Table of Contents

Introduction: Rites of Passage - Miri Rubin
Re-writing a Rite of Passage: The Peculiar Funeral of Edward II - Joel Burden
Coming to Kingship: Boy Kings and the Passage to Power in Fourteenth-Century England - W. Mark Ormrod
Boy/Man into Clerk/Priest: The Making of the Late Medieval Clergy - P H Cullum
Manners Maketh Man: Living, Dining and Becoming a Man in the Later Middle Ages - Sharon Wells
Rites of Passage in French and English Romances - Helen Phillips
Becoming Woman in Chaucer: `On ne naît pas femme, on le meurt' - Jane Gilbert
John Gower's Fear of Flying: Transitional Masculinities in the Confessio Amantis -
`Le moment de conclure': Initiation as Retrospection in Froissart's Dits amoureux - H S Kay

About the Author

The late W. MARK ORMROD was Professor Emeritus of History at the University of York; he published extensively on later medieval history. JANE GILBERT is Professor of Medieval Literature and Critical Theory at University College London, UK. The late W. MARK ORMROD was Professor Emeritus of History at the University of York; he published extensively on later medieval history.