John C. Hirsh is Professor of English at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. His previous publications include "Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales" (Blackwell, 2003), "The Boundaries of Faith: The Development and Transmission of Medieval Spirituality" (1996), "The Revelations of Margery Kempe: Paramystical Practices in Late Medieval England" (1989), and "Hope Emily Allen: Medieval Scholarship and Feminism" (1988). He has also edited "Barlam and Iosaphat" (1986) for the Early English Text Society.