Preface
Abbreviations
Chronology
Maps
Introduction
1. Conquest and Conqueror
2. Early Anglo-Latin Religious Prose
3. Science, Learning, and Instructive Stories
4. Early Anglo-Latin Historians, Scholars, Encyclopedists, and Entertainers
5. 'The Matter of Britain': Geoffrey of Monmouth
6. Early Anglo-Norman Poetry: Benedeit's Voyage of St Brendan
7. Anglo-Norman Verse Chronicles
8. English in the Earlier Period
9. Science, Learning, and Instruction: Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
10. 'The Matter of Britain' in English: Layamon's Brut
11. Anglo-Latin Poetry: Songs and Satire
12. Saints' Lives and Visions
13. Anglo-Norman Romances
14. Romances and Outlaw Tales
15. Tales of Antiquity
16. Short Romances and Lais: Marie the France
17. Fables and Animal Stories: Marie de France and others
18. Debate: The Owl and the Nightingale
19. Burlesque, Parody, Merry Tale
20. Early Middle English Religious Prose: the 'Katherine Group', the 'Wooing Group', and Ancrene Wisse
21. Moral and Religious Verse and Prose
22. English Romances
23. Lyrics, Anglo-Norman and Middle English
24. Drama
25. Later Chroniclers, Scholars and Theologians
26. English Narrative in the earlier Fourteenth Century: Robert Mannyng
27. Earlier Fourteenth-Century Alliterative Poems
28. Earlier Fourteenth-Century Mystical Writing: Richard Rolle
29. Private Devotion: Henry of Lancaster's Le Livre de Seyntz
30. Wonders of the East: Mandeville's Travels
Bibliographical Notes