CATHERINE SANOK is Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan. CATHERINE SANOK is Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan. KATHRYN KERBY-FULTON is Professor Emerita, University of Notre Dame.

• Introduction: The Literary through - or beyond? - Form - Catherine Sanok and Robert J Meyer-LeeWhat's the Use? Marian Miracles and the Workings of the Literary - Claire M. WatersForm's Practice: Lyrics, Grammars, and the Medieval Idea of the Literary - Ingrid NelsonForms of the Hours in Late Medieval England - Jessica BrantleyRhymed Alliterative Verse in Mise en page Transition: Two Case Studies in English Poetic Hybridity - Andrew KleinRhymed Alliterative Verse in Mise en page Transition: Two Case Studies in English Poetic Hybridity - Kathryn Kerby-FultonIdiot Psalms: Sound, Style, and the Performance of the Literary in the Towneley Shepherds' Plays - Shannon GaykInaudible Music - Sarah Elliott NovacichTranslating Form with Patience - Anke BernauTerpsichorean Form: Geoffrey Chaucer's Franklin's Tale and Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty - Seeta ChagantiIllusion and Aspect in the Construction of the Face: Chaucerian Individuals, Chaucerian Types - Maura NolanCollecting, Violence, Literature: Richard of Bury's Philobiblon and the Forms of Literary History - Emily Steiner

At its best, this volume shows us what is happening in the work among some of the most professionally creative and ambitious medievalists today. If it lacks the overarching focus of earlier collections on historicism, it offers a welcome testimony to the fact that medieval literary study may be more varied, more open, and (at times) even more wacky than it used to be. And to me, anyway, that is a good thing.