Among the works addressed in his essay are Thomas H. Bestul's 'Texts of the Passion: Latin Devotional Literature and Medieval Society' (1996); Lillian M. Bisson's 'Chaucer and the Late Medieval World' (1998); Richard Mallette's 'Spenser and the Discourses of Reformation England' (1997); Esther Gilman Richey's 'The Politics of Revelation in the English Renaissance' (1998); and Rufus Wood's 'Metaphor and Belief in The Faerie Queene' (1997).