Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Plates ix
4. Abbreviations x
5. Acknowledgments xi
6. Introduction 1
7. Urbanity, Obscenity, and the Hereford Affinities of Hue de Rotelande’s Ipomedon (ca. 1180) 8
8. Telling Tales: The “Song of the Muses” in Medieval Latin Commentaries on Ovid’s Metamorphoses 27
9. Ovid at St Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury: The Metamorphoses Paraphrase of John of London 45
10. Capaneus’s Atheism and Criseyde’s Reading in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde 67
11. John Gower and Chaucer’s Fabliaux 82
12. Shades of Gower: Latin Texts and Social Contexts 101
13. The Vox Revoiced in Gower’s Carmen super multiplici viciorum pestilencia 120
14. Gower, Grosseteste, and De lucis scrutinio 139
15. Compositos in compedibus: Scribal Panegyric in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B.214 157
16. Truly Martyred: Froissart on the Killing of Civilians 175
17. Power Games in the English Poetry of Charles of Orléans 192
18. The Porous Genres of Persuasion: A London Preacher and a Royal Advisor in the Fifteenth Century 210
19. Thomas Gascoigne on the Jews and the Apocalypse 224
20. “Vertu to purchace”: John Lydgate, John Whethamstede, and the First Specific Payment for Writing an English Poem 245
21. William of Malmesbury’s Vita Dunstani: The Dispute between Glastonbury and Canterbury over St Dunstan’s Relics 264
22. John Morton’s Feast and the Transmission of Bills of Fare in Late Medieval English Manuscripts and Printed Books 284
23. The Lineage of Books in Tudor Anglo-Spanish Relations 297
24. The Quest for Henry Bergen (1873–1950): The Life and Times of a Middle English Editor 318
25. Publications of David R. Carlson 334
26. Contributors 341
27. Index of Manuscripts 345
28. General Index 348