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  1. Houwen, L.A.J.R., and Eva von Contzen, eds. Writing Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland. Special issue Medievalia et Humanistica 41, 2015.
  2. Houwen, L.A.J.R., ed. Literature and Religion in Late Medieval and Early Modern Scotland . Leuven: Peeters, 2012. Print.
  3. Houwen, L.A.J.R., and K.E. Olsen, eds. Monsters and the Monstrous in Medieval Northwest Europe. Mediaevalia Groningana, n.s. 3. Leuven: Peeters, 2001. Print.
  4. Houwen, L.A.J.R., A.A. MacDonald, and Sally Mapstone, eds. The Palace in the Wild. Partial Proceedings of the Eighth International Research Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Language and Literature. Mediaevalia Groningana, n.s. Leuven: Peeters, 2000.
  5. Houwen, L.A.J.R., and A.A. MacDonald, eds. Alcuin of York: Scholar at the Carolingian Court. Mediaevalia Groningana. Groningen, 1998.
  6. Houwen, L.A.J.R., ed. Animals and the Symbolic in Mediaeval Art and Literature. Mediaevalia Groningana. Groningen, 1997.
  7. Houwen, L.A.J.R., and A.A. MacDonald, eds. Beda Venerabilis, Historian, Monk and Northumbrian. Mediaevalia Groningana. Groningen, 1996.
  8. Hofstra,T., L.A.J.R. Houwen, and A.A. MacDonald, eds. Pagans and Christians. The Interplay between Christian Latin and Traditional Germanic Cultures in Early Medieval Europe. Mediaevalia Groningana. Groningen, 1995.
  9. Houwen, L.A.J.R., and A.A. MacDonald, eds. Loyal Letters. Mediaeval Alliterative Poetry and Prose. Mediaevalia Groningana. Groningen, 1994.
In Preparation
    On-line Database of British Misericords
Scholarly Articles
  1. Houwen, L.A.J.R. Liturgical and Sacramental Imagerse. Mediaevalia Groningana. Gry in the Disputation between a Christian and a Jew. Medievalia et Humanistica NS 39, 2014. 47-62.
  2. Houwen, L.A.J.R.The Sedentary Swallow in Henryson’s the Preaching of the Swallow: Natural History, Genre Problems and the Battle Between the Body and the Soul. Literature and Religion in Late Medieval and Early Modern Scotland. Ed. Houwen, L.A.J.R. Leuven: Peeters, 2012. 35-52. Print.
  3. Houwen, L.A.J.R. Cacophonous Catalogues: The Complaynt of Scotland and the ‘Monologue Recreative. Journal of the Northern Renaisance 4. Web. 2012
  4. Houwen, L.A.J.R. The Beast Within: The Animal-Man Dichotomy in the Consolation of Philosophy. In Boethius Christianus? Transformationen der Consolatio Philosophiae in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit. Eds. Reinhold F. Glei, Nicola Kaminski, and Franz Lebsanft. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2010. 247-60.
  5. Houwen, L.A.J.R. Bestiaries in Wood? Misericords, Animal Imagery and the Bestiary Tradition. Festschrift for Elaine Block. Ed. Paul Hardwick. Turnhout: Brepols. 2010, 195-232. Web.
  6. Houwen, L.A.J.R. Bestiaries in Wood? Misericords, Animal Imagery and the Bestiary Tradition. IKON: Journal of Iconographic Studies 2, 2009. 203-16. [shorter version of above].
  7. Houwen, L.A.J.R. Alan Chartier - The Porteous of Noblenes. The Chepman and Myllar Prints: Scotland’s first printed texts. Ed. Sally Mapstone: DVD. The Scottish Text Society and the National Library of Scotland, 2008.
  8. Houwen, L.A.J.R. From Dumb Beasts Learn Wisdom and Knowledge.: 'Animal Symbolism in the Ancrene Wisse’. Das Mittelalter 12, 2007. 97-118.
  9. Houwen, L.A.J.R. Every Picture Tells a Story: The Importance of Images in the Wider Dissemination and Reception of Texts. In Language and Text: Current Perspectives on English and Germanic Historical Linguistics and Philology. Eds. Andrew James Johnston, Ferdinand von Mengden, Stefan Thim Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2006. 99-113.
