Medieval Poetics and Social PracticeThis collection responds to the critical legacy of Penn R. Szittya, the recently retired former chair of Georgetown Universitys English Department. Inspired by Georgetowns Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice and its statement that poetry traverses the fields of aesthetic, social, political, and religious thought, this work investigates how medieval poetic language reflects and also shapes social, political, and religious worlds. At a moment