preface to the eighth edition
acknowledgments
the middle ages (to ca. 1485)
　introduction
　anglo-saxon literature
　anglo-norman literature
　middle english literature in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
　medieval english
　old and middle english prosody
　timeline
anglo-saxon literature
　bede (ca. 673–735) and cædmon’s hymn
　an ecclesiastical history of the english people
　[the story of cædmon]
　the dream of the rood
　beowulf translated by seamus heaney
　judith
　king alfred (849–899)
　preface to the pastoral care
　the wanderer
.　the wife’s lament
anglo-norman literature
　the anglo-saxon chronicle
　　[obituary for william the conqueror]
　contents
　　legendary histories of britain
　geoffrey of monmouth: the history of the kings of britain
　　[the story of brutus and diana’s prophecy]
　wace: le roman de brut
　　[the roman challenge]
　　layamon: brut
　　[arthur’s dream]
　　the myth of arthur’s return
　geoffrey of monmouth: from the history of the kings of britain 127
　wace: from le roman de brut
　layamon: from brut
　celtic contexts
　exile of the sons of uisliu
　thomas of england: le roman de tristran
　[the deaths of tristran and ysolt]
marie de france
　lanval
　chevrefoil
ancrene riwle (rule for anchoresses)
　[the parable of the christ-knight]
middle english literature in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
sir gawain and the green knight (ca. 1375–1400)
geoffrey chaucer (ca. 1343–1400)
　the canterbury tales
　the general prologue
　summary: the knight’s tale
　the miller’s prologue and tale
　the prologue
　the tale
　the man of law’s epilogue
　the wife of bath’s prologue and tale
　the prologue
　the tale
　the pardoner’s prologue and tale
　the introduction
　the prologue
　contents
　the tale
　the epilogue
　the nun’s priest’s tale
　[close of canterbury tales]
　the parson’s tale
　the introduction
　chaucer’s retraction
　lyrics and occasional verse
　troilus’s song
　truth
　to his scribe adam
　complaint to his purse
　john gower (ca. 1330–1408)
　the lover’s confession
　the tale of philomena and tereus
william langland (ca. 1330–1387)
william langland
middle english incarnation and crucifixion lyrics
julian of norwich (1342–ca. 1416)
margery kempe (ca. 1373–1438)
the york play of the crucifixion (ca. 1425)
mystery plays
middle english lyrics
sir thomas malory (ca. 1405–1471)
robert henryson (ca. 1425–ca. 1500)
everyman (after 1485)
the sixteenth century (1485–1603)
john skelton (ca. 1460–1529)
sir thomas more (1478–1535)
sir thomas wyatt the elder (1503–1542)
henry howard, earl of surrey (1517–1547)
the english bible
william tyndale: the obedience of a christian man
thomas more: a dialogue concerning heresies
john calvin: the institution of christian religion
anne askew: from the first examination of anne askew
book of common prayer: from the form of solemnization
book of homilies: from an homily against disobedience
richard hooker: of the laws of ecclesiastical polity
robert southwell: the burning babe
roger ascham (1515–1568)
sir thomas hoby (1530–1566)
lady jane grey
elizabeth i
arthur golding (1536–1605)
ovid’s metamorphoses
[the four ages]
edmund spenser (1552–1599)
sir walter ralegh (1552–1618)
frobisher’s voyages to the arctic, 1576–78
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