Table of Contents

THE MIDDLE AGES.

Before the Norman Conquest.
Beowulf.The Táin Bó Cuailnge.The Pillow Talk.The Táin Begins.The Last Battle.Early Irish Verse.To Crinog.Pangur the Cat.Writing in the Wood.The Viking Terror.The Old Woman of Beare.Findabair Remembers Fróech.A Grave Marked with Ogam.From The Voyage of Máel Dúin.Judith.The Dream of the Rood.Perspectives: Ethnic and Religious Encounters.
Bede.From An Ecclesiastical History of the English People.Bishop Asser.From The Life of King Alfred.King Alfred.Preface to St. Gregory's Pastoral Care.Ohthere's Journeys.The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.Stamford Bridge and Hastings.Taliesin.Urien Yrechwydd.The Battle of Argoed Llwyfain.The War-Band's Return.Lament for Owain Son of Urien.The Wanderer.Wulf and Eadwacer and the Wife's Lament.Riddles.Three Anglo-Latin Riddles by Aldhelm.Five Old English Riddles.After the Norman Conquest.
Perspectives: Arthurian Myth in the History of Britain.
Geoffrey of Monmouth.From History of the Kings of Britain.Gerald of Wales.From The Instruction of Princes.Edward I.Letter to the Papal Court.Companion Reading.A Report to Edward I.Arthurian Romance.Marie de France.Lais.Prologue.Lanval.Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.Sir Thomas Malory.Morte Darthur.From Caxton's Prologue. The Miracle of Galahad.The Poisoned Apple.The Days of Destiny.Geoffrey Chaucer.The Parliament of Fowls.The Canterbury Tales.The General Prologue.The Miller's Tale.The Introduction.The Tale.The Wife of Bath's Prologue.The Wife of Bath's Tale.The Franklin's Tale.The Pardoner's Prologue.The Pardoner's Tale.The Nun's Priest's Tale.The Parson's Tale.The Introduction.From the Tale.The Remedy for the Sin of Lechery.To His Scribe Adam.Complaint to His Purse.William Langland.Piers Plowman.Prologue.Passus 2.*Passus 5.Passus 6.Passus 18.“Piers Plowman” and Its Time: The Rising of 1381.From The Anonimalle Chronicle.Three Poems on the Rising of 1381.John Ball's First Letter.John Ball's Second Letter.The Course of Revolt.John Gower.From The Voice of One Crying.Julian of Norwich.A Book of Showings.[Three Graces. Illness. The First Revolution.]*[Laughing at the Devil.][Christ Draws Julian in Through His Wound.][The Necessity of SIn, and of Hating Sin.][God as Father, Mother, Husband.]*[The Soul as Christ's Citadel.][The Meaning of the Visions Is Love.]Companion Readings.From The Fire of Love, Richard Rolle.From The Cloud of Unknowing.Medieval Cycle Dramas.The Second Play of the Shepherds.The York Play of the Crucifixion.Vernacular Religion and Repression.The Wycliffite Bible.John 10.11-18.From A Wycliffite Sermon.John Mirk.from Festial.From The Statute “On the Burning of Heretics.”Preaching and Teaching in the Vernacular.From The Holy Prophet David Saith.Nicholas Love.From The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus.From The Confession of Hawisia, Moone of Loddon.Margery Kempe.The Book of Margery Kempe.Preface.[Early Life and Temptations, Revelation, Desire for Foreign Pilgrimage.]*[Meeting with Bishop of Lincoln and Archbishop of Cantebury.][Visit with Julian of Norwich.][Pilgrimage of Jerusalem.]*[Arrest by Duke of Bedford's Men, Meeting with Archbishop of York.]Middle English Lyrics.The Cuckoo Song (“Sumer is icumen in”).Spring (“Lenten is come with love to toune”).Alisoun (“Bitwene Mersh and Averil”).I Have a Noble Cock.My Lief Is Faren in a Lond.Fowles in the Frith.Abuse of Women (“In every place ye may well see”).The Irish Dancer (“Gode sire, pray ich thee”).A Forsaken Maiden's Lament (“I lovede a child of this cuntree”).The Wily Clerk (“This enther day I mete a clerke”).Jolly Jankin (“As I went on Yol day in our procession”).Adam Lay Ibounden.I Sing of a Maiden.In Praise of Mary (“Edi be thu, Hevene Quene”).Mary Is With Child (“Under a tree”).Sweet Jesus King of Bliss.Now Goeth Sun under Wood.Jesus, My Sweet Lover (“Jesu Christ, my lemmon swete”).Contempt of the World (“Where beth they biforen us weren”).The Tale of Taliesin.Dafydd Ap Gwilym.Aubade.One Saving Place.The Girls of Llanbadarn.Tale of a Wayside Inn.The Hateful Husband.The Winter.The Ruin.Middle Scots Poets.William Dunbar.Lament for the Makers.Done is a Battell.In Secret Place This Hyndir Nycht.Robert Henryson.Robyne and Makyne.Late Medieval Allegory.John Lydgate.From Pilgrimage of the Life of Man.Mankind.Christine de Pisan.From Book of the City of Ladies.Political and Religious Orders.Money, Weights, and Measures.Glossary of Literary and Cultural Terms.Bibliographies.Credits.Index.