Writers, Editors and Exemplars in Medieval English Texts

Acknowledgments
Contents
Contributors
Abbreviations
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Introduction
	References
Part I: Middle English Clerks, Texts and Readers
	Chapter 2: Reading Dreams, Casting the Future and Other Learned Mirths: The Harley Scribe as Proto-Chaucerian Clerk
		2.1 Introduction
		2.2 Clerkly Lore and the Sciences of Prognostication
		Table 2.1: The Harley Scribe’s Library of Booklets
		2.3 Dreamlore and Chaucer’s Clerks
		2.4 Interpreting Dreams Across Genres: Early English Saints’ Lives
		2.5 Interpreting Dreams Across Genres: The Biblical Story of Joseph
		2.6 Interpreting Dreams Across Genres: The Romance of King Horn
		2.7 Conclusions
		References
			Manuscripts
			Primary Sources
			Secondary Sources
	Chapter 3: Griselda as Mary: Chaucer’s Clerk’s Tale and Alanus de Rupe’s Marian Exemplum
		3.1 Griselda as Mary: Chaucer’s Clerk’s Tale: Introduction
		3.2 Mary, Present and Absent: Chaucer’s Marian Grisildis as Failed Pietà
		3.3 Setting the Stages for Comedy and Tragedy
		3.4 Putting Virtue to the Test
		3.5 Happily Ever After?
		3.6 Three Marys
		Appendix: Alanus de Rupe’s Griselda Analogue: Annotation, Text, and Translation
			Introduction
			Ein exempel von einer kolerin
			“Mary, the Charcoaler’s Daughter”
		References
			Secondary Sources
	Chapter 4: On Chaucer’s Clerk, His Books and the Value of Education
		4.1 Introduction
		4.2 “Gladly wolde he teche”: Re-reading the Clerk
		4.3 “Hire Olde Coote”
		4.4 Conclusions (with a Heavy Dose of Editorial)
		References
			Manuscripts and Manuscript Descriptions
			Primary Sources
			Secondary Sources
	Chapter 5: Freedom and Choice: Postnuptial Negotiation, the Flitch of Bacon Custom, and the Woe of Marriage in The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale and The Book of Margery Kempe
		5.1 Introduction: The Road to Bridlington
		5.2 Marriage: Between Status and Contract
		5.3 The Bacon Flitch Custom and Medieval Wedding Vows
		5.4 Negotiating Marriage in The Wife of Bath’s Tale
		5.5 The Limits of Imagination in The Wife of Bath’s Prologue
		5.6 Conclusion: A Timeless and Timely Paradox
		References
			Manuscripts
			Primary Sources
			Secondary Sources
Part II: The Lollards, Their Saints and Their Texts
	Chapter 6: The Making of a Monumental Edition: The Holy Bible…The Earliest English Versions Made from the Latin Vulgate by John Wyclif and His Followers
		References
			Manuscripts
			Primary and Secondary Sources
	Chapter 7: Paratextual Frames for the Middle English Reader: The Additional Pauline Prologues in Cambridge, Emmanuel College MS 108, a Wycliffite New Testament
		7.1 Introduction
		7.2 The Glossa ordinaria as a Source
			7.2.1 Citation Formulae
			7.2.2 The Prologue Writers and Lombard’s magna glosatura
			7.2.3 Scheide MS 12
			7.2.4 Additional MS 15521
		7.3 Lyra and Other Textual Sources
		7.4 Framing the Pauline Text
		7.5 Conclusions
		References
			Manuscripts
			Editions and Translations
			Secondary Sources (Including Dictionaries and Databases)
	Chapter 8: Lollard Book Production and Richard Rolle’s English Psalter and Canticles
		8.1 Introduction
		8.2 The Orthodox-Heterodox Divide
		8.3 The Canticles
		8.4 The Manuscripts
		8.5 “Packaging” the Canticles
		References
			Manuscripts
			Primary Sources and Editions
			Secondary Sources
	Chapter 9: Blessed Hildegard: Another Kind of Lollard Saint
		Appendix 1: Transcription of Cambridge, Trinity College MS B.14.50, Fols. 67v–68r
		Appendix 2: Translation of Cambridge, Trinity College MS B.14.50, Fols. 67v–68r
		References
			Manuscripts
			Editions
			Secondary Sources
Part III: Old English and Its Afterlife
	Chapter 10: “In his heart he believed in God, but he could not speak like a man”: Martyrdom, Monstrosity, Speech and the Dog-Headed Saint Christopher
		References
			Primary Sources and Editions
			Secondary Sources
	Chapter 11: Hengist’s Tongue: Remembering (Old) English in John Gower’s Confessio Amantis
		11.1 Introduction
		11.2 The Riddle
		11.3 Language and History
		11.4 Memories of Carmentis
		11.5 Memories of Hengist
		11.6 The Work of the Riddle
		References
			Manuscripts
			Primary Sources and Edition
			Secondary Sources
	Chapter 12: The Failed Masculinities of Tostig Godwinson
		12.1 Introduction
		12.2 Masculinity Studies and Old English
		12.3 Tostig Godwinson: The Early Years
		12.4 Tostig’s 1065–1066 Collapse
		12.5 Conclusions
		References
			Manuscripts
			Editions and Primary Sources
			Secondary Sources
	Chapter 13: Elizabeth Elstob, Old English Law and the Origin of Anglo-Saxon Studies: A Critical Edition of Samuel Pegge’s “An Historical Account of … the Textus Roffensis” (1767)
		13.1 Introduction
		13.2 Editorial Conventions
		13.3 An Historical Account of That Venerable Monument of Antiquity the Textus Roffensis; Including Memoirs of the Learned Saxonists Mr. William Elstob and His Sister
		13.4 Editorial Notes and Commentary
		References
			Manuscripts
			Editions
			Secondary Texts
Index