A collection attesting to the richness and lasting appeal of these short forms of Middle English verse. The body of short Middle English poems conventionally known as lyrics is characterized by wonderful variety. Taking many different forms, and covering an enormous number of subjects, these poems have proved at once attractive andchallenging for modern readers and scholars. This collection of essays explores a range of Middle English lyrics from the thirteenth to the early sixteenth century, both religious and secular in flavour. It directs attention to the intrinsic qualities of these short poems and at the same time explores their capacity to illuminate important aspects of medieval cultural practice and production: forms of piety, contemporary conditions and events, the historyof feelings and emotions, and the relationships of image, song, performance and speech to the written word. The issues covered in the essays include editing lyrics; lyric manuscripts; affect; visuality; mouvance and transformation; and the relationships between words, music and speech. A particularly distinctive feature of the collection is that most of the essays take as a point of departure a specific lyric whose particularities are explored within wider-ranging critical argument.

A collection attesting to the richness and lasting appeal of these short forms of Middle English verse. The body of short Middle English poems conventionally known as lyrics is characterized by wonderful variety. Taking many different forms, and covering an enormous number of subjects, these poems have proved at once attractive andchallenging for modern readers and scholars. This collection of essays explores a range of Middle English lyrics from the thirteenth to the early sixteenth century, both religious and secular in flavour. It directs attention to the intrinsic qualities of these short poems and at the same time explores their capacity to illuminate important aspects of medieval cultural practice and production: forms of piety, contemporary conditions and events, the historyof feelings and emotions, and the relationships of image, song, performance and speech to the written word. The issues covered in the essays include editing lyrics; lyric manuscripts; affect; visuality; mouvance and transformation; and the relationships between words, music and speech. A particularly distinctive feature of the collection is that most of the essays take as a point of departure a specific lyric whose particularities are explored within wider-ranging critical argument. JULIA BOFFEY is Professor of Medieval Studies in the Department of English at Queen Mary University of London; CHRISTIANIA WHITEHEAD is Professor of Middle English Literature at the University of Warwick. Contributors: Anne Baden-Daintree, Julia Boffey, Anne Marie D'Arcy, Thomas G. Duncan, Susanna Fein, Mary C. Flannery, Jane Griffiths, Joel Grossman, John C. Hirsh, Hetta Elizabeth Howes, Natalie Jones, Michael P. Kuczynski, A.S. Lazikani, Daniel McCann, Denis Renevey, Elizabeth Robertson, Annie Sutherland, Mary Wellesley, Christiania Whitehead, Katherine Zieman.

Petula Mills is an old fashioned Southern girl who is as steeped in the South as it is in her. But, at age nineteen she has attended enough church and read enough about the opportunities that await the brave-at-heart in a world beyond her native Charleston. She's ready to become truly productive, follow her dreams and perhaps even abandon her roots.

Rachel Johns is an independent eighteen year old with a matter-of-fact way of looking at everything. But, her everything has been limited to the reservation she was raised on. She is a free spirit and the only god she knows is her father; the only love she has is her family and still she is ready for almost anything at any time--maybe a new God, too.

Lisa Bennett is tall, gorgeous and popular. For white guys she would be the most delicious taboo ever, and for most black guys, she is just a fat chance. This self-absorbed northern girl only knows how to be noticed and admired. However, she cannot always handle, well, the spirits in some men she attracts.

Petula Mills is an old fashioned Southern girl who is as steeped in the South as it is in her. But, at age nineteen she has attended enough church and read enough about the opportunities that await the brave-at-heart in a world beyond her native Charleston. She's ready to become truly productive, follow her dreams and perhaps even abandon her roots.

Rachel Johns is an independent eighteen year old with a matter-of-fact way of looking at everything. But, her everything has been limited to the reservation she was raised on. She is a free spirit and the only god she knows is her father; the only love she has is her family and still she is ready for almost anything at any time--maybe a new God, too.

Lisa Bennett is tall, gorgeous and popular. For white guys she would be the most delicious taboo ever, and for most black guys, she is just a fat chance. This self-absorbed northern girl only knows how to be noticed and admired. However, she cannot always handle, well, the spirits in some men she attracts.

Self-Determination as Voice addresses the relationship between Indigenous peoples' participation in international governance and the law of self-determination. Many states and international organizations have put in place institutional mechanisms for the express purpose of including Indigenous representatives in international policy-making and decision-making processes, as well as in the negotiation and drafting of international legal instruments. Indigenous peoples' rights have a higher profile in the UN system than ever before. This book argues that the establishment and use of mechanisms and policies to enable a certain level of Indigenous peoples' participation in international governance has become a widespread practice, and perhaps even one that is accepted as law. In theory, the law of self-determination supports this move, and it is arguably emerging as a rule of customary international law. However, ultimately the achievement of the ideal of full and effective participation, in a manner that would fulfil Indigenous peoples' right to self-determination, remains deferred.