Memory and Confession in Middle English Literature

Kisha G. Tracy is Assistant Professor of English Studies, specializing in early British and world literatures, and Co-Coordinator of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Fitchburg State University. Her main research interests include medieval memory and confession, medieval disability, and higher education pedagogy.

• 1 ​Introduction.- 2 Reducere ad memoriam: A Brief Overview of Confession and Memory.- 3 Langland: Piers Plowman, Recollection, Confession, and the Penitent.- 4 Gower: Confessio Amantis and the Fear of Forgetting.- 5 Chaucer: Romances and the Temporality of Confession.- 6 Gawain-Poet: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, To Forget or Not to Forget.- 7 Final Thoughts.

“Memory and Confession in Middle English Literature deserves commendation for its recognition of the influence of post-Lateran IV penitential theory and practice on late medieval narrative fictions; one could wish more significant its insights into the cultural implications of that influence.” (R. W. Hanning, Speculum, Vol. 94 (4), October, 2019)