Yearbook of Langland Studies

Aims & Scope

YLS welcomes submissions dealing with Piers Plowman and related poetry and prose in the traditions of didactic and allegorical alliterative writing.

Papers concerning the literary, historical, religious, intellectual, codicological, and critical contexts of these works are also invited.

Submissions are double-blind peer reviewed.

In preparing their manuscripts for review, authors should avoid revealing their identity within the essay itself and follow the style guides given below.

The editors are Alastair Bennett (Royal Holloway, University of London), Katharine Breen (Northwestern University), and Eric Weiskott (Boston College).

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Metrics & Ranking

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.102

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q3

h-index

Year	Value
2024	3

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	29574

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	1

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Abstracting & Indexing

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Piers Plowman and the Peasants' Revolt: A Problem Revisited

  Citation: 13

  Authors: Anne

• Progress in Middle English Alliterative Metrics

  Citation: 12

  Authors: Thomas

• Langland's Plowman and the Recreation of Fourteenth-Century Religious Metaphor

  Citation: 11

  Authors: Elizabeth D.

• The Subject of Piers Plowman

  Citation: 10

  Authors: David

• The Perils of Canor: Mystical Authority, Alliteration, and Extragrammatical Meaning in Rolle, the Cloud-Author, and Hilton

  Citation: 9

  Authors: Katherine

• Piers Plowman, Pastoral Theology, and Spiritual Perfectionism: Hawkyn’s Cloak and Patience’s Pater Noster

  Citation: 9

  Authors: Nicholas

• The "Hungry Gap," Crop Failure, and Famine: The Fourteenth-Century Agricultural Crisis and Piers Plowman

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Robert

• William Langland and John Ball

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Michael

• Langland's and Chaucer's Prologues

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Helen

• George Kane and the Invention of Textual Thought: Retrospect and Prospect

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Ralph

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