on Piers Plowman and the End of Constantinian Christianity, English Historical Review, 132 (issue 555), 353–55. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cew425

2015. Ian Johnson, The Middle English Life of Christ: Academic Discourse, Translation, and Vernacular Theology, Medium Ævum, 84, 152-53.

2014. Prik of Conscience, ed. by James Morey, Medium Ævum, 83, 357–58.

2010. Dinah Hazell, Poverty in Late Middle English Literature: The Meene and the Riche, Medium Ævum, 79, 327–28.

2009. Nicolette Zeeman, Piers Plowman and the Medieval Discourse of Desire, Notes and Queries, n. s. 56, 449–50.