Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. Tabula Gratulatoria IX
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I: Manuscripts and Meaning
7. Visualizing Susanna: Another Look at “The Pistel of Swete Susan” and Later Imagery in the Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries 17
8. Finding a Context for Gamelyn: Between Romance and Canterbury Tale 47
9. Wayward Maidens and Cuckold-Makers: Multilingual Female Lyric Voices in BL MS Egerton 3537 65
10. A Lydgate Anthology: The Codicological Vicissitudes of Rawlinson C.48 87
11. Part II: Honoring the Small Details
12. Making Sense of Anelida’s Complaint: The Fifteenth-Century Reception of Anelida and Arcite and its Stanza Forms 113
13. Pearl’s Rhymes 133
14. Pedagogy and the Proverbs of Hending 151
15. Part III: Fein’s Editions at Work
16. The Role of the Interpreter in the Estoyres de la Bible (British Library, MS Harley 2253) 179
17. Prediction, Prognosis, and the Efficacious Book 197
18. Writing Inclusively for Educated Women: Clerical Proletarian-Patroness Relationships and the Shaping of Audelay’s Poetry of Beatific Vision and Spiritual Intimacy 223
19. Susanna Fein’s Publications 257
20. List of Contributors 267
21. General Index 269
22. Manuscripts Index 275