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| List of Illustrations | p. xiii |
| Additional Audio and Online Resources | p. xv |
| Preface | p. xvii |
| Acknowledgments | p. xxv |
| Political and Religious Orders | p. xxix |
| Money, Weights, and Measures | p. xxxv |
| Bibliography | p. xxxvii |
| Credits | p. xlix |
| The Middle Ages | p. 3 |
| Before the Norman Conquest | p. 27 |
| Beo... MORE | p. 27 |
| Response | |
| from Grendel | p. 93 |
| Early Irish Narrative | p. 96 |
| The Labour Pains of the Ulaid | p. 97 |
| The Birth of Cu Chulainn | p. 98 |
| The Naming of Cu Chulainn | p. 99 |
| Early Irish Verse | p. 100 |
| To Crinog | p. 101 |
| Pangur the Cat | p. 102 |
| Writing in the Wood | p. 103 |
| The Viking Terror | p. 103 |
| The Old Woman of Beare | p. 104 |
| Findabair Remembers Froech | p. 107 |
| A Grave Marked with Ogam | p. 107 |
| from The Voyage of Mael Duin | p. 108 |
| Judith | p. 109 |
| The Dream of the Rood | p. 115 |
| Perspectives: Ethnic and Religious Encounters | p. 120 |
| Bede | p. 121 |
| from An Ecclesiastical History of the English People | p. 122 |
| Bishop Asser | p. 127 |
| from The Life of King Alfred | p. 127 |
| King Alfred | p. 129 |
| Preface to Saint Gregory's Pastoral Care | p. 129 |
| Ohthere's Journeys | p. 131 |
| The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle | p. 134 |
| Stamford Bridge and Hastings | p. 134 |
| Taliesin | p. 135 |
| Urien Yrechwydd | p. 136 |
| The Battle of Argoed Llwyfain | p. 137 |
| The War-Band's Return | p. 137 |
| Lament for Owain Son of Urien | p. 139 |
| The Tale of Taliesin | p. 139 |
| The Wanderer | p. 153 |
| Wulf and Eadwacer and the Wife's Lament | p. 156 |
| Riddles | p. 158 |
| Three Anglo-Latin Riddles by Aldhelm | p. 159 |
| Five Old English Riddles | p. 160 |
| After the Norman Conquest | p. 163 |
| Perspectives: Arthurian Myth in the History of Britain | p. 163 |
| Geoffrey of Monmouth | p. 164 |
| from History of the Kings of Britain | p. 165 |
| Gerald of Wales | p. 175 |
| from The Instruction of Princes | p. 176 |
| Edward I | p. 177 |
| Letter sent to the Papal Court of Rome | p. 178 |
| Response | |
| A Report to Edward I | p. 179 |
| Arthurian Romance | p. 181 |
| Marie De France | p. 181 |
| Lais | p. 182 |
| Prologue | p. 182 |
| Lanval | p. 184 |
| Chevrefoil (The Honeysuckle) | p. 198 |
| Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | p. 200 |
| Sir Thomas Malory | p. 259 |
| Morte Darthur | p. 260 |
| from Caxton's Prologue | p. 260 |
| The Miracle of Galahad | p. 262 |
| The Poisoned Apple | p. 270 |
| The Day of Destiny | p. 279 |
| Responses | |
| from The Mists of Avalon | p. 289 |
| scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail | p. 291 |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | p. 293 |
| The Parliament of Fowls | p. 298 |
| The Canterbury Tales | p. 316 |
| The General Prologue (Middle English and modern translation) | p. 318 |
| The Miller's Tale | p. 358 |
| The Introduction | p. 358 |
| The Tale | p. 360 |
| The Wife of Bath's Prologue | p. 375 |
| The Wife of Bath's Tale | p. 394 |
| Response | |
| from The Treatise of the Two Married Women and the Widow | p. 403 |
| The Franklin's Tale | p. 407 |
| The Prologue | p. 407 |
| The Tale | p. 408 |
| The Pardoner's Prologue | p. 427 |
| The Pardoner's Tale | p. 432 |
| The Nun's Priest's Tale | p. 444 |
| The Parson's Tale | p. 460 |
| The Introduction | p. 460 |
| [The Remedy for the Sin of Lechery] | p. 462 |
| Chaucer's Retraction | p. 464 |
| To His Scribe Adam | p. 465 |
| Complaint to His Purse | p. 466 |
| William Langland | p. 466 |
| Piers Plowman | p. 469 |
| Prologue | p. 469 |
| Passus 2 | p. 471 |
| from Passus 6 | p. 473 |
| Passus 8 | p. 475 |
| Passus 20 | p. 484 |
