Peter Brown 
A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture, c.1350 – c.1500 [PDF ebook] 

List of Illustrations ix
Notes on Contributors x
Acknowledgements xv
Abbreviations xvi
Introduction 1
PART I Overviews 7
1. Critical Approaches 9
David Raybin
2. English Society in the Later Middle Ages: Deference, Ambition
and Conflict 25
S. H. Rigby
3. Religious Authority and Dissent 40
Mishtooni Bose
4. City and Country, Wealth and Labour 56
Sarah Rees Jones
5. Women’s Voices and Roles 74
Carol M. Meale
PART II The Production and Reception of Texts
91
6. Manuscripts and Readers 93
A. S. G. Edwards
7. From Manuscript to Modern Text 107
Julia Boffey
8. Translation and Society 123
Catherine Batt
PART III Language and Literature 141
9. The Languages of Medieval Britain 143
Laura Wright
10. The Forms of Speech 159
Donka Minkova
11. The Forms of Verse 176
Donka Minkova
PART IV Encounters with Other Cultures 197
12. England and France 199
Ardis Butterfi eld
13. Britain and Italy: Trade, Travel, Translation 215
Nick Havely
14. England’s Antiquities: Middle English Literature and the
Classical Past 231
Christopher Baswell
15. Jews, Saracens, ‘Black Men’, Tartars: England in a World of
Racial Difference 247
Geraldine Heng
PART V Special Themes 271
16. War and Chivalry 273
Richard W. Kaeuper and Montgomery Bohna
17. Literature and Law 292
Richard Firth Green
18. Images 307
Peter Brown
19. Love 322
Barry Windeatt
PART VI Genres 339
20. Middle English Romance 341
Thomas Hahn and Dana M. Symons
21. Writing Nation: Shaping Identity in Medieval Historical
Narratives 358
Raluca L. Radulescu
22. Dream Poems 374
Helen Phillips
23. Lyric 387
Rosemary Greentree
24. Literature of Religious Instruction 406
E. A. Jones
25. Mystical and Devotional Literature 423
Denise N. Baker
26. Accounts of Lives 437
Kathleen Ashley
27. Medieval English Theatre: Codes and Genres 454
Meg Twycross
28. Morality and Interlude Drama 473
Darryll Grantley
PART VII Readings 489
29. York Mystery Plays 491
Pamela King
30. The Book of Margery Kempe 507
Ruth Evans
31. Julian of Norwich 522
Santha Bhattacharji
32. Piers Plowman 537
Stephen Kelly
33. Subjectivity and Ideology in the Canterbury Tales
554
Mark Miller
34. John Gower and John Lydgate: Forms and Norms of Rhetorical
Culture 569
J. Allan Mitchell
35. Thomas Hoccleve, La Male Regle 585
Nicholas Perkins
36. Discipline and Relaxation in the Poetry of Robert Henryson
604
R. James Goldstein
37. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 619
Kevin Gustafson
38. Blood and Love in Malory’s Morte Darthur 634
Catherine La Farge
Index 649

Peter Brown is Professor of Medieval English Literature at the University of Kent. His book publications include A Companion to Chaucer (Wiley-Blackwell, 2000), Reading Dreams: The Interpretation of Dreams from Chaucer to Shakespeare (1999), Chaucer at Work: The Making of the Canterbury Tales (1994) and, with Andrew Butcher, The Age of Saturn: Literature and History in the Canterbury Tales (1991).