  10. Houwen, L.A.J.R. ‘Creature, heal thyself': Animal Physicians, Instinct and the Hortus sanitatis. In Imagination und Sexualität. Eds. Stefanie Zaun, Daniela Watzke and Jörn Steigerwald, Analecta Romanica 71, 2004. 17-35.
  11. Houwen, L. A. J. R. The Noble Lyfe: An Early English Version of the Hortus Sanitatis. In Schooling and Society. The Ordering and Reordering of Knowledge in the Western Middle Ages. Eds. Alasdair A. MacDonald, Michael W. Twomey. Leuven: Peeters, 2004. 61–71.
  12. Houwen, L A.J.R. Fear and Instinct in Chaucer’s Nun’s Priest’s Tale.In Fear and Its Representations in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Eds. Anne Scott and Cynthia Kosso. Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages 6. Turnhout: Brepols, 2002, 17–30.
  13. Houwen, L.A.J.R. Lions without Villainy: Moralisations in a Heraldic Bestiary. In The European Sun: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Language and Literature. Eds. Graham Caie et al. Edinburgh, 2001. 249–66.
  14. Houwen, L.A.J.R. Exemplum et Similitudo: Natural Law in the Manciple’s Tale and the Squire’s Tale. In Chaucer in Perspective. Middle English Essays in Honour of Norman Blake. Ed. Geoffrey Lester. Sheffield: Academic Press, 1999. 100-17.
  15. Houwen, L.A.J.R. Bestiarien. In Mittelalter Mythen 2: Dämonen, Monster, Fabelwesen. Eds. Ulrich Müller and Werner Wunderlich. St Gallen: UVK, 1999. 59-75.
  16. Houwen, L.A.J.R., ed. Flattery and the Mermaid in Chaucer’s 'Nun’s Priest’s Tale’. In Animals and the Symbolic. Groningen: Forsten, 1997. 77–92
  17. Houwen, L.A.J.R. Sex, Songs, and Sirens: A New 'Score' for an Old Song’. The Profane Arts 5, 1996. 103–22
  18. Houwen, L.A.J.R. ‘The Seven Deeds of Honour and their Crowns: Lydgate and a Late Fifteenth-Century Scots Chivalric Treatise’. Studies in Scottish Literature 28, 1995. 150–64
  19. Houwen, L.A.J.R. ‘Un traité d’héraldique inédit: le ms Londres. Collège des Herauts. M19, ff. 79v–95’. Ed. [co-author M. Gosman], Romania 112, 1994., 488–521.
  20. Houwen, L.A.J.R., and A.A. MacDonald, eds. 'Breme Beres' and 'Hende Hertes': Appearance And Reality in William of Palerne. In Loyal Letters. Studies on Mediaeval Alliterative Poetry and Prose. Groningen, 1994. 223–38.
  21. Houwen, L.A.J.R. Vrouwen met vinnen en klauwen: de zeemeermin in de middelengelse literatuur. [Women with Fins and Claws in Middle English Literature]. Millenium 8, 1994. 3–17.
  22. Houwen, L.A.J.R. Animal Parallelism in Medieval Literature and the Bestiaries: A Preliminary Study. Neophilologus 78, 1994. 1–14.
  23. Houwen,L.A.J.R. Print into Manuscript: A Manuscript Copy of Part of the Boke of St. Albans (1486). In Boeken in de Late Middeleeuwen: Verslag van de Groningse Codicologendagen 1992. Eds. J.M.M. Hermans, K. van der Hoek. Groningen, 1994. 41–52.
  24. Houwen, L.A.J.R. and P. Eley. A Fifteenth-Century French Heraldic Bestiary. Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie 108, 1992. 460–514.
  25. Houwen, L.A.J.R. A Scots Translation of a Middle French Bestiary. Studies in Scottish Literature 25, 1991. 207–17.
  26. Houwen, L.A.J.R. The Sex Werkdays and Agis: Text and Context. English Studies 69, 1988. 372–85.
  27. Houwen, L.A.J.R. Additions, Antedatings, and Corrections to DOST and OED. Scottish Language 6, 1987. 21–29.
Review Articles
  1. Houwen, L.A.J.R. Animals in the Middle Ages. A Book of Essays. Garland Medieval Casebooks. Nona C. Flores, ed. 13. New York and London: Garland Publishing Inc., 1996. ENVOI. A Review Journal of Medieval Literature 6, 1997. 50–67.