| "Piers Plowman" and Its Time: The Rising of 1381 | p. 495 |
| from The Anonimalle Chronicle [Wat Tyler's Demands to Richard II, and His Death] | p. 497 |
| Three Poems on the Rising of 1381: John Ball's First Letter | p. 502 |
| John Ball's Second Letter | p. 503 |
| The Course of Revolt | p. 503 |
| from The Voice of One Crying | p. 505 |
| Mystical Writings | p. 508 |
| Julian of Norwich | p. 509 |
| A Book of Showings | p. 510 |
| [Three Graces. Illness. The First Revelation] | p. 510 |
| [Laughing at the Devil] | p. 514 |
| [Christ Draws Julian in through His Wound] | p. 515 |
| [The Necessity of Sin, and of Hating Sin] | p. 517 |
| [God as Father, Mother, Husband] | p. 518 |
| [The Soul as Christ's Citadel] | p. 523 |
| [The Meaning of the Visions Is Love] | p. 524 |
| Companion Readings | |
| from The Fire of Love | p. 526 |
| from The Cloud of Unknowing | p. 527 |
| Response | |
| The Dream of Washing Quilts | p. 529 |
| Medieval Biblical Drama | p. 531 |
| The Second Play of the Shepherds | p. 532 |
| The York Play of the Crucifixion | p. 551 |
| Vernacular Religion | p. 559 |
| The Wycliffite Bible | p. 562 |
| John 10.11-18 | p. 562 |
| from A Wycliffite Sermon on John 10.11-18 | p. 562 |
| John Mirk | p. 564 |
| from Festial | p. 564 |
| Preaching and Teaching in the Vernacular | p. 567 |
| Nicholas Love | p. 568 |
| from The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ | p. 568 |
| from The Confession of Hawisia Moone of Loddon | p. 569 |
| Margery Kempe | p. 572 |
| The Book of Margery Kempe | p. 573 |
| The Preface | p. 573 |
| [Early Life and Temptations, Revelation, Desire for Foreign Pilgrimage] | p. 573 |
| [Meeting with Bishop of Lincoln and Archbishop of Canterbury] | p. 580 |
| [Visit with Julian of Norwich] | p. 583 |
| [Pilgrimage to Jerusalem] | p. 585 |
| [Arrest by Duke of Bedford's Men; Meeting with Archbishop of York] | p. 587 |
| Middle English Lyrics | p. 591 |
| The Cuckoo Song ("Sumer is icumen in") | p. 593 |
| Spring ("Lenten is come with love to toune") | p. 593 |
| Alisoun ("Bitwene Mersh and Averil") | p. 595 |
| I Have a Noble Cock | p. 596 |
| My Lefe Is Faren in a Lond | p. 596 |
| Fowls in the Frith | p. 597 |
| Abuse of Women ("In every place ye may well see") | p. 597 |
| The Irish Dancer ("Gode sire, pray ich thee") | p. 598 |
| A Forsaken Maiden's Lament ("I lovede a child of this cuntree") | p. 599 |
| The Wily Clerk ("This enther day I mete a clerke") | p. 599 |
| Jolly Jankin ("As I went on YoI Day in our procession") | p. 600 |
| Adam Lay Ibounden | p. 601 |
| I Sing of a Maiden | p. 601 |
| In Praise of Mary ("Edi be thu, Hevene Quene") | p. 602 |
| Mary Is with Child ("Under a tree") | p. 603 |
| Sweet Jesus, King of Bliss | p. 604 |
| Now Goeth Sun under Wood | p. 606 |
| Jesus, My Sweet Lover ("Jesu Christ, my lemmon swete") | p. 606 |
| Contempt of the World ("Where beth they biforen us weren?") | p. 606 |
| Dafydd Ap Gwilym | p. 608 |
| Aubade | p. 609 |
| One Saving Place | p. 610 |
| The Girls of Llanbadarn | p. 612 |
| Tale of a Wayside Inn | p. 613 |
| The Hateful Husband | p. 615 |
| The Winter | p. 616 |
| The Ruin | p. 617 |
| Middle Scots Poets | p. 618 |
| William Dunbar | p. 618 |
| Lament for the Makars | p. 618 |
| Done Is a Battell | p. 621 |
| In Secreit Place This Hyndir Nycht | p. 622 |
| Robert Henryson | p. 624 |
| Robene and Makyne | p. 624 |
| Late Medieval Allegory | p. 628 |
| Charles D'Orleans | p. 628 |
| Ballade 26 | p. 629 |
| Ballade 61 | p. 630 |
| Roundel 94 | p. 631 |
| Mankind | p. 631 |
| Christine De Pizan | p. 658 |
| from Book of the City of Ladies | p. 659 |
| Literary and Cultural Terms | p. 666 |
| Index | p. 685 |
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