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Steven Justice

Professor
409 Wheeler Hall
sjustice@berkeley.edu


Specialties

 

Selected Publications and Papers Delivered

"Eucharistic Miracle and Eucharistic Doubt," Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 42 (2012, forthcoming)

"Piers Plowman and Literary History." In Andrew Galloway and Andrew Cole, eds. The Cambridge Compaion to Piers Plowman. (Cambridge, forthcoming).

"Chaucer's History-Effect." In Andrew Galloway and Frank Grady,eds., Answerable Style: Form and History in Medieval English Literature. (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.



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 ages


Recent English Courses Taught