  2. Houwen, L.A.J.R. Early Modern Zoology: The Construction of Animals in Science, Literature and the Visual Arts. Eds. K. A. E. Enenkel and P. J. Smith. 2 Vols. Intersections: Yearbook for Early Modern Studies, v. 7/1-2007. Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch. Leiden: Brill, 2007.
Popular Articles
  1. Houwen, L.A.J.R. Dieren, Dierensymboliek en Dierenboeken in de Middeleeuwen [Animals, Animal Symbolism and the Bestiaries in the Middle Ages] 12. Groniek,1994. 20–31.
  2. Houwen, L.A.J.R.. Parody in the Miller’s Tale’, File 5., 1993. 5–15.
Books
  1. Houwen, L.A.J.R., ed. The Deidis of Armorie: A Heraldic Treatise and Bestiary Scottish Text Society. 2 vols. Edinburgh,1994. Print.
  2. Houwen, L.A.J.R., ed. The Sex Werkdays and Agis: An Edition of a Late Medieval Scots Universal History from the Asloan Manuscript. Mediaevalia Groningana. Groningen, 1990. Web.
Reviews
  1. Burns, E. Jane, and Peggy McCracken, eds. From Beasts to Souls: Gender and Embodiment in Medieval Europe. Notre Dame. In: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013. Medievalia et Humanistica, 2015. 151-58.
  2. Franz, Leonie. Wahre Wunder. Tiere als Funktions- und Bedeutungsträger in mittelalterlichen Gründungslegenden. Heidelberg: Winter, 2011. Arbitrium 31, 2013. 292-94.
  3. Gameson, Richard. The Earliest Books of Canterbury Cathedral. Manuscripts and Fragments to c. 1200. London: The Bibliographical Society/British Library, 2008. Bulletin Codicologique 1, 2011. 18*-19*.
  4. Pahta, Päivi, and Andreas H. Jucker, eds. Communicating Early English Manuscripts. Studies in English Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Speculum 89, 2014. 529-31.
  5. Taguchi, Mayumi. The History of the Patriarks Edited from Cambridge. St John’s College MS G 31. Middle English Texts. Heidelberg, 2010. Bulletin Codicologique 1, 2011. 53*-54*.
  6. Nichols, Ann Eljenholm ed. (2008). An Index of Images in English Manuscripts from the Time of Chaucer to Henry VIII, c. 1380- c. 1509. Cambridge I (Christ’s College, Clare College, Corpus Christi College, Emmanuel College, Gonville and Caius College, and The Fitzwilliam Museum). London/Turnhout, Harvey Miller Publishers, 2008. Bulletin Codicologique.
  7. Driver, Martha W., Michael T. Orr, and Kathleen L. Scott. An Index of Images in English Manuscripts from the Time of Chaucer to Henry VIII, c.1380 - c.1509: New York City Columbia University - Union Theological. Ed. Kathleen L. Scott. London: Harvey Miller, 2007. Bulletin Codicologique, 2008. 2. 177-78. (475)
  8. Keller, Wolfram R.. Selves & Nations. The Troy Story from Sicily to England in the Middle Ages. Journal for the Study of British Cultures. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2008.
  9. Meier, Nicole, ed. The Poems of Walter Kennedy. Scottish Text Society. 5th Series. no. 6. Edinburgh. The Scottish Text Society, 2008. Anglia.
  10. Machan, Tim William, ed. Chaucer's Boece. A critical edition based on Cambridge University Library. MS Ii.3.21, ff. 9r-180v. Middle English Texts 38. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2008. Anglia.
  11. Desmond, Marilynn. Ovid’s Art and The Wife of Bath. The Ethics of Erotic Violence. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2006. Bulletin Codicologique, 2007.180-81. (425)
  12. Horner, Patrick J. ed. and transl. A Macaronic Sermon Collection from late Medieval England: Oxford, MS Bodley 649. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies – Turnhout, Brepols, 2006. Bulletin Codicologique.
  13. Kubouchi, Tadao et al., eds. The Ancrene Wisse: A Four-Manuscript Parallel Text. Parts 5-8 with Wordlists. Studies in English Medieval Literature 11. Frankfurt/M.: Lang, 2005. xix. 360 pp. Anglia.
  14. Machan, Tim William, ed. with the assistance of A. J. Minnis. Sources of the Boece. The Chaucer Library. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2005. Anglia 126, 2008. 417-20.
  15. Minnis, Alastair and Ian Johnson, eds. The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. Volume II The Middle Ages. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005. Anglia 125, 2007. 127-30.
