Prologue Speaking of the Medieval, Elaine Treharne Literary Production 1. Books and Manuscripts, A.S.G. Edwards 2. Textual Copying and Transmission, Orietta Da Rold 3. Professionalisation of Writing, Simon Horobin 4. Writing, Authority and Bureaucracy, Nicholas Perkins 5.
The Impact of Print, Elizabeth Evenden Literary Consumption 1. Literature and the Cultural Elites, Ralph Hanna 2. The Verse of Heroes, Jayne Carroll 3. Insular Romance, Sian Echard 4. A York Primer and its Alphabet: Reading Women in a Lay Household, Nicola McDonald 5. Performing Communities: Civic Religious Drama, John McGavin Literature, Clerical and Lay 1. Change and Continuity: The English Sermon before 1250, Bella Millett 2. Authorising Female Piety, Diane Watt 3.
Visions and Visionaries, Andy Galloway 4. Writing, Heresy, and the Anticlerical Muse, Mishtooni Bose 5. Acquiring Wisdom: teaching texts and the lore of the people, Dan Anlezark Literary Realities 1. The Yorkshire Partisans and the Literature of Popular Discontent, Andrew Prescott 2. Gothic Turn and the Twelfth-Century Chronicle, Tom Bredehoft 3. Antisocial Reform: Writing Rebellion, Stephen Kelly 4. Secular Drama, Elizabeth Dutton 5. Metaphorical and Real Flowers in Medieval Verse, Gillian Rudd Complex Identities 1.
Authority, Constraint and the Writing of the Medieval Self, Kathryn Kerby-Fulton 2. Complex Identities: Selves & Others, Kathy Lavezzo 3. Spiritual Identities: The Chosen People, Samantha Zacher 4. Individuality, Alcuin Blamires 5. Emergent Englishness, Jacqueline Stodnick Literary Place, Space and Time 1. Regions and Communities, Helen Fulton 2. The City and the Text: London Literature, Alison Wiggins 3. Provincial Reading Communities, Wendy Scase 4.
Scottish Writing, Elizabeth Elliott 5. Places of the Imagination: The Gawain -Poet, Thorlac Turville-Petre Literary Journeys 1. Pilgrimages, Travel Writing, and the Medieval Exotic, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen 2. 'Britain': Originary Myths and the Stories of Peoples, Anke Bernau 3. Maps and Margins: Other Lands, Other Peoples, Alfred Hiatt 4. Monsters and the Medieval Exotic, Asa Simon Mittman 5. Spiritual Quest and Social Space: Texts of Hard Travel for God on Earth and in the Heart, Mary Baine Campbell Epilogue When did 'The Medieval End?' Retrospection, Foresight and The End(s) of the English Middle Ages, Greg Walker Index of Manuscripts General Index.