Editorial Information

YLS is the sole journal devoted to Piers Plowman studies. Since 1987, YLS has significantly shaped the expanding critical attention to the poem and its contexts. Each volume -- including essays, debate, reviews, and annual annotated bibliography -- offers access to the most significant and up-to-date scholarship on the poem and its literary, historical, codicological, and critical contexts.

The editors of YLS are:

• Andrew Cole, English Department, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA (awc (at sign) uga.edu).
• Fiona Somerset, English Department, Box 90015, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA (somerset (at sign) duke.edu).
• Lawrence Warner, Department of English, Woolley Building (A20), University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia (lawrence.warner (at sign) usyd.edu.au).

Editorial Board from volume 22 (2008; * indicates new member)

Stephen A. Barney, Emeritus, University of California, Irvine

John A. Burrow, Emeritus, University of Bristol

Andrew Galloway, Cornell University

* Alexandra Gillespie, University of Toronto

* Simon Horobin, Magdalen College, University of Oxford

* Jill Mann, University of Notre Dame and Girton College, University of Cambridge

Anne Middleton, University of California, Berkeley

* Linne R. Mooney, University of York

* W. Mark Ormrod, University of York

* Ad Putter, University of Bristol

Wendy Scase, University of Birmingham

* D. Vance Smith, Princeton University

* Thorlac Turville-Petre, University of Nottingham

* Nicholas Watson, Harvard University

* Nicolette Zeeman, King’s College, University of Cambridge

We extend our warmest thanks to the outgoing members of the Editorial Board, who have served the journal so well for many years: Robert Adams (now Director of the International Piers Plowman Society), David Aers, Christopher Dyer, and M. Teresa Tavormina.

Submissions

YLS seeks articles and notes that deal with Piers Plowman and related poetry and prose in the traditions of didactic and allegorical alliterative writing, or with the historical, religious, intellectual, codicological, and critical contexts of these works.

Authors should submit manuscripts electronically, in Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, or .rtf, to all of the editors. Where electronic submission is impracticable for authors, we gladly accept hard copy; in this case please send three copies to any one of the editors. As per Brepols policy, articles should conform to the Modern Humanities Research Association style guide, available as a .pdf download here. Authors should also adhere to the journal-specific guidelines available in this document. Submissions should be prepared for double-blind peer-review, with all information in notes and headers that may identify the author removed.

All books for review should be sent to any of the editors.

Authors should send abstracts of their books (800 words) and articles (450 words) to any of the editors.