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The Longman Anthology of British Literature: The Middle Ages

by: Damrosch, David; Manning, Peter; Baswell, Christopher; Schotter, Anne; Sharpe, William; Sherman, Stuart; Schotter, Anne

The Longman Anthology of British Literature: The Middle Ages

by: Damrosch, David; Manning, Peter; Baswell, Christopher; Schotter, Anne; Sharpe, William; Sherman, Stuart; Schotter, Anne

ISBN 13:
9780321067623
ISBN 10:
0321067622
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 10/01/1999
Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Summary

Volume 1A (The Middle Ages) of 6-volume splits of parent volumes.

Preface

Acknowledgments

xvii

Political and Religious Orders

xxi

Money, Weights, and Measures

xxvii

Bibliography

xxix

The Middle Ages Before the Norman Conquest

(168)

Beowulf

(68)

The Tain Bo Cuailnge

(19)

The Pillow Talk

(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 Romance

170

(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 Writings

437

(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 Poets

558

(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 Terms

569

(24)

Credits

593

(2)

Index

595

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