The Medieval Python: The Purposive and Provocative Work of Terry Jones

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-4
The Medieval Works of Terry Jones....Pages 5-11
Young Jones at Oxford, 1961–62....Pages 13-25
The Earl of Arundel, the War with France, and the Anger of King Richard II....Pages 27-38
Terry Jones’s Richard II....Pages 39-54
Terry Jones: The Complete Medievalist....Pages 55-58
Medieval Monks and Friars: Differing Literary Perceptions....Pages 59-73
Gower’s Manuscript of the Confessio Amantis....Pages 75-86
Gower in Winter: Last Poems....Pages 87-103
The Naughty Bits: Dating Chaucer’s House of Fame and Legend of Good Women ....Pages 105-117
 Honi soit qui mal y pense: Adultery and Anxieties about Paternity in Late Medieval England....Pages 119-135
Needy Knights And Wealthy Widows: The Encounters Of John Cornewall and Lettice Kirriel, 1378–1382....Pages 137-149
Making Medievalism: Teaching the Middle Ages through Film....Pages 151-165
The “Silly” Pacifism of Geoffrey Chaucer and Terry Jones....Pages 167-179
Legs and the Man: The History of a Medieval Motif....Pages 181-193
Chaucer, Langland, and the Hundred Year’s War....Pages 195-205
Jack and John: The Plowman’s Tale....Pages 207-213
A Prayer Roll Fit for a Tudor Prince....Pages 215-228
Macbeth and Malory in the 1625 Edition of Peter Heylyn’s Microcosmus: A Nearly Unfortunate Tale....Pages 229-239
Back Matter....Pages 241-265