Steven Justice, Professor
Office: 410 Wheeler
Phone: 510-642-2764
Email: sjustice@berkeley.edu
Areas of Interest
Literature of medieval England, especially later Middle English (still more especially Chaucer and Langland) and Latin literature; institutions of religious thought and writing; philosophy of literary history.Current Research
Two big projects at present: (1) "Adam Usk's Secret," a short book in which the late-medieval chronicler serves as a parable of the problems of literary historicism. This is almost done. (2) "Did the Middle Ages Believe in their Miracles?", a longer book on the experience of religious belief in the middle agesSelected Publications and Papers Delivered
"Chaucer's History-Effect." In Andrew Galloway and Frank Grady,eds., Answerable Style: Form and History in Medieval English Literature. Essays in Honor of Anne Middleton (Ohio State, forthcoming).
"Who Stole Robertson?" PMLA 124 (2009):609-15.
"Literary History." In David Raybin and Susanna Fein, eds., Chaucer: Contemporary Approaches (Penn State, 2009), 195-210.
"Did the Middle Ages Believe in their Miracles?" Representations 103 (2008):1-29.
"Religious Dissent, Social Revolt, and 'Ideology.'" In Christopher Dyer and Chris Wickham, eds. Rodney Hilton’s Middle Ages: Essays on his Historical Themes. Past and Present Supplement 1. Oxford University Press, 2007, 205-16.
"'General Words': Response to Elizabeth Schirmer." In Linda Olson and Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, eds. Voices in Dialogue: Reading Women in the Middle Ages. University of Notre Dame Press, 2005, 377-94
"Prophecy and the Explanation of Social Disorder." In Nigel Morgan, ed. The Millennium, Social Disorder, and the Day of Doom. Harlaxton Medieval Studies 12. Shaun Tyas Publishing, 2004, 139-59.
"The Afterlife of Late Medieval Rebellions in France and England." In Peter Blickle and Thomas Adam, eds. Bundschuh: Untergrombach 1502, das unruhige Reich und die Revolutionierbarkeit Europas. Franz Steiner Verlag, 237-48.
Writing and Rebellion: England in 1381. University of California Press, 1994.
Office Hours
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