Abstract
Introduction 1. The context of medieval literature 2. Old English religious poetry 3. The Old English elegy: an historicization 4. 'Tell me what I am': the Old English riddles 5. Warring with words: Cynewulf's Juliana 6. Old English heroic literature 7. Beowulf: monuments, moments, history 8. History and memory in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 9. The persuasive power of Alfredian prose 10. Old English religious prose: rhetorics of salvation and damnation 11. Centralizing feminism in Anglo-Saxon Literary Studies: Elene, motherhood, and history 12. Wise words: Old English sapiental poetry 13. Middle English didactic literature 14. Middle English writings for women: Ancrene Wisse 15. The Middle English Brut chronicles 16. Earlier verse romance 17. Middle English debate literature 18. Religious writing by Women 19. The Gawain-poet 20. Middle English prologues 21. The Middle English lyrics 22. Medieval dream visions: Chaucer's Book of the Duchess 23. Late romance: Malory and the Tale of Balin 24. Scottish literature 25. Medieval drama: the Corpus Christi in York and Croxton
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