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Longman Anthology of British Literature Vol. 1A : The Middle Ages

ISBN: 9780321067623 | 0321067622
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 10/1/1999

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SummaryTable of Contents
Volume 1A (The Middle Ages) of 6-volume splits of parent volumes.
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Prefacexi
Acknowledgmentsxvii
Political and Religious Ordersxxi
Money, Weights, and Measuresxxvii
Bibliographyxxix
The Middle Ages Before the Norman Conquest2(168)
Beowulf
27(68)
The Tain Bo Cuailnge
95(19)
The Pillow Talk
97(6)
The Tain Begins
103(1)
The Last Battle
104(10)
Judith
114(6)
The Dream of the Rood
120(4)
Perspectives: Ethnic and Religious Encounters
124(15)
Bede
126(5)
from An Ecclesiastical History of the English People
126(5)
Bishop Asser
131(3)
from The Life of King Alfred
132(2)
King Alfred
134(1)
Preface to Saint Gregory's Pastoral Care
134(1)
Ohthere's Journeys
135(3)
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
138(1)
Stamford Bridge and Hastings
138(1)
Taliesin
139(4)
Urien Yrechwydd
140(1)
The Battle of Argoed Llwyfain
141(1)
The War-Band's Return
141(2)
Lament for Owain Son of Urien
143(1)
The Wanderer
143(3)
Wulf and Eadwacer and The Wife's Lament
146(3)
Riddles
149(3)
Three Anglo-Latin Riddles Aldhelm
150(1)
Five Old English Riddles
150(2)
After the Norman Conquest
Perspectives: Arthurian Myth in the History of Britain
152(18)
Geoffrey of Monmouth
153(12)
from History of the Kings of Britain
155(10)
Gerald of Wales
165(2)
from The Instruction of Princes
165(2)
Edward I
167(3)
Letter sent to the Papal Court
167(2)
Companion Reading A Report to Edward I
169(1)
Arthurian Romance170(267)
Marie De France
170(15)
Lais
171(1)
Prologue
171(1)
Lanval
172(13)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
185(57)
Sir Thomas Malory
242(30)
Morte Darthur
243(1)
from Caxton's Prologue
243(2)
The Miracle of Galahad
245(7)
The Poisoned Apple
252(10)
The Day of Destiny
262(10)
Geoffrey Chaucer
272(122)
The Parliament of Fowls
276(17)
The Canterbury Tales
293(1)
The General Prologue
293(20)
The Miller's Tale
313(16)
The Introduction
314(1)
The Tale
315(14)
The Wife of Bath's Prologue
329(19)
The Wife of Bath's Tale
348(9)
The Pardoner's Prologue
357(4)
The Pardoner's Tale
361(11)
The Nun's Priest's Tale
372(15)
The Parson's Tale
387(5)
The Introduction
388(1)
from The Tale
389(1)
The Remedy for the Sin of Lechery
390(2)
Chaucer's Retraction
392(1)
To His Scribe Adam
392(1)
Complaint to His Purse
393(1)
William Langland
394(43)
Piers Plowman
396(41)
Prologue
396(5)
Passus 2
401(5)
Passus 6
406(8)
Passus 18
414(11)
Piers Plowman in Context: The Rising of 1381
425(1)
from The Anonimalle Chronicle [Wat Tyler's Demands to Richard II, and His Death]
426(5)
Three Poems on the Rising of 1381 John Ball's First Letter
431(1)
John Ball's Second Letter
431(1)
The Course of Revolt
432(2)
John Gower from The Voice of One Crying
434(3)
Mystical Writings437(121)
Richard Rolle
438(7)
The Fire of Love
438(7)
Prologue
438(2)
No one attains supreme devotion quickly
440(1)
About not judging another, but rather giving thanks
441(1)
How and when he was urged to the solitary life
442(3)
from The Cloud of Unknowing
445(2)
Julian of Norwich
447(14)
A Book of Showings
448(13)
[Three Graces.Illness. The First Relevation]
448(4)
[Christ Draws Julian in Through His Wound]
452(1)
[The Necessity of Sin, and of Hating Sin]
453(2)
[God as Father, Mother, Husband]
455(5)
[The Meaning of the Visions Is Love]
460(1)
The Second Play of the Shepherds
461(21)
Literature of Travel: Marvels and Pilgrimage
481(1)
The Voyage of Saint Brendan
482(10)
from The Voyage of Saint Brendan
483(9)
Sir John Mandeville
492(8)
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
493(7)
Of the royal estate of Prester John
493(3)
Of the head of the devil in the Vale Perilous
496(2)
Of the mountains of gold, which the ants watch over
498(2)
Margery Kempe
500(20)
The Book of Margery Kempe
502(18)
The Preface
502(1)
[Life and Temptations, Revelation, Desire for Foreign Pilgrimage]
502(10)
[Visit with Julian of Norwich]
512(2)
[Pilgrimage to Jerusalem]
514(4)
[Mystic Marriage with God]
518(2)
Middle English Lyrics
520(16)
The Cuckoo Song (``Sumer is icumen in'')
522(1)
Spring (``Lenten is come with love to toune'')
523(1)
Alisoun (``Bitwene Mersh and Averil'')
523(2)
I Have a Noble Cock
525(1)
My Lefe Is Faren in a Lond
525(1)
Fowles in the Frith
525(1)
Abuse of Women (``In every place ye may well see'')
525(2)
The Irish Dancer (``Gode sire pray ich thee'')
527(1)
A Forsaken Maiden's Lament (``I lovede a child of this cuntree'')
527(1)
The Wily Clerk (``This enther day I mete a clerke'')
528(1)
Jolly Jankin (``As I went on Yol Day in our procession'')
528(2)
Adam Lay Ibounden
530(1)
I Sing of a Maiden
530(1)
In Praise of Mary (``Edi be thu, Hevene Quene'')
531(1)
Mary Is with Child (``Under a tree'')
532(1)
Sweet Jesus, King of Bliss
533(1)
Now Goeth Sun under Wood
534(1)
Jesus, My Sweet Lover (``Jesu Christ, my lemmon swete'')
535(1)
Contempt of the World (``Where beth they biforen us weren'')
535(1)
The Tale of Taliesin
536(13)
Dafydd Ap Gwilym
549(9)
Aubade
551(1)
One Saving Place
552(1)
The Girls of Llanbadarn
553(1)
Tale of a Wayside Inn
554(2)
The Hateful Husband
556(1)
The Winter
557(1)
The Ruin
558(1)
Middle Scots Poets558(11)
William Dunbar
559(5)
Lament for the Makars
559(3)
Done Is a Battell
562(1)
In Secreit Place This Hyndir Nycht
563(1)
Robert Henryson
564(5)
Robene and Makyne
565(4)
Glossary of Literary and Cultural Terms569(24)
Credits593(2)
Index595

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