Writers, Editors and Exemplars in Medieval English Texts

1. IntroductionPart I Middle English Clerks, Texts and Readers2. Reading Dreams, Casting the Future and Other Learned Mirths: The Harley Scribe as Proto-Chaucerian Clerk3. Griselda as Mary: Chaucer's Clerk's Taleand Alanus de Rupe's Marian Exemplum4. On Chaucer's Clerk, His Books and the Value of Education5. Freedom and Choice: Postnuptial Negotiation, the Flitch of Bacon Custom, and the Woe of Marriage in The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale and The Book of Margery KempePart II The Lollards, Their Saints and Their Texts6. The Making of a Monumental Edition: The Holy Bible ... The Earliest English Versions Made from the Latin Vulgate by John Wyclif and His Followers7. Paratextual Frames for the Middle English Reader: The Additional Pauline Prologues in Cambridge, Emmanuel College MS 108, a Wycliffite New Testament8. Lollard Book Production and Richard Rolle's English Psalter and Canticles9. Blessed Hildegard: Another Kind of Lollard SaintPart III Old English and Its Afterlife10. "In his heart he believed in God, but he could not speak like a man" Martyrdom, Monstrosity, Speech, and the Dog-headed Saint Christopher11. Hengist's Tongue: Remembering (Old) English in John Gower's Confessio Amantis12. The Failed Masculinities of Tostig Godwinson13. Elizabeth Elstob, Old English Law, and the Origin of Anglo-Saxon Studies: A Critical Edition of Samuel Pegge's "An Historical Account of ... the Textus Roffensis" (1767)