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Contents
List of Literary Works and Related Topics
viii
Table
of Dates, 1325–1500
xvi
List of Plates
xxiii
Acknowledgments
xxv
Map
xxviii
Introduction
xxix
1 Conventions and Institutions
1
Benedictine Rule
1
Friars
7
Humors
13
Marriage
21
Pilgrimage
32
Prioresses
37
2 Force and Order
46
Battle of Agincourt
46
The English and England
50
Lollardy Trials
59
Usurpation
69
3 Gender, Sexuality,
and Difference
88
Amazons
88
Chastity, Marriage, Widowhood, and Virginity
93
The Far East
99
God’s Unknowability
110
Lechers and Sodomites
114
Saracens
118
Women:
Margaret Paston
126
4 Images
133
Lovell Lectionary
133
Anne of Burgundy, duchess of Bedford, before St. Anne
135
Geoffrey Chaucer,
Canterbury Tales (Ellesmere)
137
Geoffrey Chaucer,
Canterbury Tales (Hengwrt)
139
Chaucer portrait: Thomas Hoccleve,
Regiment of Princes
141
Geoffrey Chaucer,
Troilus and Criseyde
143
Court of King’s Bench
145
“Miracle of the Boy Singer”
147
New College,
Oxford University
149
Revolt: Jean Froissart,
Chroniques
151
Richard II presented to the Virgin and Christ
152
Royal Benefactors
154
5 Labor and Capital
156
Guilds
156
Ordinance and Statute of Laborers
163
Pestilence
169
The Revolt
175
6 Style
and Spectacle
190
Feasts
190
The Hunt
197
Pageants
204
Processions
209
Sumptuary
215
Tournaments
224
7 Textualities
232
Audience Reactions to Sermons
232
Books
235
Censorship
242
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