  16. Bredehoft, Thomas A. Early English Metre. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. viii. 183 pp. Toronto Old English Series 15. Mediaevistik 20, 2006. 265-69.
  17. Watson, Andrew G. Medieval Manuscripts in Post-Medieval England. Aldershot, Ashgate, 2004. Bulletin Codicologique, 2006. 267*-268*. (684)
  18. Irvine, Susan, ed. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. A Collaborative Edition. Volume 7:  MS E. A Semi-Diplomatic Edition with Introduction and Indices. . Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2004. Bulletin Codicologique, 2006.139*. (352)
  19. Reynolds, Sr. Anna Maria and Julia Bolton Holloway, eds., Julian of Norwich, Showing of Love. Extant Texts and Translation (Firenze: SISMEL, 2001) Bulletin Codicologique, 2003. 83*-84*. (175)
  20. Salter, David. Holy and Noble Beasts. Encounters with Animals in Medieval Literature. Woodbridge: D.S. Brewer, 2001. Notes and Queries 50, 2003. 224–25.
  21. Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn and Denise L. Despres. Iconography and the Professional Reader. The Politics of Book Production in the Douce ‘Piers Plowman’. Medieval Cultures 15. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999 Bulletin Codicologique, 2002. 201*–2*. (490)
  22. Blumreich, Kathleen Marie, ed. The Middle English 'Mirror'. An Edition Based on Bodleian Library MS Holkham. misc. 40. Tempe, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in collaboration with Brepols, 2002. Bulletin Codicologique.
  23. Orton, Peter. The Transmission of Old English Poetry. Westfield Publications in Medieval and Renaissance Studies 12. Turnhout: Brepols, 2000. Bulletin Codicologique, 2002. 273*. (641)
  24. McKeown, Simon and William E. Sheidley, eds. ‘The Shippe of Safegarde’ (1569) by Barnabe Googe. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2001. Bulletin Codicologique, 2002. 263*. (619)
  25. Smetana, Cyril Lawrence ed. ‘The Life of Saint Augustine’ by John Capgrave edited from British Library Additional MS 36704 together with Jordanus of Saxony’s ‘Vita s. Augustine’ from Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal, MS 251. O.S.A. Toronto, PIMS, 2001. Bulletin Codicologique, 2002. 216*–17*. (523)
  26. Pearsall, Derek ed. New Directions in Later Medieval Manuscripts Studies. Essays from the 1998 Harvard Conference. Woodbridge: York Medieval Press, 2000. Bulletin Codicologique, 2001.
  27. Baker, Peter S. ed. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. A Collaborative Edition. Volume 8 MS F. A Semi-Diplomatic Edition with Introduction and Indices. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2000, and Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe, ed. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ... Volume 5 MS C. Cambridge. D.S. Brewer, 2001. Bulletin Codicologique, 2001. 156*–157*. (363)
  28. MICROLOGUS. Natura, scienze e società medievali. Nature, Sciences and Medieval Societies. VIII, 1 / VIII, 2. Il mondo animale. The World of Animals.Firenze, SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2000. Bulletin Codicologique, 2001. 261*–262*. (568)
  29. Parker, Douglas H., ed. The praier and complaynte of the ploweman vnto Christe. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. Bulletin Codicologique, 2000. 102*. (270)
  30. Leclercq-Marx, Jacqueline. La sirène dans la pensée et dans l’art de l’Antiquité et du Moyen Âge. Du mythe païen au symbole chrétien. Bruxelles, Académie royale de Belgique. Classe des Beaux-Arts, 1997. Bulletin Codicologique, 2000. 70*–71*. (186)
  31. Baxter, Ron. Bestiaries and their Users in the Middle Ages. Stroud: Sutton Publishing Limited, 1998. Bulletin Codicologique, 1999. 2. 149*–51*. (371)
  32. Klene, Jean, ed. The Southwell-Sibthorpe Commonplace Book. Folger MS. V.b.198. C.S.C. Renaissance English Text Society. 7th series. Volume XX) Tempe, Arizona. Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1997. Bulletin Codicologique, 1998.
