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This was the first full-scale history of medieval English literature for nearly a century. Thirty-three distinguished contributors offer a collaborative account of literature composed or transmitted in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland between the Norman conquest and the death of Henry VIII in 1547. The volume has five sections: 'After the Norman Conquest'; 'Writing in the British Isles'; 'Institutional Productions'; 'After the Black Death' and 'Before the Reformation'. It provides information on a vast range of literary texts and the conditions of their production and reception, which will serve both specialists and general readers, and also contains a chronology, full bibliography and a detailed index. This book offers an extensive and vibrant account of the medieval literatures so drastically reconfigured in Tudor England. It will thus prove essential reading for scholars of the Renaissance as well as medievalists, and for historians as well as literary specialists.

Account of medieval English literature to appear for nearly a century.

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CONTENTS

Ⅰ AFTERTHE NORMAN CONQUEST

 Introduction = 3

 1. Old English and its afterlife / SETH LERER = 7

 2. Angol-Norman cultures in England, 1066-1460 / SUSAN CRANE = 35

 3. Early Middle English / THOMAS HAHN = 61

 4. National, world and women's history : writers and readers in post-Conquest England / LESLEY JOHNSON AND JOCELYN WOGAN-BROWNE = 92

 5. Latinitas / CHRISTOPHER BASWELL = 122

 6. Romance in England, 1066-1400 / ROSALIND FIELD = 152

Ⅱ WRITIN IN THE BRITISH ISLES

 Introduction = 179

 7. Writing in Wales / BRYNLE F. ROBERTS = 182

 8. Writing in Ireland / TERENCE DOLAN = 208

 9. Writing in Scotland, 1058-1560 / R. JAMES GOLDSTEIN = 229

 10. Writing history in England / ANDREW GALLOWAY = 255

 11. London texts and literate practice / SHEILA LINDENBAUM = 284

Ⅲ INSTITUTIONAL PRODUCTIONS

 Introduction = 313

 12. Monastic productions / CHRISTOPHER CANNON = 316

 13. The friars and medieval English literature / JOHN V. FLEMING = 349

 14. Classroom and confession / JARJORIE CURRY WOODS and RITA COPELAND = 376

 15. Medieval literature and law / RICHARD FIRTH GREEN = 407

 16. Vox populi and the literature of 1381 / DAVID AERS = 432

 17. Englishing the Bible, 1066-1549 / DAVID LAWTON = 454

Ⅳ AFTER THE BLACK DEATH

 Introduction = 485

 18. Alliterative poetry / RALPH HANNA = 488

 19. Piers Plowman / KATHRYN KERBY-FULTON = 513

 20. The Middle English mystics / NICHOLAS WATSON = 539

 21. Geoffrey Chaucer / GLENDING OLSON = 566

 22. John Gower / WINTHROP WETHERBEE = 589

 23. Middle English lives / JULIA BOFFEY = 610

Ⅴ BEFORE THE REFORMATION

 Introduction = 637

 24. Hoccleve, Lydgate and the Lancastrian court / PAUL STROHM = 640

 25. Lollardy / STEVEN JUSTICE = 662

 26. Romance after 1400 / HELEN COOPER = 690

 27. William Caxton / SETH LERER = 720

 28. English drama : from ungodly ludi to sacred play / LAWRENCE M. CLOPPER = 739

 29. The allegorical theatre : moralities, interludes and Protestand drama / JOHN WATKINS = 767

 30. The experience of exclusion : literature and politics in the reigns of Henry Ⅶ and Henry Ⅷ / COLIN BURROW = 793

 31. Reformed literature and literature reformed / BRIAN CUMMINGS = 821

Chronological outline of historical events and texts in Britain, 1050-1550 / WILLIAM P. MARVIN = 852

Bibliography / WILLIAM P. MARVIN = 881

Index of manuscripts = 991

Index = 994