In the Words of Others: Exotic Documents and Vernacular Anxieties in Medieval England.

Published: Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Rochester, 2014. Dissertation Abstracts International A75. 09(E). Fully accessible via https://urresearch.rochester.edu/institutionalPublicationPublicView.action?institutionalItemId=28064 (accessed March 11, 2026).

Description: Examines anxieties about the status of the vernacular and cultural identity in late medieval England, particularly as evident in "exotic documents" found in Middle English narratives. Includes discussion of such documents in "Alexander and Didimus," "The Book of John Mandeville," "St. Erkenwald," and HF, assessing in the latter how the "architectural image-text of Aeneas and Dido and the names inscribed in ice" outside Fame's house engage questions about the authority of writing.