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Helen Barr is Fellow and Tutor in English at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, where she teaches Old and Middle English literature, the history of the English language, and Shakespeare. Her books include Signes and Sothe: Language in the Piers Plowman Tradition (D.S. Brewer, 1994) and Socioliterary Practice in Late-Medieval England (Oxford University Press, 2002). Her primary research interest is in relationships between textualities and cultural practices. Helen Cooper is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge. Her books include The Canterbury Tales in the Oxford Guides to Chaucer series and The English Romance in Time: Transforming Motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the Death of Shakespeare (Oxford University Press, 2004). Marilyn Corrie is a lecturer in English at University College London. She has published essays on early Middle English literature and manuscripts, Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur , and the history of the English language in the medieval period. She is currently writing a book about Malory's Morte Darthur and religion in the late Middle Ages. Andrew Galloway has taught in Cornell University's English Department since receiving his PhD (UC Berkeley) in 1991. He has written numerous essays on Middle English poetry, especially that of Chaucer, Gower and Langland, and on medieval chronicles. Recently ... log in or subscribe to read full text