Papers by Ian Cornelius
The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain, 2017
A survey of the foundational disciplines of literate culture in the British isles, from the failu... more A survey of the foundational disciplines of literate culture in the British isles, from the failure of the Roman imperial project in the fifth century to Henry VIII’s promulgation of uniform Latin grammars in 1540-42. 5,000 words.
A narrative history of the reception of Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy in Old and Middle En... more A narrative history of the reception of Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy in Old and Middle English, with contextualizing discussion of medieval Latin and French traditions.
Read 8 January 2016 in Austin, TX, at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association, sess... more Read 8 January 2016 in Austin, TX, at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association, session number 218, “Quantity in English Verse: Linguistic and Neuroscience-Based Challenges to the Accentual Paradigm.” This short historiographical paper was the half-time show in our roundtable—an interlude between the session’s more substantive linguistic contributions. It draws from my article “The Accentual Paradigm in Early English Metrics,” which appeared in the October 2015 issue of The Journal of English and Germanic Philology.
A literature review and reassessment of the twentieth-century scholarship on Middle English allit... more A literature review and reassessment of the twentieth-century scholarship on Middle English alliterative verse; a mapping of questions for future study.
An essay in Bourdieusian cultural studies, on the teaching of rhetoric in late medieval England.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 2015
An essay in the history of knowledge, tracing the nineteenth-century emergence and consolidation ... more An essay in the history of knowledge, tracing the nineteenth-century emergence and consolidation of the thesis that Old English poetry was accentual. Argues that this paradigm misrepresents central features of the Old English meter and of the Middle English form that developed from it.
[See the revised version: chap. 2 in *Reconstructing Alliterative Verse: The Pursuit of a Medieval Meter* (2017)]
An essay on the textual transmission of section titles in the B and C Versions of Piers Plowman, ... more An essay on the textual transmission of section titles in the B and C Versions of Piers Plowman, arguing that the final two sections of the poem indeed originated in the B Version.
This essay examines the moral and political thought of John Gower's poem on the English Rising of... more This essay examines the moral and political thought of John Gower's poem on the English Rising of 1381, situating it within three contrastive fields: Gower’s moral project, his Virgilian intertext, and the practices of moral community employed by the rebels of 1381.
Books by Ian Cornelius
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Articles by Ian Cornelius
Language and Literature, 2021
A coauthored article presenting a newly concise description of Old English meter, informed by pro... more A coauthored article presenting a newly concise description of Old English meter, informed by progress in metrical study since 2008. Assumes no prior knowledge of Old English metrical theories.
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Papers by Ian Cornelius
[See the revised version: chap. 2 in *Reconstructing Alliterative Verse: The Pursuit of a Medieval Meter* (2017)]
Books by Ian Cornelius
Articles by Ian Cornelius
[See the revised version: chap. 2 in *Reconstructing Alliterative Verse: The Pursuit of a Medieval Meter* (2017)]