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Middle English Literature: A Historical Sourcebook

ISBN: 978-0-631-23148-6
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340 pages
July 2003, Wiley-Blackwell
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List of Literary Works and Related Topics.

Table of Dates, 1325–1500.

List of Plates.

Acknowledgements.

Map.

Introduction.

1. Conventions And Institutions.

Benedictine Rule.

Friars.

Humors.

Marriage.

Pilgrimage.

Prioresses.

2 Force And Order.

Battle of Agincourt.

The English and England.

Lollardy Trials.

Usurpation.

3 Gender, Sexuality, And Difference.

Amazons.

Chastity, Marriage, Widowhood, And Virginity.

The Far East.

God’s Unknowability.

Lechers And Sodomites.

Saracens.

Women: Margaret Paston.

4 Images.

Lovell Lectionary.

Anne Of Burgundy, Duchess Of Bedford, Before St. Anne.

Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales (Ellesmere).

Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales (Hengwrt).

Chaucer Portrait: Thomas Hoccleve, Regiment Of Princes.

Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde.

Court Of King’s Bench.

“Miracle Of The Boy Singer”.

New College, Oxford University.

Revolt: Jean Froissart, Chroniques.

Richard Ii Presented To The Virgin And Christ.

Royal Benefactors.

5 Labor And Capital.

Guilds.

Ordinance And Statute Of Laborers.

Pestilence.

The Revolt.

6 Style And Spectacle.

Feasts.

The Hunt.

Pageants.

Processions.

Sumptuary.

Tournaments.

7 Textualities.

Audience Reactions To Sermons.

Books.

Censorship.

Enarratio (Analysis And Exposition Of Texts).

The English Language.

Plays and Representations.

Appendix: Currency, Income, Prices; Measures.

Glossary.

Bibliography.

Index.

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