Preface * Literary Map of Britain and Ireland * Introduction * Middle English Literature, The Middle English language *
The Twelfth Century
William the Conqueror (A Peterborough Chronicler) * The Anarchy of King Stephen (The Llast Peterborough Chronicler) * The Proverbs of Alfred * Poema Morale * The Brut (Lawman) * The Owl and the Nightingale: Holy Maidenhood
TheThirteenth Century
The Anchoreses'Rule * King Horn * The Bestiary * Judas * A Love Rune (Thomas of Hailes) * The Sayings of St. Bernard * The Fox and the Wolf * Dame Sirith * The land of Cokayne
The Early FourteenthCentury
Handling Sin (Robert Mannying) * Now Springs the Spray * The Five Joys of mary * Alysoun * Spring * April * Love in Paris * Sir Orfeo * Halidon Hill (Laurence Minot) * The Form of Living (Richard Rolle)
The Age of Chaucer
The Parliament of the Three Ages * Morte Arthure * The Burce (John Barbour) * Piers Plowman (william Langland) * The Pearl * Sir Gawain and the Green Knight * The Lover's Confession (John Gower) * The Wyclyfite Bible * A Defense of Translation (John Purvey[?]) * The Properties of Things (John de Trevisa) * Thomas of Erceldoun
The FifteenthCenturyThe Tale of Beryn * The Regiment of Princes (Thomas Hoccleve) * The Siege of Thebes (John Lydgate) * Christ and His Mother * St. Stephen and Herod * Robyn and Gandeleyn * The Blacksmiths
The ScottishREnaissance
The Testament of Cresseid (Robert Henryson) * The Dance of the Seven Deadly Sins (William Dunbar) * On the Resurrection of Christ (William Dunbar) * The Golden Targe (William Dunbar)