Middle English Literature

Document Outline

• Middle English Literature: A HISTORICAL SOURCEBOOK
  • Contents
  • List of Literary Works and Related Topics
  • Table of Dates, 1325…1500
  • List of Plates
  • Acknowledgments
  • 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