Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface Notes on Contributors Chronology Introduction: The Challenges and Rewards of Medieval English Literature; Beatrice Fannon PART I: READING MEDIEVAL ROMANCE 1. The Ownsership of Literature: Medieval Literature in its Historical Context; John Hines 2. Liminality in Middle English Arthurian Romances; Raluca Radulescu 3. Shifting Identities and Lanscapes in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; Gillian Rudd 4. Untraditional Medieval Literature: Romance, Fabliaux, Robin Hood and 'King and Subject' Ballads; Stephen Knight PART II: CHAUCER 5. Politics in the Reign of Richard II and the Works of Chaucer; Helen Phillips 6. The Consolations and Conflicts of History: Chaucer's 'Monk's Tale'; Rob Gossedge 7. Authors and Readers in Chaucer's House of Fame; Lewis Beer 8. Tie Knots and Slip Knots: Sexual Difference and Memory in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde; Ruth Evans 9. Chaucer and the Poetics of Gold; Valerie Allen PART III: RELIGIOUS TEXTS AND CONTEXTS 10. The Torment of the Cross: Perspectives on the Crucifixion in Medieval Lyric and Drama; Beatrice Fannon 11. Encountering Piers Plowman; Catherine Batt12. Work in Progress: Spiritual Authorship and the Middle English Mystics; Roger Ellis 13. Women's Voices in Middle English Literature: Who Gets to Speak and How?; Sheila Fisher 14. History, Frescoes, and Reading the Middle Ages: A Final Note; Martin Coyle Further Reading Index.

About the Author

Beatrice Fannon completed her doctorate at Cardiff University in 2012. Although primarily a Spenserian, her research interests extend to patristic literature and Christian theology, and medieval as well as Renaissance literature and the Reformation.