  33. Mapstone, Sally ed. Scots and their Books in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. An Exhibition in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Oxford: Bodleian Library, 1996. Bulletin Codicologique, 1998. 1. 110*-111*. (287)
  34. Piers Plowman. A Facsimile of the Z-Text in Bodleian Library. Oxford, MS Bodley 851. Introduced by Charlotte Brewer and A.G. Rigg. Cambridge, D. S. Brewer, 1994. Bulletin Codicologique, 1998. 1. 99*. (258)
  35. Klitgård, Ebbe. Chaucer’s Narrative Voice in the Knight’s Tale. Copenhagen:: Museum Tusculanum Press. University of Copenhagen, 1995. English Studies 79, 1998. 368–69.
  36. Benson, C. David. Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde. London, 1990. English Studies 73, 1992. 191–92.
Conference Papers
  1. The Sedentary Swallow in Henryson's 'The Preaching of the Swallow’. Twelfth Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Language and Literature Conference. Edinburgh, 30 June-4 July 2008.
  2. ‘Bestiaries in Wood? Misericords, Animal Imagery and the Bestiary Tradition’, Second International Conference of Iconographic Studies: Animal Symbolism in Christian Art and Literature, Rijeka, 22-24 May, 2008.
  3. ‘Putting Old and Middle English Studies Back on the Map: Possible Approaches and Strategies’. Englische Sprachwissenschaft und Mediävistik: Standpunkte und Perspektiven, Fachtagung Bamberg, 21-22 May, 2004.
  4. ‘Bestiaries and mirabilia: the case of the English and the Dutch Hortus Sanitatis’. 15ième Colloque International Épopée Animale, Fable & Fabliau. Société Internationale Renardienne. Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique, 19-22 August 2003.
  5. ‘A Database of Medieval Animals and Animal Symbolism’. ‘World Wide Access to the Sources: Texts and Tools, II - A Round Table Discussion’.Session 906. International Medieval Congress: Power and Authority. University of Leeds. Leeds, United Kingdom, 14–17 July, 2003.
  6. ‘Creature, heal thyself’: Self-healing animals and the Hortus sanitatis. International Workshop Sexualität und Imagination. Pathologien der Einbildungskraft im medizinischen Diskurs der frühen Neuzeit (1500-1800)’, Institut für Geschichte der Medizin. Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, 23–24 May, 2002.
  7. ‘The noble lyfe and natures of man, of bestes, serpentys, fowles, and fisshes þat be moste knowen: The English and Dutch editions of the animal parts of the Hortus Sanitatis’. Knowledge, Learning and Cultural Change. Groningen, The Netherlands, 14–17 November, 2001.
  8. ‘Fear and Instinct in Chaucer’s Nun’s Priest’s Tale’. 6th Annual ACMRS Conference: Fear and Its Representation in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Tempe, Arizona, February 17–19, 2000.
  9. ‘Brunetto Latini’s Livres dou tresor and So-Called Bestiary Lore.’ 34th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University. Kalamazoo MI, USA, 6–9 May, 1999.
  10. ‘Animal Symbolism: Bestiary Influences on the Encyclopaedias.’ 32nd International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo MI, USA, 8–11 May, 1997.
  11. ‘Dunbar and Nature.’ Eighth International Research Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Language and Literature. Oxford, August 17–21, 1996.
  12. ‘Bestiaries and the Encyclopaedias.’ International Congress on Pre-Modern Encyclopedias, Groningen 1–4 July, 1996.
  13. 30th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo MI, USA, 4–7 May, 1995.
  14. 'He that Evil does Hates the Light: The Owl Lapping the Oil from Church Lamps.' International Medieval Congress. University of Leeds, 4–7 July, 1994
  15. ‘Sex, Songs, and Sirens: A New “Score” for an Old Song’. 29th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo MI, USA, 5–8 May, 1994.
  16. Didascalicon: International Medievalists at Cornell. University of Cornell, Ithaca NY, USA, 1 May 1994.
  17. ‘Lions Without Vilany and Hermaphroditic Hares: Moralisations in a Heraldic Bestiary.’ Seventh International Research Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Language and Literature. Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, August 16–21, 1993.
  18. ‘From Dumb Beasts Learn Wisdom and Knowledge’: Animal Symbolism in the Ancrene Wisse.’ 10ième Colloque International Épopée Animale, Fable & Fabliau, Société Internationale Renardienne. Orléans, France, July 5–11, 1993.
  19. ‘The Boke of St. Albans: Manuscript into Print or Print into Manuscript?’ Boeken in de Late Middeleeuwen: Groningse Codicologendagen 1992, Groningen, The Netherlands, 7–9 October, 1992.

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